Liz Vassey

Liz Vassey is an American actress best known for playing a variety of prominent roles in a career that has now lasted for 35 years. She began by playing the teenage Emily Ann Sago Martin in more than 100 episodes of the long-running soap opera All My Children in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She then appeared in sitcoms such as Pig Sty, Brotherly Love, and The Tick before landing a long-running role as Wendy Simms in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2019, she voiced Lobstercules in a remake of The Tick and appeared in four episodes of Riley Parra: Better Angels as Dr Gillian Hunt. The latter role won her a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama.

Vassey was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in August 1972. She was still in high school when she began her acting career, becoming a regular member of the All My Children cast as Emily Ann Sago. The role won her her first Daytime Emmy nomination in 1990, for Best Juvenile Female in a Drama Series. Throughout the 1990s, she appeared in all manner of shows, from Quantum Leap, ER, and Beverly Hills, 90210, to Married with Children, Murder She Wrote, and Jake and the Fatman.

As the new millennium dawned, Vassey played recurring roles in shows such as The Tick; Push, Nevada; Tru Calling, and of course, CSI. She joined the latter show as DNA Technician Wendy Simms in time for the sixth season of the show, and by the tenth season, she had been promoted to the main cast. Since leaving the show in 2010, she has appeared in the likes of Two and a Half Men and Necessary Roughness.