Emily Procter

 

After Procter moved to Los Angeles, her father paid for her to take acting classes for two years. Prior to graduating she had already secured numerous small-film roles, including Cameron Crowe's comedy-drama sports romance Jerry Maguire (1996) as well as a co-star alongside David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper in the TV movie Breast Men (1997). Procter played the role of Lana Lang on the ABC superhero drama Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman. Procter appeared briefly in The Dukes of Hazzard Reunion. (1997) as Mavis and the drama Body Shots (1999) as Whitney Bryant.In 1995, Procter played Annabel, the brief romance with Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc), in the second episode of season two of the NBC sitcom Friends that was named "The One with the Breast Milk." From 2000 until 2002 and later in 2006, Procter played the recurring role of Associate White House Counsel Ainsley Hayes in the NBC political drama The West Wing.Procter is close to actress Jorja Fox, who starred in the role of Sara Sidle in the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation between 2000 and 2015. Fox persuaded Procter to try out for the lead part of Calleigh Duquesne on the CSI spin-off CSI: Miami, which she ended up winning. The show ran on CBS for 10 seasons beginning on September 23, 2002, to April 8, 2012.Procter participated in 2007's Live Earth event by reading aloud, with other actresses the essay Michelle Gardner-Quinn wrote while she was a student at the University of Vermont.In February 2013, Procter had a recurring role in the final two episodes of season 4 of the USA Network crime drama White Collar. Procter was Amanda Callaway, a white collar crime agent from Atlanta who is promoted by the FBI to head of the New York City division.