About Shiri Appleby
Shiri Appleby is an American actress and television director. She is best known for her leading roles as Liz Parker in the WB/UPN science fiction drama series Roswell (1999–2002) and Rachel Goldberg in the Lifetime/Hulu drama series Unreal (2015–2018). Her major film credits include A Time for Dancing (2000), Swimfan (2002), Havoc (2005), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), and The Devil's Candy (2015). Appleby starred as intern Daria Wade in the final season of the NBC medical drama series ER (2008–2009). She later portrayed Cate Cassidy in The CW drama series Life Unexpected (2010–2011) and Lucy Lambert in the web comedy series Dating Rules from My Future Self (2012). Appleby also had recurring roles on the NBC drama series Chicago Fire (2012–2013) and the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2013–2014). == Early life == Appleby's Israeli-born mother is of Moroccan Jewish descent, and her father is Canadian and of Ashkenazi Jewish descent; he is from Los Angeles. During her youth, her mother worked as a Hebrew school teacher, while her father worked as a tour guide at Universal Studios Hollywood. She grew up in what she says was a "middle-class" household in Calabasas, California and kept kosher in her home. She attended Hebrew school and had a bat mitzvah.
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