Elisabeth Röhm

Elisabeth Röhm (, German: [eˈliːzabɛt ˈʁøːm]; born April 28, 1973) is a German-American television and film actress. She is best known for playing Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn in the American TV series Law & Order and Detective Kate Lockley in the TV series Angel. 2Early life Röhm was born in Düsseldorf, West Germany, to Lisa Loverde and Eberhard Röhm. Her father was a German-born partner at the law firm of Duane Morris LLP New York, moving with her family to New York City before her first birthday. Her mother was an American scriptwriter, who once wrote for the TV soap opera Guiding Light. Röhm’s parents divorced when she was 8 or 9. Her maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant. Röhm attended grades 3-12 at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, a small private boarding school in Sewanee, Tennessee, and then graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied writing and European History. 2Career Röhm received her first TV acting role in 1997, as Dorothy Hayes in the American soap opera One Life to Liv