Elisabeth Röhm is an award-winning German actress who rose to fame portraying Kate Lockley in the hit TV show Angel from 1999 to 2001. She also played Serena Southerlyn in the popular US crime drama Law & Order between 2001 and 2005, and has starred in several movies including Joy (2015) with Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle (2014) and Bombshell (2019) alongside Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie. She won a Screen Actors Guild Award for American Hustle along with her American Hustle co-stars for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Motion Picture, and also received several award nominations for Law & Order. In 2002 she was chosen for Maxim’s Hot 100 list.
Born in Düsseldorf, West Germany, Röhm moved to New York before she was one, and her American mother became a scriptwriter who wrote for the TV soap Guiding Light. Röhm made her television debut as Dorothy Hayes in One Life to Live (a US soap opera) in 1997, and two years later starred in Eureka Street for BBC Northern Ireland. Later in 1999 she got her big break when she landed a role in Buffy The Vampire Slayer spin-off series Angel, playing Detective Kate Lockley. Röhm appeared in the first two series of the show before leaving to play Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn in hit crime drama Law & Order in 2001.
Röhm has now spent 20 years at the top of the acting profession and continues to shine on both television and film, recently receiving high critical acclaim for her appearances in David O. Russell’s movies Joy and American Hustle.