We all get busy sometimes, so in this case… mea culpa!

Don’t let that distract us from celebrating the birthday from an incredibly beautiful, talented and wonderful actress we have grown to love to hate from Southland: Ms. Emily Bergl!!

Even her toughest critics must admit, Emily has nailed it in her role on Southland as the oft-despised Tami Bryant, wife of Detective Sammy Bryant. Face it, for a woman as incredibly talented as Emily is, it takes amazing acting chops to come across on screen as clueless, naive and despicable as Tammi does – making her one of Southland’s characters that we all love to hate. That character is one that is undeniably indispensable, however, because it is her actions that lead to some of the best character development and actions on the part of Sammy throughout the first three seasons of the show.

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SouthLAnd fans know her as the eccentric Tammi Bryant, wife of detective Sammy Bryant (played by Shawn Hatosy), but Emily Bergl is not to be confused with Tammi. Far from it! Emily is an extremely talented film, television and stage actress who has performed in everything from comedies to dramas. She is also a dedicated humanitarian and activist, spending much of her non-acting time volunteering for organizations like Habitat for Humanity building homes in the USA and around the world, or working with Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic.

Now in her musical debut, Emily brings us Kidding On the Square, a sexy vintage cabaret that invites the audience on a roaring 20s ride through love, heartbreak, and everything in between. Come and enjoy an old fashioned romantic evening told from the perspective of a modern girl and the eccentric characters she inhabits.  Emily Bergl, along with acclaimed musical director and pianist G. Scott Lacy, creates a cabaret world that blends classic Fats Waller and Cole Porter hits with vintage takes on modern favorites from the Scissor Sisters to Madonna.

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Happy Birthday to Emily or as we know her best, Tammi Bryant. We still don’t know what makes the marriage work between her and Sammy but there have been some strange moments between the two.  From the very first episode with her  calling Sammy to ask him to come home and make a baby with her, to taking pictures of gang members and skateboarders whom one of them she invited home to smoke some pot then he stole her camera and laptop, we never know what Tammi is going to do next.

What we do know is that Emily is an accomplished actress in not only television, but film and theatre. She has been in The Rage: Annie 2  to various tv shows from Grey’s Anatomy, ER, NYPD Blue, CSI: Miami and where I first came to love her as the eccentric  Annie in Men in Trees.

Please join us in wishing Emily a very Happy Birthday by adding your well-wishes in the comment below

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