Shiri Appleby - Roswell's Liz Parker posted: 11:32 am ET 05 October 1999
Shiri Appleby - Roswell's Liz Parker
Although
hailed as a "welcome fresh face" on television, Shiri Appleby, who plays
"Liz Parker" on the new SF drama Roswell, has been performing since she
was 4 years old.
Growing up in the San Francisco
Valley near Los Angeles, Appleby started out as a child actor in television
commercials before branching out to guest roles in such series as Xena:
Warrior Princess, in which she played the feminist vigilante's aggressive
would-be sidekick for two episodes, and Doogie Howser, M.D.
She has also appeared in
the recent SF film "The Thirteenth Floor," as well as 1990's dark comedy
"I Love You to Death."
Her character on Roswell
is a high-school student who works part-time in her father's Crashdown
Café, a Roswell diner that caters to the town's thriving UFO-oriented
tourist trade. Together with her best friends Maria
and Alex,
Liz is one of the few people to know that actual aliens make their home
in Roswell, where a flying disk supposedly crashed in 1947.
When not chasing aliens around
on screen, Appleby is an English major at the University of Southern California.
Major Credits
(film) The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
I Love You to Death (1990)
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