“I like animals, I really do, but some animals are just meant to be eaten.”
Birthname:
Emmanuelle Vaugier
Hometown:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Assets:
Humble (she recently worked with Uwe Boll, but did not have to); languages, beautiful face and hair
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Vices:
Does not specify whether $15 price of signed autograph (available on official website) is in U.S. or Canadian dollars.
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Hobbies:
Flying her two miniature poodles Lily and Isabelle between sets and residences in Los Angeles and Vancouver.
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Introduction
Emmanuelle Vaugier is a beautiful Canadian film and television actress. She may be best known to American audiences from her recurring role as Det. Jessica Angell on CSI:NY. She also appeared as Dr. Helen Bryce, the love interest of Lex Luthor during the 2002-3 season of Smallville, and as Nicki on One Tree Hill during 2004-5. Emmanuelle previously did stints on two Canadian series, Madison and Higher Ground.
Much of Emmanuelle's film work has been in the horror and sci-fi genres. In features, she has appeared alongside Michael Caine and Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions. The small-breasted Vaugier also played a small part, with a minor topless scene, in the Josh Hartnett vehicle 40 Days and 40 Nights. Guess which film project she’s more proud of?
Life story
Vaugier grew up in a French-speaking Catholic household and attended an all-girls private school for 10 years. She began modeling as a teenager and continues to do the occasional photo shoot. But acting was her first love. "When I was in second grade, I did my first school play. It was all over after that!" she said.
Vaugier started by doing commercials, then got a part in a forgettable Showtime movie, The Halfback of Notre Dame. She credits the appearance with opening doors, especially in her native Vancouver, a center of movie and television production. "I kind of jumped to the head of the line. I was really lucky," Emmanuelle told Eh! magazine.
Emmanuelle had an over-the-top run on One Tree Hill as bad girl Nicky, and got clobbered in a brief catfight with the bigger Hilarie Burton as Peyton. In addition to her recurring roles on that Smallville and Veronica Mars, Emmanuelle has also had several guest appearances on shows, including The Outer Limits, Higher Ground, and Charmed. Vaugier played a sexy, but tormented werewolf on Supernatural, and proved to audiences that even sexy werewolves can be tormented. Many of these productions filmed in and around Vancouver.<br
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Playing one of the call girls in another cable movie, Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss, Emmanuelle Vaugier provided a brief bit of nudity so that the star, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, did not. As research, Emmanuelle said, she read Fleiss' book, but "I refused to buy it... on principle" she said.<br
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Emmanuelle can be seen in her recurring role on Two and a Half Men, the CBS hit sitcom in which she plays Mia, a ballet teacher who is the object of Charlie Sheen's attraction. She also completed a starring role in MOW Veiled Truth for the Lifetime Network, which, as a company, has a restraining order against Charlie Sheen.
While steadily working, her parts have been small in major pictures. While Emmanuelle had many scenes in Secondhand Lions, they were flashbacks with Christian Kane, with no dialogue as Michael Caine provided voiceover. Her role in the dismal 40 Days was limited to the topless scene, although that might have been a blessing in disguise.
Her film credits include Addison in Saw II and IV. Among her many horror and sci-fi films, little Emmanuelle also provided a little bit of nudity in The Demon Within, aka The Sculptress, where her slight curves contrast greatly with the enormous fake ones of Katriona Browne as her roommate. She played the lead in the movie of Painkiller Jane. but did not continue the part in the subsequent, brief TV series.
Emmanuelle also did a comedic turn as a hitwoman in Blonde and Blonder opposite Pam Anderson and Denise Richards. In the minor Canadian film Unearthed, Vaugier played Annie, the alcoholic sheriff of a small rural desert town. Despite the unlikely conceit and very poor special effects, Vaugier's performance is among her best, much better than the material. She also appears in the video game, Need for Speed: Carbon, as Nikki.
Maxim magazine featured her on the cover of the February 2006 issue in the U.S., with the caption "Don't miss this girl; she's gonna be huge." Three months later, she landed spot #31 on their annual Hot 100 list.
Unfortunately, after three largely underused years on CSI:NY,Emmauelle's character was abruptly killed off and she was fired in 2009. At the time, Vaugier attributed it to cost cuts. But the show quickly added Sarah Carter, a much blonder, somewhat younger and slightly more voluptuous Canadian, to replace Emmanuelle.
Recently, Vaugier wrapped appearances in two more sci-horro opuses, Dolan's Cadillac and Hysteria, a slasher film not to be confused with the batty 1998 horror movie she made opposite Patrick McGoohan and Amanda Plummer, where Emmanuelle was extensively topless. A review of that movie on celebrity nude database praised Vaugier's commitment to her, um, art, saying that in one scene, "her little titties are jiggling all over the place (as much as small boobs can jiggle at least)."
Speaking of miniatures, Emmanuelle is particularly proud of her miniature poodles.
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