Carly Pope Biography: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know About The Actress

Quick Facts

The beautiful Carly Pope is a Canadian actress who was born on the 28th of August 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Carly began her professional career with very insignificant roles which included roles in movies like Night Man and Snow Day. Her big movie break came in 2004 when she appeared on screen as Maya Kadaniski in the movie, The Collector.

Carly Pope Biography

Born into a family of three, Carly has two other siblings. Her older brother is also an actor who is named Kris Pope and her younger brother is Alexander Pope. Very little information is available about her parents.

She attended High School at the Lord Byng Secondary School which was beside the University of British Columbia. Carly at an early age developed a flair for acting. While she was still in High School in Vancouver, she appeared in plays such as The Odd Couple and Midsummer Night’s, to name just a few.

Following her 2004 breakthrough, the following year saw her take her acting career forward. She was handed a guest role on FOX’s Tru Calling and also played a role as a prospective social worker in the movie Eighteen.

Carly Pope then moved on a bit when she joined the very short-lived cast of NBC’s courtroom drama series The Outlaw. She has also starred in much bigger and successful series which includes hit series Suits where the Canadian actress played the role of Tera Messer who impresses the quirky Louis Litt with her charm and her ability in Architecture.

The pair’s connection could be seen as palpable and immediate and her presence around the attorney Louis brought out a whole new side which was previously unseen by followers of the show.

Aside from her role on Suits, she also took on the role of Susan in DC Comics Arrows. Pope made her first appearance in the third episode of Season Five. In the movie, she portrayed the character of a reporter who comes to the Star City in search of a career-making story and targets the Mayor as the source of the said story. On the show, she is the wife of Jim Jordan.

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Carly has appeared in movies such as The Glass House, Various Positions, Orange County, Tru Calling, Eighteen, Life is Hot in Cracktown, The Last Lonely Place. She starred in Young People Fucking and in the series 24, she played Samantha Roth, the president son’s girlfriend.

5 Fast Facts You Need To Know About Carly

1. She takes education seriously

Carly Pope is someone who takes education pretty seriously and splits her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver. She is at the moment attending a University in Vancouver when her filming schedule is less tedious. Her academic interests are in Linguistics and the Arts. She is fluent in Frech, Italian and Spanish.

2. She has had a close shave with death

On the 29th of December in 2009, Carly Pope and her brother Kris were driving a black BMW in downtown Vancouver when a 31-year-old man identified as David Fromrades jumped in front of the car and asked them to run him over. When Carly’s brother Kris got out of the car, the man jumped in and drove the car into the CBS Studios. The pair suffered injuries especially Carly who suffered a cracked rib and two broken vertebrae. Her brother suffered injuries to his ankle and bystanders at the scene of the crash were injured as well.

3. Carly always had a flair for acting even as a child

Carly as a child had an interest in acting, she was a stage favourite back in High School and was a regular in school theatre plays. These performances helped in honing her acting talents from a very young age.

4. Acting runs in the Pope family

Her older brother Kris is an actor and this goes to show that acting and showbiz is something that isn’t entirely new to the family.

5. Carly is worth $2 million

The Canadian actress is someone who is still working her way up the pyramids of Hollywood and hasn’t been an A-list actor for very long which will explain why her current net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.

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