Paige Turco

Background

Turco was born to Joyce Jean (Jodoin) and David Vincent Turco, in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she was raised.

Education

She attended the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts, and performed as a soloist at the New England Dance Conservatory, the Amherst Ballet Theatre Company, and the Western Massachusetts Ballet Company. lieutenant was too painful." Paige graduated from Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Massachusetts (1987) and majored in drama at the University of Connecticut.

Career

Other notable roles include Melanie Cortlandt on the American Broadcasting Company soap opera All My Children, Terri Lowell in the Columbia Broadcasting System series The Agency, and appearances in American Gothic, New York City Police Department Blue, Party of Five and Person of Interest. Since March 2014, she has starred as Abigail Griffin in the post-apocalyptic drama series, The 100. She took ballet lessons as a little girl and planned to become a classical ballerina.

An ankle injury ended the possibility of professional ballet.

She remarked that after that, "I couldn"t even go to the ballet anymore. Turco made her television acting debut in 1987, on the Columbia Broadcasting System soap opera Guiding Light as Dinah Marler, and appeared on the soap opera All My Children as Melanie.

She replaced Judith Hoag in the role of April O"Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) and later in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993). She then starred in a number of small films and returned to television with a role in the short-lived 1994 National Broadcasting Company primetime soap, Winnetka Road, opposite Catherine Hicks.

The following season, Turco starred in another short-lived series, American Gothic on American Broadcasting Company. She later had recurring roles in New York City Police Department Blue as Officer Abby Sullivan, and on Party of Five as Annie Mott, a single mother who is also a recovering alcoholic.

Turco starred in the Columbia Broadcasting System drama series The Agency as graphic artist Terri Lowell, from 2001 to 2003. Turco also appeared in the 2006 film Invincible, playing Carol Vermeil, the wife of Dick Vermeil, and also costarred in the Walt Disney picture The Game Plan (2007). She appeared in multiple episodes of Damages, and guest-starred on The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

She also appeared in a recurring role on Person of Interest as Zoe Morgan.

In March 2014, Turco began starring as a series regular in The CW post-apocalyptic drama series, The 100. In same year, she also was cast as the lead character"s wife in Columbia Broadcasting System"s NCIS: New Orleans.

Connections

teacher:

Nell Turbody