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Rebecca Creskoff

ActorBorn February 1, 1971 (54 years)
Rebecca Creskoff was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Betty Jane Creskoff, a home maker, and Howard Creskoff a lawyer, and has an older sister. Her father is of Russian Jewish decent and her mother is of mostly English and German ancestry--a true Midwestern protestant.

The New Yorker Magazine describes Creskoff as "immensely gifted, with formidable technique" and named her one of the best performers of 2010.

Creskoff studied English literature at the University of Pennsylvania and then, following the advice of her friend and mentor Debra Messing, chose to hone her craft more seriously at the prestigious MFA acting training program at New York University. Classmates included David Costible, Victor Williams, Sean P. Thomas, Glenn Fleshler and Aunjanue Ellis.

Her first job after graduating was the long running Steve Martin play "Picasso At The Lapin Agile" at the Promenade Theater in New York City with Gabriel Macht and Jason Antoon. During this time she supported her theater habit by doing national commercials for products such as Massengill Douche, Budweiser with co-star Cara Buono (Stranger Things) Puff tissues, Olive Garden, Joy dish washing detergent, and Pampers diapers.

Her first television role was playing a waitress on Law and Order: SVU. Later that year she guest starred on the original Law and Order and then returned to Law and Order twelve years later in the role of public defender Veronica Masters in season 20.

Her theater credits include the Broadway play Lousing Louie at Manhattan Theater Club, The All-American at Lincoln Center 3, multiple productions playing Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as numerous plays at the Williamstown Theater Festival (most notably playing Luca in Arms and the Man opposite Christopher Evan Welch) and the Berkshire Theater Festival in Miss Julie opposite Mark Feuerstein and Marin Hinkle. She later starred opposite Feuerstein in the movie Knucklehead and with Hinkle in the play Measure for Measure.

She made her way out west after being cast in Love's Labor Lost at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego directed by Roger Reese. She made a side trip to Los Angeles and her first audition was for E.R. which she did not get. But producer John Wells brought her back in the next day to read for Aaron Sorkin's new show The West Wing. Creskoff was cast in a large guest starring role opposite Rob Lowe with Jamie Denton on the first episode of the second season of the acclaimed hit show. Numerous guest starring and substantial recurring roles followed on The Practice, Justified, Bates Motel, Parenthood, Mad Men, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Girlfriends, Desperate Housewives, Party Down, How I Met Your Mother, Justified, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the mother of the Jonas Brothers, among others.

Her series regular roles include a fiery Irish Catholic mother of two on the WB series Greetings From Tuscon, a fiery Irish Catholic mother of five on the Fox sitcom Quintuplets opposite Andy Richter and then as the fiery pimp Lenore on the HBO series Hung opposite Thomas Jane, Jane Adams and Anne Heche. She most recently played a non-fiery Irish Catholic mother of three on the NBC pilot Where I'm From and on the CBS pilot Taxi-22 opposite John Leguizamo.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Mad Men
  • I Melt with You
  • Girltrash: All Night Long

Known For

  • Hung
  • ClearMind
  • Echo Valley
  • Quintuplets
  • Friends and Family
  • Knucklehead
  • The Suspect
  • Girltrash: All Night Long
  • Greetings From Tucson

Filmography

2025
Echo Valley · as Emma Hanway
2024
Elsbeth (TV Series) · as Tracy Crenshaw
2024
ClearMind · as Nora
2018
Single Parents (TV Series) · as Big Red
2017
Claws (TV Series) · as Melba Lovestone / Melba Locklear
2017
Feud (TV Series) · as Happy Rockefeller
2014
Girltrash: All Night Long · as Casting Director
2013
Bates Motel (TV Series) · as Christine Heldens
2013
The Suspect · as Shannon
2011
2011
Love Bites (2011) (TV Series) · as Marissa
2010
Knucklehead · as Tina
2010
$#*! My Dad Says (TV Series) · as Chloe
2010
Justified (TV Series) · as Carol Johnson
2010
Parenthood (2010) (TV Series) · as Carly Barow
2009
Hung (TV Series) · as Lenore Bernard
2009
Jonas (TV Series) · as Sandy Lucas
2009
Party Down (TV Series) · as Liddy Mcspadden
2008
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series) · as Anne Fields
2007
Mad Men (TV Series) · as Barbara Katz
2006
Hannah Montana (TV Series) · as Nurse Carol
2006
The New Adventures of Old Christine (TV Series) · as Hilary
2005
How I Met Your Mother (TV Series) · as Geraldine
2004
Desperate Housewives (TV Series) · as Stacy Strauss
2004
Quintuplets (TV Series) · as Carol Chase
2003
NCIS (TV Series) · as Hillary Taffet
2002
Greetings From Tucson (TV Series) · as Elizabeth Tiant
2001
Friends and Family · as Jenny Patrizzi
2001
Kristin (TV Series) · as Janis
2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV Series) · as Heidi
2000
Girlfriends (TV Series) · as Jennifer Miller
1999
The West Wing (TV Series) · as Sarah Jordan
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Waitress
1998
Finding North · as Gina
1997
The Practice (TV Series) · as Dr. Jeannie Reynolds
1990
Law & Order (TV Series) · as Charlotte Wexman

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