Elisabeth Röhm (born April 28, 1973) is a German American television actress, best known for playing Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn on the television drama Law & Order and as Detective Kate Lockley on the TV series Angel.
Röhm was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, but then moved to New York City before reaching her first birthday and later lived in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. She maintains dual citizenship (U.S. and German...
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Elisabeth Röhm (born April 28, 1973) is a German American television actress, best known for playing Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn on the television drama Law & Order and as Detective Kate Lockley on the TV series Angel.
Röhm was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, but then moved to New York City before reaching her first birthday and later lived in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. She maintains dual citizenship (U.S. and Germany). Her father, Eberhard Röhm, was a corporate attorney. Her mother, Lisa Loverde, a copywriter, once wrote for the soap opera Guiding Light. The two divorced when Röhm was 8 or 9.
She graduated from St. Andrew's-Sewanee School and attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, New York, where she studied Writing and European History.
Röhm, who made Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" list in 2002, had her first major television role as Dorothy "Dorf" Hayes on the soap opera One Life to Live (1997). She also had recurring...
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