Bonnie Somerville

Bonnie Somerville

Born: February 24, 1974
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Bonnie was raised by her mother, and her mother's large Irish Catholic family in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her mother is one of 9 children! Bonnie started acting and singing at a young age, appearing in all the high school plays at Poly Prep Country Day School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. She attended Boston College as a Musical Theater major, and left to move back home to New York to try acting professionally. Bonnie sang in many bands in the NYC music scene, and had a development deal to sing her own music at 17 years old. She was noticed by a modeling scout while waiting tables in NYC, and did some modeling in New York, and Europe, only to return more focused on acting. She packed her bags and moved to Los Angeles at age 22, very quickly had a band and then an agent. One of her first auditions, after getting an agent, was for the lead role in CBS's mini-series, Amours et rock'n' roll (1999), in which she also sang. She now lives in Los Angeles.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Mel Mckeon

Movies for Bonnie Somerville...

Nash Bridges
Title: Nash Bridges
Character: Christina Hunter
Released: November 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Nash Bridges continues to run San Francisco's SIU in 2020 while confronting a changing city, a new boss, and a world in which police work focuses on modern data-crunching and predictive policing. Although the world around him has changed, Nash hasn't.
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Title: Heels
Character: Vicky Rabies
Released: August 15, 2021
Type: TV
In a close-knit Georgia community, a family-owned wrestling promotion finds two brothers and rivals war over their late father’s legacy. In the ring, somebody must play the good guy and somebody must play their nemesis, the heel. But in the real world, those characters can be hard to live up to (and just as hard to leave behind).
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Love You Like Christmas
Title: Love You Like Christmas
Character: Maddie Duncan
Released: December 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Maddie, a high-powered marketing executive, is on her way to a client’s wedding but her plans are derailed by car trouble. When a fork in the road leads her to Christmas Valley, a town in love with Christmas, an unexpected encounter and a group of strangers that start to feel like family will have her questioning what she’s really been missing in life.
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Pup Star
Title: Pup Star
Character: Emily Rose (voice)
Released: August 30, 2016
Type: Movie
A Yorkshire Terrier, competing in a televised singing competition, is separated from her owner by an opportunist dog pound worker.
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Pearly Gates
Title: Pearly Gates
Character: Sharon
Released: April 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Pearly Gates is a story about wanting to be remembered, and knowing that long after death, a person can live on through the memories of family, friends associates and even strangers whose lives that person touched.
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The Prince
Title: The Prince
Character: Susan
Released: August 22, 2014
Type: Movie
A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.
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Mom's Day Away
Title: Mom's Day Away
Character: Laura Miller
Released: May 11, 2014
Type: Movie
A frustrated stay-at-home mom takes a weekend away when her family ignores her over Mother's Day.
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Title: Golden Boy
Character: Detective Deb McKenzie
Released: February 26, 2013
Type: TV
Golden Boy is an American crime drama series created by Nicholas Wootton, which is produced by Berlanti Television and Warner Bros. Television. CBS placed a series order on May 13, 2012. The series ran on CBS from February 26 to May 14, 2013 and aired Tuesdays at 10:00 pm ET. On May 10, 2013, CBS canceled the series after one season.
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Title: Motive
Character: Erica Grey
Released: February 3, 2013
Type: TV
A team of Vancouver investigators, led by homicide detective Angie Flynn, sets out to uncover the motive of each puzzling murder by discovering the killer's connection to the victim. Viewers get a glimpse of the killer before and after the crime is committed.
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Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
Title: Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
Character: Mrs. Paws (voice)
Released: November 20, 2012
Type: Movie
An all-new Disney holiday classic is born - Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups. Starring a brand-new litter of the cutest talking pups ever - Hope, Jingle, Charity, and Noble - it's perfect for the whole family. When Mrs. Claus travels to Pineville, the playful Santa Pups stow away on her sled. Taking mischief to a whole new level, they begin granting joyful wishes to Pineville's boys and girls, but something goes terribly wrong - the Christmas spirit begins to disappear. Now the Santa Pups and Mrs. Claus must race to save Christmas around the world. From the creators of Disney Buddies, this magical, heartwarming tale is brimming with hope, cheer, and Christmas spirit.
