
Shiri Appleby
Highest Rated: 92% The Devil's Candy (2015)
Lowest Rated: 15% What Love Is (2006)
Birthday: Dec 7, 1978
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
A pretty brunette player with a charming freshness and likability, Shiri Appleby racked up a number of television credits before landing the role of Liz Parker, a teenage girl who is miraculously healed of a gunshot wound by a smitten classmate who confesses he is really an alien, on The WB sci-fi teen drama "Roswell." Appleby got her start in commercials at age four and from there landed her first series acting job, a recurring part on the NBC daytime drama "Santa Barbara" in 1985. Two years later the child performer made her TV-movie debut, with an appearance in NBC's "Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife" and could be seen in the following year's CBS drama "Go Toward the Light," about a young boy who contracts AIDS through a blood transfusion. Appleby made her big screen debut in the forgettable "Curse II: The Bite" (1989) the same year she was featured in the short-lived NBC sitcom "Knight & Daye." In 1990, the young actress appeared in Lawrence Kasdan's comedy "I Love You to Death" before landing a regular role on the Norman Lear comedy "Sunday Dinner" (CBS, 1991). The series' brevity (airing only six episodes) failed to make the show a substantial vehicle for the actress' breakthrough. In 1992, Appleby was featured in the USA Network movie "Perfect Family" and was a frequent guest performer, playing teens on series ranging from the popular "Doogie Howser, M.D." (ABC) to the all but forgotten "Against the Grain" (NBC). She returned to films with a featured part in "Family Prayers" (1993), playing the potential girlfriend of a young Jewish boy in this 1969-set coming-of-age drama.






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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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55% | 34% | Lemon | Ruthie (Character) | $29.1K | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Entanglement | Violet Novak (Character) | - | 2016 |
92% | 65% | The Devil's Candy | Astrid Hellman (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 29% | All American Christmas Carol | Pam (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Kristin's Christmas Past | Kristin (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 45% | Unstable | Megan Walker (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To Love & Die | Hildy Young (Character) | - | 2008 |
82% | 73% | Charlie Wilson's War | Charlie's Angel (Character) | $66.6M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 32% | The Killing Floor | Rebecca Fay (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Thrill of the Kill | Kelly Holden (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 29% | I See You.com | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
15% | 55% | What Love Is | Debbie (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Pizza My Heart | Gina Prestolani (Character) | - | 2005 |
42% | 69% | When Do We Eat? | Nikki (Character) | $428.4K | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Everything You Want | Abby Morrison (Character) | - | 2005 |
45% | 36% | Havoc | Amanda (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 32% | Darklight |
Lilith/ |
- | 2004 |
54% | 61% | Undertow | Violet (Character) | $124.2K | 2004 |
39% | 48% | The Battle of Shaker Heights | Sarah (Character) | $279.3K | 2003 |
15% | 32% | Swimfan | Amy (Character) | $28.6M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 75% | A Time for Dancing | Samantha "Sam" Russell (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 14% | Deal of a Lifetime | Laurie Petler (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Prayers | Nina (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perfect Family | Steff (Character) | - | 1992 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | 54% | New Amsterdam | Director | 2021-2022 |
No Score Yet | 79% | Young Sheldon | Director | 2022 |
100% | 72% | Queens | Director | 2021 |
96% | 54% | The Wonder Years | Director | 2021 |
76% | 60% | mixed-ish | Director | 2020-2021 |
77% | 57% | Roswell, New Mexico | Director | 2019-2020 |
50% | 80% | Light as a Feather | Director | 2019 |
78% | 89% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Kitty Bennett (Guest Star) | 2013 2019 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Hollywood Game Night | Guest | 2017-2018 |
81% | 84% | UnREAL |
Rachel Goldberg (Character), Director |
2015-2016 2018 |
No Score Yet | 59% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 6% | The View | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 0% | The Talk | Guest | 2015-2016 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Code Black | Carla Niven (Guest Star) | 2015-2016 |
No Score Yet | 84% | Project Runway | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 24% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2015 |
95% | 88% | Elementary | Dalit Zirin (Guest Star) | 2014 |
89% | 76% | Girls | Natalia (Guest Star) | 2013-2014 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Chicago Fire | Clarice (Guest Star) | 2012-2013 |
61% | 91% | Franklin & Bash | Emily Adams (Guest Star) | 2012 |
94% | 76% | Royal Pains | Stella (Guest Star) | 2011 |
71% | 73% | Life Unexpected | Cate Cassidy (Character) | 2010-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bonnie Hunt Show | Guest | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 84% | ER | Dr. Daria Wade (Guest Star) | 2008-2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fear Itself | Unknown (Character) | 2008 |
35% | No Score Yet | Welcome to the Captain | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
42% | 0% | Six Degrees | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006-2007 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Roswell | Liz Parker (Character) | 1999-2002 |
No Score Yet | 93% | Beverly Hills, 90210 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 79% | Xena | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | City Guys | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sunday Dinner | Unknown (Character) | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 0% | Who's the Boss? | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 |
83% | No Score Yet | thirtysomething | Little Hope (Guest Star) | 1987 |