Arija Bareikis

Birthplace: Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Birthday: July 21, 1966

An attractive blonde actress with an honest, unadorned appeal, Arija Bareikis projects a quietly powerful presence that has led to a burgeoning career on both stage and screen. She racked up theater credits in regional productions before landing a major Broadway role in 1997 as Sunny Freitag, an Aryan-featured Wesleyan student and Southern Jewish socialite who longs to be a WASP, in Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning "The Last Night of Ballyhoo". Bareikis made her film debut in the 1994 short "Celestial Navigation" and fol…more

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Actor

The American Embassy
Emma Brody
John Grisham's A Painted House
Kathleen Chandler
Without A Trace
Maggie Cartwright
Southland
Chickie Brown
Law & Order

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Career Milestones

2002
Had leading role in the midseason replacement series "The American Embassy" (Fox)
2000
Starred in Aaron Harnick's "30 Days" (filmed in 1998)
1999
Appeared in a recurring role as the sister of a slain inmate who falls in love with an imprisoned Muslim leader on "Oz", HBO's acclaimed prison-set series
1999
Had small role in "Snow Falling on Cedars"
1999
Played female lead opposite Rob Schneider in "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo"