Carly Pope

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Recent Role:
Lucinda Pearl on Outlaw
Gender:
Female
Born:
8-28-1980
Birthplace:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Birth Name:
Carly Pope
AKA:
Carlita, Lita
Canadian film and television actress Carly Pope has had success early on in her career starring as Samantha McPherson in WB's high school drama Popular. After the show lasted for only two full seasons, Pope has gone on to star in numerous films and television movies both in the US and in Canada. The Vancouver native was mainly into dance during her childhood and shifted only to acting when she stepped on the theater stage in high school. As a teen, she gained experience and confidence with her performancesMore in productions like The Odd Couple (as Mickey) and Midsummer Night's Dream (as Titania). This also led to her discovery by talent agents who immediately booked her for auditions in films and television shows in Vancouver and Los Angeles, California.



In 1998, barely out of high school, she played the role of a cheerleader in the horror flick I've Been Waiting for You starring Soleil Moon Frye and fellow Canuck Sarah Chalke. That year, she did another suspense thriller, Disturbing Behavior, alongside James Marsden and Dawson's Creek's Katie Holmes. She then went back to Canada and attended the University of British Columbia for a semester. Not long after, Carly landed the role of Sam McPherson on WB's Popular, which prompted her return to Los Angeles. Besides the critical acclaim received by the show, Pope herself was recognized by the viewing public for her portrayal of the queen of the school geeks Sam as she earned a TV Choice Actress nomination in the 2000 Teen Choice Awards.



As the window of fame in Popular shut, doors opened for Carly in the film industry, working in over a dozen films in the next five years. Among the actors she has worked with are James Earl Jones and Ryan Reynolds in Finder's Fee (2001), Leelee Sobieski and Diane Lane in The Glass House (2001), Chevy Chase and Jack Black in Orange County (2002), and Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey in Two for the Money (2005). In 2007, she reappeared on the small screen with her recurring role as the drug-dealing lesbian Garbo on the FX drama Dirt, which was supposedly the TV comeback vehicle of Courteney Cox after Friends. The following year, Carly starred as Samantha Roth, the girlfriend of the US President's murdered son, in 24: Redemption, the made-for-TV movie preamble to the 7th season of the action-suspense hit series 24. In 2009, Pope was cast as one the survivors of a meteor storm tasked to rebuild civilization on NBC's Day One.

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    Her role in Dirt was so risky but cool. hide show

    I liked her in Dirt and most recetly in The 4400! She is really buding as an actor. I would like to see her in more shows, or in her own show! I'd watch it!!!!!!! Or at least make her a regular on Dirt!!!!!!!!!!!! Carly is an awsome actor and someone at the top of my lists of favorite actors!!!!

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    Carly Pope Needs to be in more shows! hide show

    Carly Pope is my all time favorite actoress, she's my idol and I'd love to just like her. I think she needs to be in more shows. She's amazingly talented and gorgeious!!! I think her work in Dirt is fanastic but it's over shadowed by her AMAZING work in "Popular". She played Sam Mcpherson my all time favorite tv character. She was great funny, smart, pretty and was like hero, I think of her character as a crime fighter who trys to some the school for the evil popular crowd ( laugh out laud ) even though she had moments where she lost herself she was still great and come on I mean who dosen't have their ups and downs?

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    stands out in every thing!!! hide show


    She has a different style of acting that makes watching what ever she is on more enjoyable. She played the character Sam on the WB series popular. She played one of the most the enjoyable characters on the show. Practically the whole first season of the show was based around the Brooke and Sam war. She played my favorite characters on the show and I hope to see her in more staring roles because she is so talented and she is very funny. I’m glad they cast her as Sam on the show because it made the show great.

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    Carly Pope did a wonderful job in the TV movie hide show

    Carly Pope did a wonderful job in the TV movie Trapped in a Purple Haze, even if her part was small and her character died in the end. She was my favorite actor from the TV show Popular. The show was so quirky and Carly did an amazing job of playing Sam. She was able to portray Sam's vulnerability and attitude all at the same time.

    I wish that she could get some better roles. She has been doing a lot of acting but mostly in Canadian TV movies. She deserves another shot at great teevision role.

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    10 Perfect
    Sadly underrated. hide show

    Carly Pope is more than just a pretty face, and that is something that's becoming increasingly rare these days. She's only in her mid 20's and still fairly new to acting, yet she has talent comparable to actresses twice her age who have been doing this their whole lives. Nothing seems to throw her for a loop. Comedy? She's hilarious with impeccable comedic timing. Drama? The raw emotion in her eyes can make you feel exactly what her character's feeling.

    She demands attention every second she's on screen. She has an uncanny ability to do an amazing job with whatever she's given. Anyone who has seen her work knows that she becomes her character...and that is the mark of someone with a true gift. It's a shame she doesn't grace our screens more often.

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