Carla Gallo is an American actress, whose fame was her roles in Fox television shows, “Undeclared” as Lizzie Exley and “Bones” as Daisy Wick.
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Early life and family
Carla Paolina Gallo was born on June 24, 1975 in Brooklyn, New York, United States to parents Samuel Eugene Gallo and Mildred Josephine Coiro. While both of her parents were born in Ohio, her grandparents on both sides were Italian immigrants and her maternal great-grandparents were of German descent. She and her older sister were therefore raised in a diverse multi-ethnic household.
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Even as a young child, she had shown an interest in performing on stage, and although her mother was not so keen on it due to Carla’s inability to memorize lines as quickly as her peers, she was adamant about joining a theater group. Luckily, the elementary school theater principal was able to convince her mother to let Carla play the role of Cinderella in the school play, “The Final Dress Rehearsal.” From then on, she knew she would pursue an acting career.
Education
For elementary school, she attended Berkeley Carroll Street School, then enrolled at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, New York in 1993, and later graduated a bachelor’s degree in theater from Cornell. University.
Career
First steps
Not everyone knew she was in “Spanking the Money,” a 1994 dark comedy directed by David O. Russell that was a commercial success, earning nearly $1.5 million against a budget. $200,000; she filmed it when she was in college.
After college, she auditioned for many roles and filmed pilot episodes, but not all of them aired. She made her television debut playing a minor role in the legal drama series “Law & Order” in 1999, and a year later she was in the hospital drama series “ER”, both of which aired on NBC.
more success
After playing these minor roles, in 2001 Carla got her first opportunity to be a series regular, starring with Jay Baruchel and Charlie Hunnam in the American sitcom “Undeclared” which aired on the Fox network. She played Lizzie Exley, a neurotic freshman for two seasons.
After the show was canceled in 2003, she jumped straight into another series – “Carnivàle” – a period drama set in the 1930s, airing on HBO. She starred as Libby Dreifuss and was a regular cast member for two seasons. with Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown and Amy Madigan.
Carla returned to the big screen after a big TV experience and starred in Judd Apatow’s directorial debut, ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin,’ starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd.
It was a commercial success with gross revenues of $178 million against a budget of $26 million. In 2006, she had a minor role in the hit movie “Mission Impossible III”, starring Tom Cruise and directed by JJ Abrams.
While making films, she also made several appearances on popular television series, including “Crossing Jordan”, “House” and “NCIS”, and had a recurring role on “Californication” for one season in 2008, appearing in 11 episodes.
After the writers’ strike in Hollywood, Carla was broken up, but luckily she was offered a longer and more prominent recurring role on the detective series “Bones”, starring Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz.
She was cast as Jeffersonian Institute intern Daisy Wick for the fourth season in 2008, and lasted until the final season in 2017, with 39 episodic appearances.
Although Carla did not become a major player in the entertainment world, she worked continuously as part of the supporting cast in numerous television series. Carla even reprized her role as Daisy Wick from “Bones” in another crime procedural drama series, “Rosewood,” when dramatic crossovers became a trend at the time. She also landed recurring roles on “Men of Certain Age” in eight episodes (2009-2011), “Burning Love” in four episodes (2012-2013), and “Blue” in five episodes (2013-2014).
Other notable television appearances from 2011 to 2017 were in “2 Broke Girls” with Beth Behrs and Kat Dennings (2011); “Children’s Hospital”, a parody sitcom about other hospital dramas starring Rob Corddry and Lake Bell (2013); and “Future Man,” a comedy series that aired on Hulu (2017).
Her film career did not blossom compared to her career in television, but she was involved in several films, including “Neighbors”, a comedy with Seth Rogen and Zac Efron in 2014, and due to her commercial success , reprized her role in the sequel, “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising.”
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Carla was then in “Little Evil”, a supernatural comedy with Adam Scott and Evangeline Lily in 2017 broadcast on Netflix, followed by an appearance in “Room For Rent”, a Canadian comedy with Brett Gelman and Mark Little, an official entry in the Atlantic Film Festival and San Diego International Film Festival in 2017, and was invited to the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2018.
Private life
Carla married her longtime boyfriend, Mark Satterthwaite, on October 8, 2017, at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, California. The couple have two daughters from before their marriage: Ellie born in 2014 and the youngest born in May 2017.
She’s a very protective mother, and after growing up in New York City with men rubbing her privates during rush hour on the subway, she said she wouldn’t let her daughters go anywhere without her.
Her husband is a Canadian screenwriter and producer, who is best known for his work on Canadian television series, including “Gary and his Demons”, “Cupcake & Dino: General Services”, and specials such as “Gemini Awards”, and “Much Music Video Music Awards.”
Previous relationship
Carla previously dated actor Nick Stahl for four years, from January 2003 to 2007. They met on the set of the television series ‘Carnivàle’ and would be seen together publicly attending red carpet events and film premieres.
Interesting facts
- Her best friend, actress Sarah Paulson, urged her to move to Los Angeles to pursue television acting in earnest after graduation.
- She worked as an internet “receptionist” for a former Playboy model, answering emails from fans, in the age of social media apps.
- She prefers to do comedy and would spend time working on ideas instead of doing drama, which she finds stressful, but she can do both.
- The bravest thing she did for a role was to strip down and never do it again for any reason.
- She has started writing scripts, but nothing has been released yet.
Appearance
She is 1.63m (5ft 4in) tall, weighs around 54kg (120lbs) and her vital stats are 35-25-35. She is of Italian-German descent, with long black hair and brown eyes.
Net value
Authoritative sources estimate Carla’s net worth at over $2 million, as of June 2020.