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Fire with Fire
Title: Fire with Fire
Character: Karen Westlake
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
A fireman takes an unexpected course of action when a man whom he's been ordered to testify against—after being held up at a local convenience store—threatens him.
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7 Below
Title: 7 Below
Character: Brooklyn
Released: April 16, 2012
Type: Movie
A group of strangers is trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
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Treasure Buddies
Title: Treasure Buddies
Character: Mala (voice)
Released: January 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Disney's irresistible talking puppies are back in an all-new movie that takes them halfway across the world to the ruins of ancient Egypt. With the help of some exotic new friends, this epic adventure is a treasure trove of pure Buddy fun. In a race against a devious cat, the Buddies and their new friends, Cammy and Babi, must avoid booby traps, solve puzzles and explore a mysterious tomb - all in search of the greatest treasure known to animalkind!
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Holiday Engagement
Title: Holiday Engagement
Character: Hillary Burns
Released: November 28, 2011
Type: Movie
Thirty-something Hillary Burns has spent her life trying to get the approval of her parents, in the shadow of her more successfully-attached siblings. So when Hillary's fiance, workaholic lawyer Jason King, dumps her because she isn't willing to relocate for his potential promotion, she panics because she had been promising to bring him home to meet her expectant family, whom she does not want to let down! As a last-minute idea, her best friend Sophie convinces her to actually hire someone to "play the role" of Jason for her return home on Thanksgiving.. leading to an interesting combination of sparks & revelations for all involved.
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The Best and the Brightest
Title: The Best and the Brightest
Character: Samantha
Released: October 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Set in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens, The Best and the Brightest centers on a fresh-faced young couple, Samantha and Jeff, who have only recently moved into town. The comedy centers on their dawning realization of the lengths they must go to in order to get their five-year-old daughter into school.
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The Search for Santa Paws
Title: The Search for Santa Paws
Character: Kate Huckle
Released: October 12, 2010
Type: Movie
In the tradition of disney's classic holiday tales comes a heartwarming movie about the power of giving and the true meaning of christmas. Discover how the legendary friendship of Santa Claus and Santa Paws began in the inspiring original film, The Search For Santa Paws. When Santa and his new best friend, Paws, discover that the boys and girls of the world have lost the spirit of the season, they take a trip to New York City. But after Santa loses his memory, it's up to Paws, a faithful orphan named Quinn, her new friend Will, and a wonderful group of magical talking dogs to save St. Nick and show the world what Christmas is really all about.
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Title: Blue Bloods
Character: Paula Hill
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.
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The Ugly Truth
Title: The Ugly Truth
Character: Elizabeth
Released: July 24, 2009
Type: Movie
A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.
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Labor Pains
Title: Labor Pains
Character: Suzie Cavandish
Released: June 19, 2009
Type: Movie
A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her a bunch of special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months.
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Nobody
Title: Nobody
Character: Fiona
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Lindeman, 25-year-old art student, struggles to find his inspiration, finding himself in one ridiculous situation after the other.
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Band from TV: Hoggin' All the Covers
Title: Band from TV: Hoggin' All the Covers
Character: Self
Released: October 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Band from TV is a charity cover band whose members are all actors from American television series. They donate the proceeds of their performances and recordings to the charities of their choice.
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Shades of Ray
Title: Shades of Ray
Character: Noel Wilson
Released: October 18, 2008
Type: Movie
American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who hasn't given him an answer. While trying to get his parents back together, Ray meets a South Asian girl of mixed descent, just like him, and must decide where his identity truly lies.
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Title: Gary Unmarried
Released: September 24, 2008
Type: TV
A recently divorced couple shares custody of their two children while starting new relationships.
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Title: The Mentalist
Character: Eve Mulberry
Released: September 23, 2008
Type: TV
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
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Title: Cashmere Mafia
Character: Caitlin Dowd
Released: January 6, 2008
Type: TV
Four ambitious and sexy women, who've been best friends since business school, try to balance their glamorous and demanding careers with their complex personal lives in the city that never sleeps. They've created their own "boys club" to protect each other and discuss their ups and downs as they try to have it all. What good is it to break the glass ceiling without girlfriends to share in your success?
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Wedding Wars
Title: Wedding Wars
Character: Maggie Welling
Released: December 11, 2006
Type: Movie
In the midst of organizing his brother Ben's wedding, Shel, a gay party planner, decides to go on strike for equal rights when he learns that Ben is behind a political speech against gay marriage.
