Early life

Annable was born in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Woodcrest Christian High School in Riverside, California.

Career

Annable made her acting debut at an early age, playing a young, Spanish-speaking student named Rosa in Kindergarten Cop, and later moved on to various television shows and movies such as South Beach and October Road. In 2007, she starred in the Lifetime original movie Reckless Behavior: Caught on Tape and followed it quickly with a lead role in J. J. Abrams' Cloverfield. In addition to this, she made a short appearance in the John C. Reilly comedy film Walk Hard. She also provided the voice of the character Amata in Fallout 3. On January 29, 2008, Variety announced that she would appear in The Unborn, which was released in 2009.

She is featured in the 2009 music video for "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" by Weezer.

She starred as Melanie in the Fox comedy, Breaking In. On August 24, 2011, the show was renewed by Fox for thirteen episodes and was scheduled to air in the midseason comedy block. Fox canceled the series May 2011 and it ended its run April 2012.

In October 2011, Annable began starring in Fox's House as Dr. Jessica Adams, a former prison doctor hired by Dr. Gregory House to join his team. She made her first appearance in the eighth season premiere titled "Twenty Vicodin" and remained on the show until the series finale episode titled "Everybody Dies" in May 2012.

In February 2013, Annable signed on for the lead role of the ABC drama pilot Westside produced by McG and developed by Ilene Chaiken, but it was not picked up as a series.

In March 2014, Annable was cast as Trudy Cooper in the ABC series The Astronaut Wives Club.

Personal life

She married her former Brothers & Sisters co-star Dave Annable on October 10, 2010. They have one daughter, born in September 2015.

Awards and nominations

Annable was nominated in 2008 for a Teen Choice Award at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie Actress: Horror/Thriller for Cloverfield (2008).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Kindergarten Cop	Rosa
1996	Dear God	Angela
2006	The Holiday	Kissing girl
2007	Transformers	Socialite girl
2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story	Reefer girl
2008	Cloverfield	Elizabeth "Beth" McIntyre
2009	The Unborn	Casey Beldon
2009	Operation: Endgame	Temperance	In select theaters and video-on-demand
2010	Group Sex	Vanessa	Direct-to-video
2010	And Soon the Darkness	Ellie
2010	You Again	Joanna Clark
2011	Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2	Chloe (voice)	Direct-to-video
2011	The Double	Natalie Geary	In select theaters and video-on-demand
2012	Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!	Chloe (voice)	Direct-to-video
2015	The Truth About Lies	Rachel Stone	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Remembrance	Charlotte	TV movie
2004	Quintuplets	Kelly Helberg	Episode: "(Disdainfully) the Helbergs"
2006	South Beach	Arielle Casta	Series regular; 6 episodes
2006	Monk	Courtney	Episode: "Mr. Monk, Private Eye"
2007	Reckless Behavior: Caught on Tape	Emma Norman	TV movie
2007-08	October Road	Aubrey Diaz	Series regular; 19 episodes
2008	Life on Mars	Adrienne	4 episodes
2010-11	Brothers & Sisters	Annie	5 episodes
2011-12	Breaking In	Melanie Garcia	Series regular Season 1; Special guest star season 2; 12 episodes
2011-12	House	Dr. Jessica Adams	Series regular Season 8; 22 episodes
2013	Golden Boy	Ada O'Connor	2 episodes
2013	New Girl	Shane	Episode: "Quick Hardening Caulk"
2013	Westside	Sophie Nance	TV pilot
2013	Anger Management	Jamie	Episode: "Charlie and Lacey Shack Up"
2013-15	Banshee	Nola Longshadow	8 episodes
2014	Two and a Half Men	Nicole	3 episodes
2014	Rush	Sarah	Recurring
2015	The Astronaut Wives Club	Trudy Cooper	Series regular, 10 episodes
2015	The Grinder	Devin Stutz	Episode: "Pilot"

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2008	Fallout 3	Amata Almodovar

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