Carly Pope

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Biography

The striking, dark-haired player performed well in the role, capably evincing the character's adolescent unease while also displaying her intelligence and perceptive humor, particularly in Sam's capacities as an honest and unflinching reporter for the school newspaper. While the series did not receive rousing critical acclaim, it generated a good deal of buzz, captured a core youth audience and landed Pope on the pages of many a teen fashion …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

August 28, 1980

Career Milestones

2001

Played the unhappy girlfriend of a poker player in the festival-screened "Finder's Fee"

2001

Cast as a young single mother in the comedy "See Spot Run"

2000

Played featured role of Molly, the young woman who turns Jonathan Jackson's Max on to drugs, in the ABC movie "Purple Haze"

1999

Starred on The WB series "Popular" as Sam, a social outcast whose mother becomes engaged to popular cheerleader Brooke's father

1999

Was featured in the Showtime movie "A Cooler Climate", playing the daughter of a couple with a troubled marriage

1999

Starred in the children's feature "Aliens in the Wild Wild West"

1999

Played Mari Ferraez, a high school compatriot of a group of accused rapists, who deviously befriends the mentally challenged victim in order to influence her testimony, in the fact-based ABC TV-movie "Our Guys: Outrage in Glen Ridge"

1998

Made her feature debut with a role in the teen thriller "Disturbing Behavior"

1998

Appeared as a cheerleader in the NBC TV-movie thriller "I've Been Waiting For You"

Raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Awards

2004

Vancouver International Film Festival for Best Canadian Feature Film in What Remains of Us