Carly Pope
Encyclopedia
Early life
Pope was born and raised in VancouverVancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, with an older brother, Kris
Kris Pope
Kris Pope is a Canadian film and television actor.-Early life:He was born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a younger sister Carly Pope — who became an actress — and a younger brother...
, also an actor, and a younger brother, Alexander. She began acting during her high school years in Vancouver where she appeared in stage classics such as The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple is a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing and...
, playing Mickey, and A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
, playing Titania. She attended high school at Lord Byng Secondary School near the University of British Columbia campus, along with classmate Cobie Smulders
Cobie Smulders
Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders is a Canadian actress and former model, known for her role as Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother.-Early life:...
.
Career
Pope started her career with several small roles, such as Disturbing BehaviorDisturbing Behavior
Disturbing Behavior is a 1998 thriller science fiction film starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes, and Nick Stahl. The film was released on July 24, 1998. The plot follows a group of high school outcasts who are horrified by their "Blue Ribbon" classmates...
, Snow Day, and Night Man
Night Man
Night Man is an American action/adventure/sci-fi series that aired in syndication from September 15, 1997 to May 17, 1999. The series is loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and was created by Steve Englehart and developed for television by Glen A...
, before being cast as Sam McPherson on the WB's high-school drama Popular
Popular (TV series)
Popular is an American teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to...
. After the show ended, Pope had several roles in film and television, including The Glass House
The Glass House (film)
The Glass House is a 2001 film directed by Daniel Sackheim and written by Wesley Strick.-Plot:Sixteen-year-old Ruby and eleven-year-old Rhett lose their parents in a car accident...
, Jeff Probst
Jeff Probst
Jeffrey Lee "Jeff" Probst is an American game show host, executive producer and a reporter. He is best known as the host of the U.S. version of the reality show Survivor.-Biography:...
's Finder's Fee
Finder's Fee
Finder's Fee is an American film directed by Jeff Probst from his original screenplay. The story is based on an actual event that occurred to Probst.-Plot:...
, and Orange County
Orange County (film)
Orange County is a 2002 American comedy film starring Colin Hanks and Jack Black. It was released on January 11, 2002. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films and Scott Rudin. The movie was directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Mike White.-Plot:Shaun Brumder is a...
. In 2004 she had starred as Maya Kandinski in The Collector
The Collector (TV series)
The Collector is a Canadian Supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil...
. In 2005 she was a guest-star in an episode of FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
's Tru Calling
Tru Calling
Tru Calling is an American television supernatural drama series that premiered on Fox Network on October 30, 2003. It ran for two seasons before being canceled....
and played an aspiring social worker in the film Eighteen
Eighteen (film)
Eighteen is a Canadian 2005 dramatic feature film written and directed by Richard Bell.-Plot:The film follows Pip, a street kid who's meeting life head-on in the big city. On his eighteenth birthday he receives his grandfather's Second World War memoirs on audio cassette, a gift that awakens the...
.
In 2007, Pope starred in the Power Up project Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Itty Bitty Titty Committee is a feminist, lesbian-related comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit. It was released on 28 September 2007.The film had its premiere at the international film festival Berlinale on 9 February 2007, where it was nominated for a Teddy Award for Best Feature...
. and in Martin Gero
Martin Gero
Martin Gero is a Canadian screenwriter and co-executive producer for Stargate Atlantis.Born in Switzerland, Gero spent much of his childhood in Ottawa, Ontario. He attended Canterbury High School for the Arts and Ryerson University in Toronto...
's intelligent sex comedy and Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
hit, Young People Fucking
Young People Fucking
Young People Fucking, also called Y.P.F., is a 2007 romantic comedy directed, written and produced by Martin Gero and Aaron Abrams. It debuted at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. "Our generation makes an effort to separate love and sex," says Gero. "They're all trying to do this thing,...
. In 2009, she appeared in FOX's
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
hit thriller, 24
24 (TV series)
24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...
, as Samantha Roth.
Pope joined the main cast of the short lived NBC courtroom drama series Outlaw
Outlaw (TV series)
Outlaw is an American television series that was aired on the NBC network. The one-hour courtroom drama stars Jimmy Smits as a Supreme Court Justice who resigns from the bench to start his own law firm, as a way to more directly promote the ends of justice...
in 2010.
Personal life
Splitting her time between Los AngelesLos Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
and Vancouver Pope is currently attending university when her filming schedule allows. She speaks Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
and French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
fluently and is seeking to expand her education in literature and languages.
