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Erica Gimpel

American actress, singer, dancer, and composer

Summary

American actress, singer, dancer, and composer

Field	Value
image	Gimpel family singing "Our Love Is Here To Stay".jpg
caption	Erica Gimpel, Joseph Gimpel (her father) and Phyllis Bash (her mother) singing Our Love Is Here to Stay (2018)
name	Erica Gimpel
birth_name	Erica Fawn Gimpel
birth_date
birth_place	New York City, U.S.
education	High School of Performing Arts
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occupation
yearsactive	1982–present

Erica Fawn Gimpel (born June 25, 1964) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and composer. She is best known for her roles on television shows Fame as Coco Hernandez and on Profiler as Angel Brown. She is also known for her recurring roles on the television shows ER as Adele Newman and on Veronica Mars as Alicia Fennel. From 2018 to 2020, Gimpel had a series regular role as Trish on the series God Friended Me.

Gimpel was a judge on RTÉ One's Fame: The Musical, an Irish TV talent show seeking a boy and a girl to play Nick and Serena respectively in the Irish touring production of Fame.

Personal life

Gimpel was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1964. She graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts a few months after she started filming her role as a student at the same school for the television show Fame. She had toured the United States and Europe with her mother, singer Phyllis Bash, who was in the opera Porgy and Bess.

Career

Film and television

Gimpel has starred in numerous primetime and streaming shows including NCIS: New Orleans, Chicago Med, Grey's Anatomy, Shut Eye, True Blood, Criminal Minds, Nikita, Rizzoli & Isles, House, ER, Profiler, and Veronica Mars. One of Gimpel's favorite projects was playing Trish on the CBS drama God Friended Me for two seasons. She played Ellie Fielding in Mayfair Witches and Brittany Arrington on The Night Agent.

On film, she has appeared in Tuesday Morning Ride (1995), Smoke, King of New York, No Such Thing, Freaky Friday, Romeo and Juliet in Harlem, and Sylvie's Love, and in the independent feature Bang Bang (2023).

Theater

Theater credits include originating the role of Mayme in Lynn Nottage's award-winning Intimate Apparel., Glory Bee in States of Shock, and Nelly in Each Day Dies With Sleep.

Music

In January 2010, Gimpel released the album Spread your Wings and Fly, recorded live in Santa Monica.

Gimpel composed and performed the song "This Moment" on God Friended Me. She also co-wrote and performed the song "Goodbye" on Babylon 5.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Case Closed	Kathy	TV movie
1990	King of New York	Dr. Shute
Penny Ante: The Motion Picture	Dale Martinez
1991	Homicide	Woman with Randolph
Undertow	Nina
1994	**	Jackie
Amateur	Irate Woman
1995	Smoke	Doreen Cole
Flirt	Nurse
Tuesday Morning Ride	Modine	Short
**	Officer Hudson	TV movie
1996	Sticks & Stones	Miss William
1997	Touch Me	Kareen
1999	Santa and Pete	Cassie Moore	TV movie
Intimate Betrayal	Toni	TV movie
2001	No Such Thing	Judy
Impostor	Newscaster No. 1
2003	Freaky Friday	Harry's Teacher
2004	In Your Eyes	Yolie
**	Beth	TV movie
Betty's Treats	Mrs. Wilson	Short
Beck and Call	Leah	TV Short
2006	Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall	Margaret Monroe	TV movie
2007	**	Gail
2009	Veronika Decides to Die	Nurse White
Blue Eyes	Sandra
2010	Machete Joe	Erica
2013	Tio Papi	Det. Johnson
2015	Cloudy with a Chance of Love	Dr. Ruth Harris	TV movie
Sex, Death and Bowling	Shanti
2017	Romeo and Juliet in Harlem	Nurse
2020	Sylvie's Love	Eunice
2021	Far More	Shanti
2024	Bang Bang	Sharon

