Emily Swallow

American actor Emily Swallow was born December 18, 1979. Her roles in The Mentalist as Kim Fischer and Supernatural as Amara/The Darkness are her most famous. She is also known for her role as the Armorer in The Mandalorian, the Star Wars live-action series The Mandalorian. Emily was also involved in the video game The Last of Us Part II. Swallow was born on the 18th of December 1979 in Washington, D.C. Her family lived in Sterling, Virginia, as in Jacksonville, Florida. While attending Stanton College Preparatory School in Jacksonville She began her acting career in a variety of college, amateur professional and amateur stage productions. She graduated in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Virginia, and then studied for an MFA in Acting from the New York University's Tisch School for the Arts.Swallow began her career in Broadway theatre performing in numerous productions including High Fidelity, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Guthrie Theater, Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare in the Park, and the world premiere of off-Broadway shows Romantic Poetry and Measure for Pleasure.In 2008, Swallow made her film debut in the military drama The Lucky Ones. The show was the world premiere of Donald Margulies' play The Country House at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse as well as in a duet with Mark Rylance in Louis Jenkins in the production of Nice Fish at the Guthrie Theatre, and also in John Patrick Shanley's musical Romantic Poetry at Manhattan Theater Club. (citation needed) She was the winner of the Falstaff Award in 2010 for the best female actress for the role of Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. In 2012, Swallow and Jac Huberman co-created a stage show called Jac N Swallow. It was performed at Joe's Pub as well as the Laurie Beeckman Theater in New York. The show is about the hilarious mishaps and adventures of Jac Huberman and Swallow in their battle with very different issues in their lives to different degrees of difficulty.



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