On December 29, 2009, Pope and her brother, Kris Pope
Kris Pope
Kris Pope is a Canadian film and television actor.-Early life:He was born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a younger sister Carly Pope — who became an actress — and a younger brother...
were driving a black BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
down West Georgia Street
Georgia Street
Georgia Street is an east-west street in the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Its section in Downtown Vancouver, designated West Georgia Street, serves as one of the primary streets for the financial and central business districts, and is the major transportation corridor...
in Downtown Vancouver when David Fromradas, 31, of Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
jumped on top of the car and yelled at them to run him over. When Kris got out of the car, Fromradas jumped in the front seat and drove the vehicle into the new CBC studios. Pope suffered a broken rib, and two cracked vertabrae, Kris suffered severe injuries to his ankle along with another victim who was a passerby.
Awards and nominations
- 2000 - Nominated for a Teen Choice Award at the Teen Choice AwardsTeen Choice AwardsThe Teen Choice Awards, are an annual awards show that air on the Fox cable channel, that honor the year's biggest biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, voted by teen viewers aged 14 through 17. Winners receive an authentic full size surfboard designed with...
for TV - Choice Actress for PopularPopular (TV series)Popular is an American teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to...
(1999) - 2004 - Won a Leo at the Leo AwardsLeo AwardsThe Leo Awards are the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry, celebrating excellence in artistic achievement. Held each May in Vancouver, Canada, the Leo Awards honour nominees and winners in 13 program categories and up to 19 craft categories...
for Dramatic Series: Best Supporting Performance by a Female for The CollectorThe Collector (TV series)The Collector is a Canadian Supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil...
(2004), for episode "The Prosecutor" - 2005 - Won a Leo at the Leo AwardsLeo AwardsThe Leo Awards are the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry, celebrating excellence in artistic achievement. Held each May in Vancouver, Canada, the Leo Awards honour nominees and winners in 13 program categories and up to 19 craft categories...
for Best Performance by a Female in a Short Drama for Sandra Gets Dumped (2005) - 2005 - Won a Women in Film & Video Vancouver's Artistic Merit Award for The Hamster Cage (2005)
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Short film | ||
| 1998 | Disturbing Behavior | Abbey | |
| 2000 | Snow Day | Fawn | |
| 2001 | Finder's Fee Finder's Fee Finder's Fee is an American film directed by Jeff Probst from his original screenplay. The story is based on an actual event that occurred to Probst.-Plot:... |
Carla | |
| 2001 | Tasha | ||
| 2002 | Orange County Orange County (film) Orange County is a 2002 American comedy film starring Colin Hanks and Jack Black. It was released on January 11, 2002. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films and Scott Rudin. The movie was directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Mike White.-Plot:Shaun Brumder is a... |
Tanya | |
| 2002 | Various Positions Various Positions (film) Various Positions is a film by Vancouver, BC, lawyer and filmmaker Ori Kowarsky, starring Carly Pope and Tygh Runyan. Various Positions won the 2002 Prix de Montréal at the Montreal World Film Festival... |
Cheryth Bleyn | |
| 2003 | Nemesis Game Nemesis Game Nemesis Game is a film directed and written by Jesse Warn. This New Zealand movie, called Paper, Scissors, Stone in Canada, is a mystery- thriller involving complex riddles.... |
Sara Novak | |
| 2004 | Intern Academy Intern Academy Intern Academy is a 2004 Canadian comedy film written and directed by Dave Thomas. It has several alternative titles including working titles An Intern's Diary, Whitecoats and Interns. In Canada, its English title is Intern Academy, while its French title is Médecin en herbe. The US DVD title is... |
Sarah Calder | |
| 2004 | Everyone | Rena | |
| 2005 | Window Theory | Angela | |
| 2005 | Sandra Gets Dumped | Sandra | Short film |
| 2005 | Candy | ||
| 2005 | Anna | ||
| 2005 | Eighteen Eighteen (film) Eighteen is a Canadian 2005 dramatic feature film written and directed by Richard Bell.-Plot:The film follows Pip, a street kid who's meeting life head-on in the big city. On his eighteenth birthday he receives his grandfather's Second World War memoirs on audio cassette, a gift that awakens the... |
Jenny | |
| 2005 | Two for the Money Two for the Money (film) Two for the Money is a 2005 film directed by D. J. Caruso, starring Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey and Rene Russo. The film is about the world of sports gambling.-Plot:... |