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Title: Kitchen Confidential
Character: Mimi
Released: September 19, 2005
Type: TV
Jack Bourdain had it all but messed it up going wild. Four years later, he ends up with a crappy job in Pizza Chain. Then, he gets an offer to get back in the game as the chef of a famous restaurant.
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Without a Paddle
Title: Without a Paddle
Character: Denise
Released: August 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details on a quest their friend was attempting. It revealed that he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 that went missing with airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. They decide to continue his journey, but do not understand the dangers they will soon encounter.
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Spider-Man 2
Title: Spider-Man 2
Character: Screaming Woman (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...
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Title: The O.C.
Character: Rachel Hoffman
Released: August 5, 2003
Type: TV
Ryan Atwood, a teen from the wrong side of the tracks, moves in with a wealthy family willing to give him a chance. But Ryan's arrival disturbs the status quo of the affluent, privileged community of Newport Beach, California.
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Title: In-Laws
Character: Alex Pellet Landis
Released: September 24, 2002
Type: TV
In-Laws is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 2002 until January 2003. Newlyweds Matt and Alex move in with her parents, Victor and Marlene, to save money so Matt can attend cooking school, thus beginning a fight to the death between son and father-in-law over the affections of Daddy's little girl.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Donna Saicheck
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: TV
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.
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Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
Title: Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
Character: Julie Proudfit
Released: November 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Insurance agent Hutch Rimes spends a lot of time at the Sleep Easy Hotel, taking long lurid lunch breaks with a string of sexy secretaries who he hires for their "special talents". Ten years ago, one of his office honeys tried to get him to kill her abusive husband. The plan backfired when the hubby killed her by mistake, got sent up the river, and lucky Hutch made a fortune buying off a piece of his ranch. But now it's trouble time -- there's a stalker in the suburbs who wants Hutch dead. Is it the cold-blooded killer just out of jail, the jealous husband of his latest fling, or another psycho enemy he's made along the way? Steven Weber (Wings), Swoosie Kurts (Sisters) and Gail O'Grady (NYPD Blue) star in this hilariously sinister thriller that proves the worst thing in life can also be the funniest.
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Bedazzled
Title: Bedazzled
Character: Girl at Beer Garden
Released: October 19, 2000
Type: Movie
Elliot Richards, a socially awkward IT worker, is given seven wishes to get the girl of his dreams when he meets a very seductive Satan. The catch: his soul. Some of his wishes include being a 7 foot basketball star, a wealthy, powerful man, and a sensitive caring guy. But, as could be expected, the Devil puts her own little twist on each of his fantasies.
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Title: Grosse Pointe
Character: Laura Johnson
Released: September 22, 2000
Type: TV
Grosse Pointe is an American television parody series which aired on the WB Network during the 2000–2001 television season. Created by Darren Star, it was a satire depicting the behind-the-scenes drama on the set of a television show, and was inspired in large part by Star's experiences as the creator and producer of the nighttime soap Beverly Hills, 90210.
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Title: Grosse Pointe
Character: Courtney Scott
Released: September 22, 2000
Type: TV
Grosse Pointe is an American television parody series which aired on the WB Network during the 2000–2001 television season. Created by Darren Star, it was a satire depicting the behind-the-scenes drama on the set of a television show, and was inspired in large part by Star's experiences as the creator and producer of the nighttime soap Beverly Hills, 90210.
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Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
Title: Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
Character: Stuck Up Girl
Released: August 25, 2000
Type: Movie
At school, Roseanne is the object of fellow student Vincent's infatuation. By night, she deals with a troubled family life: her mother, Maggie, cheats on her drunken husband, Fred. When Maggie's adultery is revealed, Fred viciously takes his anger out on stepdaughter Roseanne. With the help of her boyfriend, Jimmy, Maggie plots her revenge, but Vincent might be the one to help her forge a new life in this contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment".
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Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
Title: Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
Character: Lyne Danner
Released: November 7, 1999
Type: Movie
A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Heidi Sorenson
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Friends
Character: Mona
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
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Title: NYPD Blue
Character: Laura Murphy
Released: September 21, 1993
Type: TV
Police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwined several plots involving an ensemble cast.
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Title: Beverly Hills, 90210
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Sarah Richardson
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.