Darby Stanchfield The Full Biography of the ‘Scandal’ Star
Darby Leigh Stanchfield (Born April 29, 1971) is an American entertainer. She is most popular for her job as Abby Whelan in the ABC political show series Outrage (2012-2018). Darby Stanchfield is additionally referred to for jobs as April Green in the CBS dystopian show series Jericho (2006-07), and as Helen Diocesan in the AMC time frame dramatization series Crazy people (2007-08). In 2020, she started featuring as Nina Locke in the Netflix dream loathsomeness series Locke and Key.
Early Life Darby Stanchfield
Darby Stanchfield was brought up in Kodiak, The Frozen North, where her dad was a business angler. She later moved to Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, lastly Mercer Island, close to Seattle. She went to the College of Puget Sound, graduating in 1993 with a degree in Correspondences and a minor in theater. She moved on from the American Center Auditorium in San Francisco.
Career Darby Stanchfield
2000—2011
Darby Stanchfield started her profession in theater, and made her TV debut in an episode of CBS wrongdoing show, Determination: Murder in 2000. Darby Stanchfield later showed up in various TV programs, including dramatizations Heavenly messenger, Priest, American Dreams, Solid Medication, Suddenly, Nip/Fold, Bones, Cold Case, and The Mentalist, and well as sitcoms That ’80s Show, It’s All Family member and How I Met Your Mom. In highlight films, she had the female lead job inverse Josh Duhamel in the 2004 transformation of Oscar Wilde’s The Image of Dorian Dark, and co-featured as Nathan Fillion’s personality spouse in the parody show Server (2007). She later has showed up in various autonomous movies.
From 2006 to 2007, Darby Stanchfield was a customary cast part in the CBS dystopian show series Jericho as April Green. In 2007 she played Amelia Joffe (substituting Annie Wersching for quite a long time in May) in the ABC daytime drama, General Emergency clinic. She later was projected in the repetitive job as Helen Priest on Crazy people, showing up on five episodes. She additionally played Shannon Gibbs, Imprint Harmon’s personality’s most memorable spouse, in the CBS procedural NCIS showing up in seven episodes from 2006 to 2015. Stanchfield likewise visitor featured as Meredith, the title character’s most memorable ex, on the ABC parody show series Palace in 2009 and in 2013.
2012—present Darby Stanchfield
In March 2011, Shonda Rhimes cast Stanchfield in her political show series Outrage. Before Outrage, Darby Stanchfield had visitor job on Shonda Rhimes’ Confidential Practice in 2008. The series appeared on ABC on April 5, 2012. She assumes the part of Abby Whelan, the agent ahead of the pack character firm, and later the White House Press Secretary. The series ran for seven seasons and 124 episodes finishing in 2018. In 2017, she coordinated every one of the six episodes of Combatant Needed, a web series that appeared preceding the 6th season debut and elements Guillermo Diaz as Huck, Katie Lowes as Quinn, Cornelius Smith Jr. as Marcus and George Newbern as Charlie. In 2018, she guided one episode of the last season named “The Commotion”.
During her Outrage years, Darby Stanchfield co-featured in various movies. She showed up in the wrongdoing ghastliness thrill ride Massacre Park (2016), that debuted at Sundance Film Celebration, and co-featured inverse Raza Jaffrey and Stana Katic in The Meeting (2017). She featured close by Emily Bett Rickards and Meaghan Rath in the secret awfulness The Center. In 2018, she was given a role as a lead character’s mom in the show Justine. She likewise played lead character’s mom in the 2020 sentiment show movie Stargirl coordinated by Julia Hart.
On January 30, 2019, it was declared that Darby Stanchfield had been projected in the series standard job of Nina Locke on the Netflix extraordinary show series Locke and Key The principal season debuted on February 7, 2020 to positive audits from pundits.
Filmography
Film
Film | |||
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2005 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Sibyl Vane | |
2007 | Waitress | Francine Pomatter | |
2008 | The Square Root of 2 | Rachel Lehrer | First film with Darby Stanchfield as a lead role |
2008 | The Sacrifice | Loretta Johnson | Monaco International Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress |
2009 | Open House | Beth Dunne | Short film |
2011 | Clay | Woman | Short film |
2011 | Finding Hope | Loretta | |
2011 | The Guest Room | Karen | |
2011 | Fixing Pete | Cynthia | |
2015 | Loserville | Evelyn MacDonald | |
2016 | Carnage Park | Ellen San Diego | |
2016 | The Rendezvous | Ruthie | |
2018 | The Clinic | Emily | |
2019 | Justine | Alison Green | |
2020 | Stargirl | Gloria Borlock | |
2020 | Mosquito | Clementine Bell | |
2023 | Willie and Me | Rebecca |
Television
Television | |||
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2000 | Diagnosis: Murder | Nora | Episode: “Hot House” |
2001 | Angel | Denise | Episode: “Happy Anniversary” |
2002 | That ’80s Show | Spokesmodel #1 | Episode: “Road Trip” |
2002 | American Dreams | Amy | Episode: “The Fighting Irish” |
2003 | Monk | Erin Hammond | Episode: “Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame” |
2004 | It’s All Relative | Jordan F. | Episode: “Who’s Camping Now” |
2004 | Good Girls Don’t… | Redhead | Episode: “Whatever Happened to Jane’s Baby?” |
2004 | Strong Medicine | Hilary Davis | Episode: “Code” |
2004 | Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus | Store Clerk | Television film |
2005 | Without a Trace | Kim | Episode: “End Game” |
2005 | 24 | Shari | Episode: “Day 4: 5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m.” |
2005 | The Inside | New Girl | Episode: “New Girl in Town” |
2005 | Nip/Tuck | Aimee Bolton | Episode: “Tommy Bolton” |
2006 | Campus Ladies | Mikka | Episode: “Night of the Condom”[22] |
2006–07 | Jericho | April Green | 15 episodes |
2006–15 | NCIS | Shannon Gibbs | 7 episodes |
2007 | Bones | Connie Lopata | Episode: “The Bodies in the Book” |
2007 | General Hospital | Amelia Joffe | 10 episodes[22] |
2007 | Cold Case | Melissa Carter | Episode: “Thick as Thieves”[22] |
2007 | Exes and Ohs | Sienna | 3 episodes |
2007–08 | Mad Men | Helen Bishop | 5 episodes[23] |
2008 | Private Practice | Tess Milford | Episode: “Tempting Faith”[22] |
2009 | Exes & Ohs | Sienna | Episode: “Fish in a Barrel” |
2009 | The Mentalist | Stevie Caid | Episode: “Paint It Red” |
2009 | Ghost Whisperer | Greer Clarkson | Episode: “Delusions of Grandview”[22] |
2009 | Life | Ella Holden | Episode: “Initiative 38” |
2009 | CSI: NY | Dawn Higgins | Episode: “It Happened to Me” |
2009, 2013 | Castle | Meredith | Episodes: “Always Buy Retail” and “Significant Others”[22] |
2010 | How I Met Your Mother | Marissa Heller | Episode: “Robots Versus Wrestlers”[22] |
2011 | CSI: Miami | Linda Hill | Episode: “F-T-F” |
2011 | Burn Notice | Sadie Forte | Episode: “Eye for an Eye” |
2012–2018 | Scandal | Abby Whelan | Series regular, 120 episodes |
TV Guide Award for Fan Favorite Cast in a Drama Series (2013) | |||
2020–2022 | Locke & Key | Nina Locke | Main role; 28 episodes |
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