Tammy | |
| 2005 | White coats | ||
| 2005 | Sandra Goes to Whistler | Sandra | Short film |
| 2007 | Itty Bitty Titty Committee Itty Bitty Titty Committee Itty Bitty Titty Committee is a feminist, lesbian-related comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit. It was released on 28 September 2007.The film had its premiere at the international film festival Berlinale on 9 February 2007, where it was nominated for a Teddy Award for Best Feature... |
Shulamith | |
| 2007 | Beneath | Vanessa | |
| 2007 | Young People Fucking Young People Fucking Young People Fucking, also called Y.P.F., is a 2007 romantic comedy directed, written and produced by Martin Gero and Aaron Abrams. It debuted at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. "Our generation makes an effort to separate love and sex," says Gero. "They're all trying to do this thing,... |
Kris | |
| 2008 | Say Goodnight | Crystal | |
| 2008 | Edison and Leo Edison and Leo Edison and Leo is a 2008 stop-motion animated feature film produced by Perfect Circle Production and Infinity Entertainment. It is Canada's first stop-motion animated feature.-Plot:... |
Zella (voice) | |
| 2008 | Toronto Stories Toronto Stories Toronto Stories is a film in four segments bound together by a young boy, lost in an unknown city. After the prologue, the four segments are directed by different people: "Shoelaces" by Aaron Woodley, "The Brazilian" by Sook-Yin Lee, "Windows" by David "Sudz" Sutherland, and "Lost Boys" by David... |
Roshanna | |
| 2009 | Life Is Hot in Cracktown Life Is Hot in Cracktown Life Is Hot in Cracktown is a 2009 crime drama film based on Buddy Giovinazzo's eponymous 1993 collection of short stories. Giovinazzo directed and wrote the film.-Plot:... |
Stacy | |
| 2009 | Stuntmen | Karla Bravo | |
| 2010 | Man and Woman | Amy | Short film |
| 2011 | S.W.A.T.: Firefight S.W.A.T.: Firefight S.W.A.T.: Firefight is a 2011 American action crime thriller film directed by Benny Boom, and sequel to the 2003 film S.W.A.T., based on the 1975 television series S.W.A.T..-Plot:... |
Kim Byers | Video |
| 2011 | Textuality Textuality Textuality is a concept in linguistics and literary theory that refers to the attributes that distinguish the text as an object of study in those fields... |
Simone | |
| 2012 | Concrete Blondes | Kris Connifer | Post-Production |
| 2013 | Baja Dunesm (original title: Elysium) | Filming |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Principal Takes a Holiday | Student | TV movie |
| 1998 | I've Been Waiting for You I've Been Waiting for You (film) I've Been Waiting for You is a 1998 made-for-tv horror/slasher film directed by Christopher Leitch. The film is based on the 1997 novel Gallows Hill written by Lois Duncan.- Plot :... |
Cheerleader | TV movie |
| 1998 | Night Man Night Man Night Man is an American action/adventure/sci-fi series that aired in syndication from September 15, 1997 to May 17, 1999. The series is loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and was created by Steve Englehart and developed for television by Glen A... |
Teresa Chase | Episode: "Manimal" |
| 1999 | Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge | Mari Ferraez | TV movie |
| 1999 | Aliens in the Wild, Wild West Aliens in the Wild, Wild West Aliens in the Wild, Wild West is a science fiction movie released in 1999. It was directed by George Erschbamer and written by Alon Kaplan.- Plot :... |
Sara Johnson | TV movie |
| 1999 | Beth | TV movie | |
| 1999-2001 | Popular Popular (TV series) Popular is an American teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to... |
Sam McPherson | 43 episodes |
| 2000 | Trapped in a Purple Haze Trapped in a Purple Haze Trapped in a Purple Haze is a TV movie about drug abuse which originally aired on ABC in 2000; its title is a reference to the Jimi Hendrix song Purple Haze... |
Molly White | TV movie |
| 2002 | Kim Possible Kim Possible Kim Possible is an American animated television series about a teenage crime fighter who has the task of dealing with worldwide, family, and school issues every day. The show is action-oriented, but also has a light-hearted atmosphere and often lampoons the conventions and clichés of the... |
Amelia (voice) | Episode: "The New Ron" |
| 2003 | Kim Possible Kim Possible Kim Possible is an American animated television series about a teenage crime fighter who has the task of dealing with worldwide, family, and school issues every day. The show is action-oriented, but also has a light-hearted atmosphere and often lampoons the conventions and clichés of the... |
Amelia (voice) | Episode: "Animal Attraction" |
