Isabel Gillies (born February 9, 1970, in New York City, New York) is an actress and author. She played Elliot Stabler's wife, Kathy, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 1999 to 2011. In 2009, Scribner published Happens Every Day, her New York Times bestselling memoir.
Gillies landed her first movie role in 1990 when Whit Stillman cast her as Cynthia McLean in his pioneering independent film, Metropolitan. Other film credits include Alison in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), Moira Ingalls in On Line (2002), Isabel in Happy Here and Now (2002), and Kathryn in New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008).
Prior to her role on SVU, Gillies appeared in "Bad Girl," an episode of the original Law & Order series, playing a young woman who murders an undercover police officer and then undergoes a religious conversion during her trial and is born again. In 2000, she played the role of Alison in the short-lived Fox series The $treet.
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