Carly Pope Biography

Carly Pope: Biography

Carly graduated high school in Vancouver in 1998. She also studied for one year at the University of British Columbia. She made her American acting debut with her role in the television movie, "I've Been Waiting For You." She landed the role of Sam McPherson on the 1999 WB series "Popular" after previously auditioning for the role of Popular girl Brooke McQueen.

She says that her first kiss was when she was 11 years old and it was sloppy.

Carly: Idealistically, I'd love to stay here and just be doing Canadian stuff. It's unfortunate when at the end of the day it's hard to make a living at it up here. I feel a necessity to find some financial stability and I don't want to have to leave the industry to do that. It's a struggle, but I'm happy to throw caution for a little while longer and see how it goes. And to be perfectly honest, I put myself in that proverbial safety net for a long time - I really did. Fortunately, I have a little jackknife and I tore a hole into it and now I'm getting out.(edit)
Carly: (On how she chooses her roles) I play a bit of a strategic game with choosing roles that might be educational, insightful, or inspiring. I try and find characters that represent what I would like to see on TV, being a little bit more open-minded, less stereotypical.(edit)
Carly: When I was younger, when I thought of myself as older, I would have these little flashes of fame, but then they would go away because it always seemed so far off.(edit)
Carly: It's a matter of knowing who you are and just keeping with that.(edit)
Carly: It's really, really frightening I might get typecast as this teenager in high school. That's one thing I really want to stay away from.(edit)
Carly: When I was younger I'd have these visions of how I'd be when I grew up, but they wouldn't last very long.(edit)
Carly: Good manners and respecting your elders, a sense of community, holding a conversation at a social event - that's how I grew up.(edit)
Carly: Acting was always an innate ambition, it was where I belonged.(edit)
Carly: I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime. I feel very manic right now, but I'm confident where I am.(edit)

Carly has a pet bull dog.(edit)
Carly says that if she weren't an actress, then she would most likely be a grade-school teacher.(edit)
Carly has modeled for Guess Jeans.(edit)
Carly has a piercing on her belly button.(edit)
In 2000, Carly ranked #42 in Stuff magazine's 100 Sexiest Women. (edit)
In the year 2000, Carly was nominated for a Teen Choice Award as Choice Actress for the TV series Popular.(edit)
As of 2007, Carly resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.(edit)
She is of Italian, Yugoslavian and Irish descent.(edit)
She is 5' 6" (1.68 m) in height.(edit)
Her nicknames are Carlita and Lita.(edit)
Carly and her Popular co-stars Tammy Lynn Michaels and Leslie Grossman starred in a film together entitled Itty Bitty T***y Committee. The film was released in 2007.(edit)
She was discovered by an agent while she was performing in an all-female Odd Couple.(edit)
She won the Best Supporting Actress Leo Award for The Collector in 2004. In 2006, she won another Leo Award this time for her performance in the short drama Sandra Gets Dumped.(edit)
She won the Women in Film & Video Vancouver's Artistic Merit Award for The Hamster Cage in 2005.(edit)
Her favourite movie is Labyrinth.(edit)
Her favourite book is Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.(edit)
Her favourite food is Japanese.(edit)
She plans to learn how to play the guitar.(edit)
She enjoys long walks, writing poetry, and constantly reading.(edit)
She often returns to Vancouver to spend time with her family, with whom she is close.(edit)
An agent saw her in a school stage production, which led to Carly's screen debut in an independent children's film, Cowboys and Aliens, on location in distant Eastern Europe.(edit)
She trained in dance until she entered Lord Byng Secondary School, when she began studying drama in an advanced program.(edit)
She found out the day after her high school graduation that she was going to Romania to shoot a feature film.(edit)
She speaks Italian, Spanish and French fluently, and is seeking to expand her education in literature and languages.(edit)
Splitting her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver, Carly is currently attending university when her filming schedule allows.(edit)
Discovered while still in high school, she quickly made the jump to television and film roles working opposite actors such as Sally Field and Chevy Chase.(edit)
Carly�s passion for acting began during her high school years in Vancouver when she appeared in stage classics such as The Odd Couple, playing Mickey, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, playing Titania.(edit)
Since Popular she has portrayed a heroin addict in Trapped in a Purple Haze, played opposite Leelee Sobieski in The Glass House, appeared in Jeff Probst�s Finder�s Fee, and in Orange County.
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Carly has an older brother named Kris Pope, who is an actor, and a younger brother named Alexander Pope.(edit)
She graduated from Lord Byng High School in Vancouver, Canada. She traveled to Hollywood six months later & immediately landed on WB network's Popular.(edit)
In the Popular episode, "Fire in the Hole," where all the characters have to perform the STD play that Ms. Glass wrote, Carly Pope displays her real life tap dancing and singing skills. (edit)
She's still really good friends with her Popular co-star Leslie Bibb.(edit)
Carly is represented by The Characters Talent Agency in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and The Gersh Agency in Beverly Hills, California.(edit)
She is friends with actor Brendan Fehr.(edit)
She auditioned for the role Elizabeth 'Liz' Parker on the WB's Roswell.(edit)
In 2001 she appeared in a TV commercial for Pepsi.(edit)