| 2003 | 1st to Die 1st to Die (film) 1st to Die is a 2003 television film based on the novel of the same name by James Patterson. The film stars Tracy Pollan, Pam Grier, Angie Everhart and Carly Pope as a group of women team up to investigate a string of murders.-Plot:... |
Cindy Thomas | TV movie |
| 2003 | Hemingway: That Summer in Paris | Young Loreto Callaghan | TV movie |
| 2003 | This Time Around This Time Around (film) This Time Around is a made for television movie starring Carly Pope, Sara Rue and Brian Austin Green. It aired on the ABC family channel on June 22, 2003.-Cast:*Carly Pope as Melissa "Mel" Rochester*Brian Austin Green as Drew Hesler... |
Melissa 'Mel' Rochester | TV movie |
| 2003 | Jake 2.0 Jake 2.0 Jake 2.0 is an American science fiction television series originally broadcast on UPN in 2003. The series was canceled on January 14, 2004 due to low ratings, leaving four episodes unaired in the United States. In the United Kingdom, all the episodes aired on Sky1... |
Rachel / Yori | Episode: "The Good, the Bad, and the Geeky" |
| 2003 | Bianca | TV movie | |
| 2004 | Beth Ann | TV movie | |
| 2004 | Ronnie | Episode: "The Letter" | |
| 2004-2006 | Maya Kandinski | 16 episodes | |
| 2005 | Young Blades Young Blades Young Blades is an historical fantasy television series that aired on PAX from January to June 2005, lasting only thirteen episodes before cancellation... |
The Enchantress | Episode: "Enchanted" |
| 2005 | Tru Calling Tru Calling Tru Calling is an American television supernatural drama series that premiered on Fox Network on October 30, 2003. It ran for two seasons before being canceled.... |
Off. Kate Wilson | Episode: "The Perfect Storm" |
| 2005 | Recipe for a Perfect Christmas | J.J. Jenner | TV movie |
| 2006 | 10.5: Apocalypse 10.5: Apocalypse 10.5: Apocalypse is a 2006 television miniseries written and directed by John Lafia. A sequel to 2004's 10.5, the film follows a series of catastrophic seismic disasters .-Plot:... |
Laura Malloy | TV movie |
| 2006 | Episode: "Stringers" | ||
| 2007 | Dirt Dirt (TV series) Dirt is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt and Now Dirt (styled... |
Garbo | 6 episodes |
| 2007 | Kara | Episode: "Till We Have Built Jerusalem Till We Have Built Jerusalem "Till We Have Built Jerusalem" is the seventh episode of season four of the science fiction television series The 4400. The episode originally aired on July 29, 2007 on the USA Network.-Synopsis:... " |
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| 2007 | Whistler Whistler (TV series) Whistler is a Canadian television drama centring on the aftermath of the mysterious death of a local snowboard legend. The series was created by Kelly Senecal and developed by Patrick Banister, John Barbisan, Mindy Heslin, and Susan James.-Premise:... |
Bailey | Episode: "The Rules of Attachment: Part II" Episode: "Last Run" |
| 2008 | Robson Arms Robson Arms Robson Arms is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV on June 17, 2005 and ended on June 30, 2008. Robson Arms is a co-production between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions Limited and Halifax's Creative Atlantic Communications.... |
Anke Vermeulen-Papathanasiou | Episode: "Cherchez la Femme" |
| 2008 | Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon is a 2008, made-for-television horror film broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel on June 9, 2008. Starring Carly Pope, Peter DeLuise, Ona Grauer, and Crystal Lowe, the film centers around a group of people whom, after crashing their plane into the Himalayan Mountains,... |
Sarah | TV movie |
| 2008 | 24: Redemption | Samantha Roth | TV movie |
| 2008 | Californication Californication (TV series) Californication is an American comedy-drama that premiered on Showtime on August 13, 2007. The show was created by Tom Kapinos. The protagonist, Hank Moody , is a troubled novelist whose move to California, coupled with his writer's block, complicates his relationships with his longtime girlfriend... |
Annika | Episode: "Coke Dick & First Kick" Episode: "Blues from Laurel Canyon" |
| 2009 | 24 24 (TV series) 24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration... |
Samantha Roth | 5 episodes |
| 2010 | Day One Day One (TV series) Day One is a planned NBC sci-fi television movie—originally a TV series pilot—about apartment residents that survive an unknown worldwide cataclysm, that destroys modern infrastructure. The movie/pilot was directed by Alex Graves, who previously directed the pilot episodes for the Fox TV series... |
Bonnie | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2010 | Outlaw Outlaw (TV series) Outlaw is an American television series that was aired on the NBC network. The one-hour courtroom drama stars Jimmy Smits as a Supreme Court Justice who resigns from the bench to start his own law firm, as a way to more directly promote the ends of justice... |
Lucinda Pearl | 8 episodes |