Келли Гиддиш: Биография и карьера актрисы

American actress (born 1980)

Kelli Marie Giddish (born April 13, 1980)

Giddish was born in Cumming, Georgia. She is the daughter of Charles and Nita Giddish, and she has a brother named Eli. Her paternal grandfather nudged her interest in acting along by taking her to the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. Her maternal grandmother was also very supportive of her interests. Giddish won a number of accolades in her youth. While at Forsyth Central, she was a member of their championship softball team and in 1998 she was the State Literary Champion for Girls Dramatic Interpretation. She graduated from the University of Evansville in Indiana, where she majored in theater performance. It was announced on May 18, 2009, that Fox had ordered Past Life to series, airing midseason 2010 at 9:00 PM EST on Tuesdays. It premiered on February 9, 2010, and was canceled on February 18. Giddish starred as the central character, U. S. Marshal Annie Frost, in the police procedural drama Chase, which premiered on NBC in fall 2010. Giddish received rave reviews for her ability to play the lead character in the series, but it was pulled in early February 2011. On April 6, 2011, NBC decided to air five new episodes of Chase on Saturday nights with the first beginning on April 23, 2011.

In January 2007, Giddish guest starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode "Outsider" as rape victim Kara Bawson. It was announced on June 27, 2011, that Giddish would join the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for its thirteenth season along with Cold Case Danny Pino coinciding with Christopher Meloni's departure from the series. Giddish told TV Guide during summer filming, "Everybody on the set is really excited and energized. They've lost a family member with Chris Meloni leaving, but they've been very accepting of us. Amanda is thrilled to be here working with these people, and so am I." Giddish made her debut as Detective Amanda Rollins in the 13th season premiere, "Scorched Earth", in which the character first works alongside Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay). In an interview with TV Guide, Giddish said about her character, "My character is in complete awe of Olivia, Amanda's really eager to get in there because she knows her stuff and really eager to learn. She has come from Atlanta and there was a ceiling there, so she's come up to New York." Giddish felt great about joining the series in its 13th season, "I couldn't feel better about it. There's no intimidation, what attracted me was the prospect of re invigorating a franchise that's been so well known and so well liked, and then to be the shaker and mover." Giddish expressed confidence that viewers would warm up to Rollins and another new character, Nick Amaro (Pino), with time. "They're going to love us because it's not being forced in their faces," she says. "The more you know about us and the more you see us in your living room, the more you're hopefully going to love us." At the end of Season 13 of Law & Order: SVU, she weighed in on her first season, and she said she and Pino received not only a "very warm welcome" from SVUs cast and crew, but saw their respective characters explored more than they could hope for in their first season. "They've given me a lot to work with — and I hope they give me more next season," says Giddish. "We're still playing 'musical chairs' in terms of partners, and that's a great way to go about exploring the different characters." On April 16, 2020, Giddish's character was promoted to 2nd grade class detective, in "Solving for the Unknowns". Giddish's final episode as a regular cast member was season 24, episode 9 ("And a Trauma in a Pear Tree") in which Rollins married ADA Dominick Carisi Jr. (Peter Scanavino) and resigned from the Special Victims Unit to accept an offer to teach at Fordham University. She returned as a special guest star in season 24, episode 22 ("All Pain Is One Malady"), season 25, episode 1 ("Tunnel Blind") and season 25, episode 11 ("Prima Nocta").

In 2011, Giddish appeared in the music video for "Nadine" by Project Jenny, Project Jan. In May 2018, Giddish appeared in the music video for “All Love is Lost” by Body Count, Giddish's SVU co star Ice T's band, from their 2017 album Bloodlust with Max Cavalera from Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy as a special guest.

Giddish married Lawrence Faulborn on June 20, 2015, in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Ludo, in October 2015. Giddish gave birth to the couple's second child, a son named Charlie, in November 2018. Giddish and Faulborn divorced in 2018. On November 7, 2021, Giddish married Beau Richards. Giddish gave birth to her third child, the couple's first, Oldie, in June 2023. All of her pregnancies were written into Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Year Title Role Notes2004–2007All My ChildrenElise BaylorRecurringDiana "Di" HenrySeries regular2006–2009CourtneyWeb series, 13 episodes2007DamagesHeather MacDonaldEpisodes: "Sort of Like a Family", "Because I Know Patty"Law & Order: Criminal IntentDana StipeEpisode: "Depths"2007, 2011–2023, 2024Law & Order: Special Victims UnitKara BawsonEpisode: "Outsider"Det. Amanda RollinsSeries regular (seasons 13 24); Guest star (season 25)2008All's FaireCindyWeb seriesWithout a TraceAriana MurphyEpisode: "Rise and Fall"2009Life on MarsCarolEpisode: "Coffee, Tea or Annie"2010Past LifeDr. Kate McGinnSeries regular, 9 episodes2010–2011ChaseAnnie FrostSeries regular, 18 episodes2011, 2014The Good WifeSophia RussoEpisodes: "Getting Off", "Closing Arguments", "A New Day" & "The Line"2014Chicago FireDet. Amanda RollinsEpisode: "Nobody Touches Anything" 2014–2015Chicago P. D. Episodes: "Conventions", "They'll Have to Go Through Me" & "The Number of Rats"2022–2023Law & Order: Organized CrimeEpisodes: "Gimme Shelter – Part One", "Behind Blue Eyes" & "With Many Names"2022Law & OrderEpisode: "Gimme Shelter – Part Three"