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982–87	Fame	Coco Hernandez	Main Cast: Season 1–3, Guest: Season 4 & 6
1985	Spenser: For Hire	Shelley	Episode: "Original Sin"
North and South	Semiramis	Main Cast
1986	North and South, Book II	Semiramis	Main Cast
1988	**	Jennifer	Episode: "Waterworks"
1990	American Playhouse	Wendy	Episode: "Women & Wallace"
1994	Law & Order	Templeton	Episode: "Breeder"
Touched by an Angel	Sydney Jessup	Episode: "Tough Love"
1995	New York Undercover	Melinda	Episode: "The Smoking Section"
1996	Babylon 5	Cailyn	Episode: "Walkabout"
1996–99	Profiler	Angel Brown	Main Cast: Season 1–3, Recurring Cast: Season 3-4
1997	**	Felice Carlyle	Episode: "Driving Ms. Money"
1997–03	ER	Adele Newman	Recurring Cast: Season 3-4 & 6–8, Guest: Season 9
1999	Any Day Now	Laura Sanders	Episode: "A Parent's Job"
2000	**	Ella's Lawyer	Episode: "The Real Terrorist" & "How They Lived"
2001	Roswell	FBI Agent Suzanne Duff	Recurring Cast: Season 2
2002	Touched by an Angel	Sydney Jessup	Episode: "The Last Chapter"
MDs	Allison Greely	Episode: "Cruel and Unusual"
2003–04	JAG	Varese Chestnut	Episode: "A Merry Little Christmas" & "What If"
2004	**	Aimee Breckridge	Episode: "Bite Me"
2004–06	Veronica Mars	Alicia Fennel	Recurring Cast: Season 1-2
2005	Everwood	Dr. Gans	Episode: "Surprise"
2006	House	Elizabeth Stone	Episode: "Failure to Communicate"
Numb3rs	Principal Riva Bell	Episode: "Waste Not"
Criminal Minds	Sarah	Episode: "Profiler, Profiled"
2006–07	Boston Legal	Attorney Samantha Fried	Recurring Cast: Season 2, Guest: Season 3
2007	Close to Home	Dr. Udell	Episode: "Protégé"
Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses	Police Sgt. Joanne Matterson	Episode: "If Wishes Were Horses"
2008	Eleventh Hour	Lizzie Summers	Episode: "Cardiac"
2009	Grey's Anatomy	Bethany Anderson	Episode: "Invest in Love"
2011	Prime Suspect	Principal	Episode: "Wednesday's Child"
**	Det. Harriet Mauro	Regular Cast
2011–12	Rizzoli & Isles	ER Doctor	Guest Cast: Season 2-3
2012	Nikita	Carla Bennett	Recurring Cast: Season 2
Criminal Minds	Sarah	Episode: "The Company"
True Blood	Faerie Elder	Episode: "Sunset"
2013	Cult	Ginny Yarrow	Episode: "The Good Fight" & "The Devil You Know"
2014	Switched at Birth	Yvette Gifford	Episode: "Have You Really the Courage?"
Enormous	Caroline	Episode: "Enormous"
2015	Code Black	Alice Sellers	Episode: "Black Tag"
2016	The Catch	Renée Etheridge	Episode: "The Larágan Gambit"
Murder in the First	Corinne Hager	Episode: "The Barbers of Seville"
2017	Shut Eye	Agent Sims	Recurring Cast: Season 2
2018	Chicago Med	Lydia Singleton	Episode: "An Inconvenient Truth"
2018–20	God Friended Me	Trisha	Recurring Cast: Season 1, Main Cast: Season 2
2021	NCIS New Orleans	Lynette Carter	Episode: "Leda and the Swan, Part 1 & 2"
2022	9-1-1	Pauline Barrett	Episode: "Fear-o-phobia"
2023	Mayfair Witches	Elena "Ellie" Fielding	Recurring Cast: Season 1
The Night Agent	Brittany Arrington	Episode: "The Marionette"

References

(25 June 2011). "This day in history". [[Boston.com]].
Rothenberg, Fred. (7 January 1982). "'Fame' Series Pilot 'Sparkling'". The Sumter Daily Item.
Sweeney, Ken. (23 January 2010). "'Fame' beckons as 1980s star Coco seeks new talent". [[Irish Independent]].
. (2019-12-25). ["Joseph Gimpel Obituary"](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gjsentinel/name/joseph-gimpel-obituary?id=8956853). *[[The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colorado)*.
"Intimate Apparel".
"Erica Gimpel {{!}} Actor {{!}} All Contributions".
"2nd Annual 'Stage Raw' Awards Winners Announced". Broadway World.
(2015-07-16). "Night Sky".

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