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Canadian actress (born 1979)

Jennifer Christina Finnigan (born August 22, 1979) is a Canadian actress, known for her role as Bridget Forrester in the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2000 to 2004, for which she won three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. She also appeared on the CBS legal drama Close to Home (2005–2007) and the ABC sitcom Better with You (2010–2011). Finnigan also starred on the FX series Tyrant (2014–2016). She later starred in the CBS sci fi drama Salvation (2017–2018).

Finnigan was born in Montreal, Quebec. She is the daughter of Diane Rioux Finnigan, and popular radio personality Jack Finnigan, who was a fixture on CJAD radio in Montreal from 1972 to 2005. She attended The Sacred Heart School of Montreal, a Catholic, all girl private school from which she graduated in 1996.

Finnigan married actor Jonathan Silverman on June 7, 2007, on the island of Mykonos in Greece. She and Silverman have a daughter, Ella Jack, born on September 29, 2017.

From 1998 to 2000, Finnigan appeared in a variety of Canadian shows. In 1998, she made a few guest appearances on "The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo". In early 1999, she appeared in one episode of "Big Wolf on Campus" and throughout the end of 1999, she starred in a sitcom called Student Bodies playing the role of Kim McCloud in the show's final season. Throughout the first half of 2000, she played the character "Tara" in the episode "The Tale of the Last Dance" in Season 7 of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, as well as making a guest appearance on La Femme Nikita.

In mid 2000, Finnigan moved to the United States and got the role of Bridget Forrester in the long running soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful in July 2000. In December 2000, she also starred in a true story in the telefilm The Stalking of Laurie Show about the real life murder of a young teenage girl. Finnigan starred as Bridget on The Bold and the Beautiful from July 2000 until January 2004 and won three awards for her work on the show. She is the first person to win three consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards (29th, 30th, 31st Awards), all as "Outstanding Younger Actress". She left the show in January 2004 to pursue other acting roles.

From March 2004 until November 2004, Finnigan was featured on 10 episodes of Crossing Jordan as pathologist Dr. Devan Maguire. Following her departure from the show, she played the character Marni Fliss on the NBC series Committed, which only aired for 13 episodes before being cancelled due to low ratings. The show aired from January until March 2005. In mid 2005, she made a guest appearance as Alex Sinclair in The Dead Zone episode "Double Vision".

Starting in the fall of 2005, Finnigan was the star of the CBS television drama series Close to Home, playing a deputy district attorney. In December 2005, while still starring in Close to Home, she made a second guest appearance as Alex Sinclair in the episode "A Very Dead Zone Christmas," on The Dead Zone. Close to Home aired for two seasons before it was cancelled in May 2007. In August 2007, Finnigan made one final guest appearance on The Dead Zone in the episode "Exile", just before the show ended in late 2007.

Finnigan co starred with her husband, actor Jonathan Silverman, in Beethoven's Big Break, the latest installment in the Beethoven film series; the film was released direct to DVD in late 2008. She also starred in Playing for Keeps, a CTV/Lifetime Original Movie, broadcast as What Color is Love? in the United States. Finnigan starred in the ABC sitcom Better with You, which was cancelled after only one season. She co starred alongside Jason Priestley in the Psych sixth season episode, "Neil Simon's Lover's Retreat". She has also done Shadow Island Mysteries: The Last Christmas and Shadow Island Mysteries: Wedding for One. In 2013, she starred on the TNT series Monday Mornings on which her real life husband Jonathan Silverman was a recurring cast member. The series was canceled after one season. She also starred on the FX series Tyrant, which began on June 24, 2014. Tyrant aired its final episode on September 7, 2016, after three seasons. She appeared as Grace Barrows, the Pentagon's press secretary, on the 2017 CBS action drama Salvation. Barrows was one of a few people initially informed when the Pentagon learned Earth will collide with an asteroid with potential extinction level destruction capacity. The series ran for two seasons. She starred on the 2021 Canadian comedy drama series Moonshine.

Year Title Role Notes1996My HometownSylviaEpisode: "I'll Recognize You"1998Christie SayersEpisodes: "The Egg Mystery", "The Itchy Shorts Mystery", "The Robot Mystery"1999Big Wolf on CampusVesperEpisode: "Muffy the Werewolf Slayer"1999–2000Student BodiesKim McCloudMain role (season 3)2000La Femme NikitaDoryEpisode: "There Are No Missions"2000Are You Afraid of the Dark?Tara MartinEpisode: "The Tale of the Last Dance"2000Laurie ShowTelevision film2000–2004Bridget ForresterRegular role2001Largo WinchTamara RossEpisode: "Cheap Thrills"2004Crossing JordanDr. Devan MaguireRecurring role (seasons 3–4), 10 episodes2005Alex SinclairEpisodes: "Double Vision", "A Very Dead Zone Christmas"2005CommittedMarni FlissMain role2005–2007Close to HomeAnnabeth ChaseMain role2007Alex SinclairEpisode: "Exile"2009Inside the BoxLauren ThomasTelevision film2009What Color Is Love?Nicole AlpernTelevision film2010Wedding for OneClaire La ForetTelevision film2010Claire La ForetTelevision film2010–2011Better with YouMadeleine "Maddie" PutneyMain role2011PsychBarbieEpisode: "Neil Simon's Lover's Retreat"2013Monday MorningsDr. Tina RidgewayMain role2013Baby SellersDet. Nic MorrisonTelevision film2014Wild CardEliza EvansEpisode: "The Pilot"2014–2016TyrantMollyMain role2015Angel of ChristmasSusanTelevision film2017Walking the DogKristieTelevision film2017–2018SalvationGrace BarrowsMain role2018Welcome to ChristmasMadison LaneTelevision film2021 presentMoonshineLidia BennettMain role