About Emmanuelle Chriqui
Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui ( SHREE-kee; born 10 December 1975) is a Canadian-American actress. She is known for playing Sloan McQuewick on HBO's Entourage (2004–11), Claire Bonner in Snow Day (2000), Dalia in You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), Lorelei Martins on CBS's The Mentalist (2013–15), and Lana Lang on The CW's Superman & Lois (2021–2024). == Early life == Chriqui was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Moroccan Jewish parents. Her mother, Liliane, was born in Casablanca, and her father, Albert, in Rabat. Her family practiced Orthodox Judaism. Chriqui has an older brother, Serge, and an older sister, Laurence. When she was almost two, her family moved to Toronto, Ontario. She grew up in Markham, Ontario, a suburb northeast of the city. Her mother, an aesthetician who once told Emmanuelle she would become an actress, died when Chriqui was sixteen years old. When Chriqui was a child, her brother began paying for her to take acting classes.
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