Vanessa Lengies


Vanessa Lengies

Vanessa Lengies
Vanessa Lynne-Marie Len­gies Is a Cana­dian actress, dancer and singer best known for star­ring in the drama Amer­i­can Dreams as Rox­anne Bojarski. She recently appeared as Nurse Kelly Epson on the TNT med­ical drama HawthoRNe, and is cur­rently appear­ing in the recur­ring role of Sugar Motta in the third and fourth sea­son of the Fox musi­cal dram­edy Glee. She is also cur­rently appear­ing in the role of Loco Uno in an online mock­u­men­tary and
In 2002, she was cast as a series reg­u­lar in the NBC comedy-drama Amer­i­can Dreams, play­ing teenager Rox­anne Bojarski. The show was set in Philadel­phia in the mid-1960s, and Rox­anne becomes one of the dancers on the Amer­i­can Band­stand tele­vi­sion show hosted by Dick Clark. The series ran for three sea­sons, with the final episode broad­cast on March 30, 2006 .
In August 2005, she co-starred with Hilary Duff and Heather Lock­lear in the com­edy The Per­fect Man. She also plays a sup­port­ing role as the jail­bait host­ess, Natasha, in the 2005 Amer­i­can film Wait­ing… and recre­ated the role in the film’s 2009 sequel, Still Wait­ing.… In 2006, she co-starred with Jeff Bridges and Missy Pere­grym as a gym­nast in the movie Stick It.
For The Grudge 2, the role of Vanessa was orig­i­nally writ­ten for Len­gies, who even­tu­ally turned it down to film My Sui­cide; the part still bears her name. She has also appeared in CBS show Ghost Whis­perer in an episode titled “The Van­ish­ing” and the NBC show Medium in the episode “Apoc­a­lypse… Now?”. She made another appear­ance in an episode of the short-lived CBS show Moon­light.
Len­gies was seen as Sophia in the Life­time orig­i­nal drama series Monarch Cove. She also co-starred in the ABC online com­edy, Squeegees.
She appeared as Nurse Kelly Epson on the TNT med­ical drama HawthoRNe from 2009 through 2011. The role was a recur­ring one for the first sea­son, and Len­gies became a series reg­u­lar for the fol­low­ing two sea­sons. The show, which ran for three sea­sons of ten episodes start­ing each June, was not renewed for a fourth sum­mer.
In August 2011, Len­gies was cast in the recur­ring role of Sugar Motta for the third sea­son of Glee. Sugar, who is well-off, self-confident, and has a tin ear, first appeared in the sea­son pre­miere on Sep­tem­ber 20, 2011. Since then, Sugar’s singing has greatly improved, and she now per­forms with the main glee club, New Direc­tions; she had her first solo line in the season’s tenth episode, “Yes/No”.


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