She also played a regular role as Natalie Thayer, opposite Margot Kidder and James Read, on the six-episode drama comedy series Shell Game (1987). Helgenberger guest-starred in an episode of the ABC series Spenser: For Hire, NBC's Matlock, and ABC's thirtysomething. After nearly four years, Helgenberger left the show in January 1986 to pursue new opportunities.
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Soon after completing college, Helgenberger landed her first professional role on the long-running ABC Daytime soap opera in March 1982, playing amateur cop Siobhan Ryan Novak DuBujak, a role previously played by Ann Gillespie.
While performing in a summer 1981 NU campus production of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, where she played Kate, Helgenberger was spotted by a scout for the TV soap opera Ryan's Hope. After portraying the role of Blanche Dubois in a university production of A Streetcar Named Desire, she developed an interest in acting. During the summer, she also worked as a deboner at her father's meatpacking plant. Helgenberger began as a nightly weathergirl at KHGI-TV, the ABC affiliate in Kearney, while attending college (her name was changed by the producer to Margi McCarty). Until she went to college, Helgenberger aspired to be a nurse like her mother, but attended Kearney State College (now the University of Nebraska at Kearney) in Kearney, Nebraska, then attended Northwestern University's School of Speech in Evanston, Illinois, (now the School of Communication) and earned a B.S. Helgenberger played the French horn in her high school marching band. She has one older sister named Ann and a younger brother named Curt. Helgenberger is of Irish and German descent and had a Roman Catholic upbringing. She was raised in North Bend, Nebraska, where she graduated from North Bend Central High School.
Helgenberger was born Novemin Fremont, Nebraska, to Mary Kay ( née Bolte), a nurse, and Hugh Helgenberger, a meat inspector.
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