My Babes List (#66)

#66 Emmanuelle Vaugier

Emmanuelle Vaugier (born June 23, 1976) is a Canadian actress born in Vancouver, British Columbia and grew up in a French-speaking household.

She had done some modeling before her acting career began. Vaugier's biggest role to date has perhaps been as Dr. Helen Bryce, the love interest of Lex Luthor on Smallville. She also appeared opposite Hayden Christensen on Higher Ground, and with Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men. On the big screen, Vaugier has appeared alongside Michael Caine and Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions, and in the Josh Hartnett vehicle 40 Days and 40 Nights.

Maxim magazine featured her on the cover of the February 2006 issue in the United States, with the caption "Don't miss this girl; she's gonna be huge."

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Filmography

• Painkiller Jane (2006)
• House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim (2006)
• Saw 2 (2005)
• Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004)
• Water's Edge (2003)
• Secondhand Lions (2003)
• "My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star" (2002)
• 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
• Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001)
• Suddenly Naked (2001)
• Mindstorm (2001)
• Largo Winch: The Heir (2001)

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External links

• Emmanuelle Vaugier at the Internet Movie Database
• Emmanuelle Vaugier at TV.com

biography

As one of Canada’s busiest actors, Emmanuelle can be seen in her recurring role on ‘Two and A Half Men’, the CBS hit sitcom. Emmanuelle plays Mia, a beautiful and elegant ballet teacher who catches Charlie's (Charlie Sheen) eye one morning at a coffee shop; however, she wants nothing to do with him or his advances. She later warms-up to him when he has Jake (Angus T. Jones) take one of her ballet classes.

Emmanuelle Vaugier is starring in ‘Saw II’ the number one box office hit; released by Lion’s Gate on October 28th, 2005. Emmanuelle joins returning actors Shawnee Smith and Tobin Bell in the cast. Donnie Walhlberg and Glen Plummer also star.

Emmanuelle is also the new female superhero for the television adaptation of the comic ‘Painkiller Jane’ for the Sci Fi Channel that is set to air on December 10^th. The two-hour pilot has her in the role of a young marine officer who gains super heroic healing powers when she is accidentally exposed to biochemical weaponry. "She's a strong female superhero paradigm; not simply someone in spandex fighting crime," Sci Fi executive Mark Stern told Daily Variety when the project was initially announced. "It's really the drama of a normal person who finds themselves with powers that they don't know what to do with or how to handle."

Based on the Event Comics series, ‘Painkiller Jane’ is a super-heroine for the new millennium. When Jane Browning (Vaugier) is exposed to a biochemical weapon that alters her genes, she becomes endowed with incredible self-healing powers and extraordinary physical and mental abilities. Now, on the run from a sinister organization determined to replicate her powers – or destroy them – Jane joins forces with some unlikely allies to become an ultra-covert crime-fighting agent.

The character originated in the pages of Joe Quesada and Jim Palmiotti's Event Comic title. Richard Roundtree (‘Shaft’, ‘Desperate Housewives’) and Tate Donovan (‘The O.C.’) also star.

Emmanuelle Vaugier is considered one of Canada's most promising young performers. She recently finished a starring role in ‘Unearthed’; Emmanuelle plays Annie, the sheriff of a small, rural desert town. Written and directed by Matthew Leutwyler, Emmanuelle is starring opposite Charlie Murphy and Tommy Dewey.

The Vancouver native is known as much for her turns on shows like ‘Smallville’ and ‘One Tree Hill’ as her appearances on the covers of magazines. Emmanuelle is back as Nikki in the television series ‘One Tree Hill’ on The WB. She recently completed production on the lead role in ‘House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim’, due out from Lions Gate next year. Last fall she played Lindsey Kellogg who is the ex-fiancée to Jay Kenneth Johnson’s character on the Fox Television series ‘North Shore’. On UPN’s new hit series ‘Veronica Mars’ Emmanuelle is Monica Hadwin a ‘trophy wife’ to a successful Hollywood agent and meets up with Harry Hamlin's character Aaron Echolls on the show.

Emmanuelle is Princess Jasmine, the daughter of an Arabian sultan in New Line Cinema’s ‘Secondhand Lions’ opposite Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Haley Joel Osment, now on DVD. Emmanuelle plays Lauren in ‘Call Me, The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss’; for the USA Network. She also portrays Dr. Helen Bryce; Lex Luthor’s wife on the WB’s hit drama ‘Smallville’.

She starred in the WB comedy ‘My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star’ and in the film ‘40 Days and 40 Nights’ opposite Josh Hartnett. She has also completed starring roles in three independent films, including ‘Suddenly Naked’, in which she plays a Latin pop sensation, ‘Mindstorm’, a sci-fi thriller, and ‘Ripper’, a psychological thriller about students that mysteriously disappear after enrolling in a class about serial killers.

On the small screen she has held several guest-starring roles, including ‘The Handler’, ‘Outer Limits’, ‘Higher Ground’ opposite Hayden Christensen and WB’s ‘Charmed’. Emmanuelle also appeared in the Emmy Award nominated miniseries ‘The Beach Boys: An American Family’ where she portrayed Mike Love’s wife, Suzanne.

Vaugier was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up in a French-speaking household. She currently resides in Los Angeles and has a home in Vancouver.