Marg Helgenberger

Marg Helgenberger: Biography in Details

Who is Marg Helgenberger?

Marg Helgenberger is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Catherine Willows in the CBS police procedural drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–12, 2013, 2015).

Her other projects are the TV movie Immortality (2015) in the ABC drama China Beach (1988–91), which earned her the 1990 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

What is the birth name of Marg Helgenberger?

Marg was born in Fremont, Nebraska, the United States on November 16, 1958. Her birth name is  Mary Marg Helgenberger and she is currently 64 years old.

Her father’s name is Hugh Helgenberger and her mother’s name is Mary Kay. She was raised in North Bend, Nebraska.

She has two siblings namely, Ann Helgenberger, and Curt Helgenberger. Marg holds American citizenship and mixed (German- Irish) ethnicity. Her birth sign is Scorpio.

Education, School/ College University

Talking about Marg’s education, she graduated from North Bend Central High School. Then, she also aspired to be a nurse like her mother but attended Kearney State College (now the University of Nebraska at Kearney) in Kearney, Nebraska.

Later, she also attended Northwestern University‘s School of Speech in Evanston, Illinois, (now the School of Communication), and earned a B.S. degree in speech and drama.

Marg Helgenberger: Professional Life, Career

Talking about her profession, Marg Helgenberger began as a nightly weather person at KHGI-TV, the ABC affiliate in Kearney, while attending college (her name was changed by the producer to Margi McCarty).

Additionally, Helgenberger guest-starred in an episode of the ABC series Spenser: For Hire, NBC’s Matlock, and ABC’s thirtysomething.

In addition, she also played a regular role as Natalie Thayer, opposite Margot Kidder and James Read, on the six-episode drama-comedy series Shell Game (1987). She followed it up with a role in Steven Spielberg’s romantic comedy-drama Always (starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, and John Goodman), a modern version of the original 1943 Victor Fleming film A Guy Named Joe.

Whereas, Helgenberger also played the love interest to Woody Harrelson‘s character in The Cowboy Way (1994) and had a small role as Capt. Besides that, Alison Sinclair in Michael Bay‘s action comedy film Bad Boys (1995).

Likewise, Helgenberger had roles in television films Not on the Frontline and In Sickness and in Health. She played opposite Bruno Kirby in I’ll Be Waiting and as a novelist in the miniseries Stephen King‘s The Tommyknockers opposite Jimmy Smits.

Similarly, she also starred opposite Ann-Margret in Showtime’s Happy Face Murders. Then, she also starred as Dennis Quaid‘s wife and Scarlett Johansson‘s mother in writer-director Paul Weitz’s romantic drama comedy In Good Company (2004).

In December 2009, Forbes magazine placed Helgenberger third among primetime’s top-earning women, with estimated earnings of $9.5 million, after Tyra Banks and Katherine Heigl. She lent her voice as Greek goddess Hera to the straight-to-video animated film Wonder Woman.

Moreover, Helgenberger also starred as Lilian Strand in the series Intelligence alongside Josh Holloway and Meghan Ory. Additionally, she also briefly returned to CSI as Catherine for the 300th episode. 

Awards, Nomination

She was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for China Beach (1988) at Golden Globe Awards.

This actress was also nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000).

She won Best Actress in a New Drama Series for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) at OFTA Television Award.

Likewise, she won the Favorite Female Television Star at People’s Choice Award. Similarly, she won Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Drama Series for China Beach (1988) at Q Award.

What is the net worth of Marg Helgenberger?

She has an estimated net worth of around $32 million (as per 2023 data) and she has earned that sum of money from her professional career.

Whereas, in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) she earned up to $390,000 /episode (2009-10), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) she earned up to $375,000 /episode (2010-11).

Marg Helgenberger: Rumors and Controversy

There was a rumor about Marg that she returned to ‘CSI’. Another rumor was she was pregnant. Currently, she is far from rumors and controversies.

What are the body measurements of Marg Helgenberger?

Marg Helgenberger has a height of 5 feet 6 inches. Additionally, she weighs 54Kg. In addition, she has a measurement of 35-24-35 inches and her bra size is 40B.

Marg’s hair color is blonde and her eye color is blue. Furthermore, her dress size is 6 (US) and her shoe size is 6.5 (US).

Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

She has around 44.1K followers on her Twitter and around 64.5K followers on her Instagram. But, she doesn’t have an official page on her Facebook.

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