Bonnie Somerville
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Bonnie was raised by her mother, and her mother's large Irish Catholic
family in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her mother is one of 9 children! Bonnie
started acting and singing at a young age, appearing in all the high
school plays at Poly Prep Country Day School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
She attended Boston College as a Musical Theater major, and left to
move back home to New York to try acting professionally. Bonnie sang in
many bands in the NYC music scene, and had a development deal to sing
her own music at 17 years old. She was noticed by a modeling scout
while waiting tables in NYC, and did some modeling in New York, and
Europe, only to return more focused on acting. She packed her bags and
moved to Los Angeles at age 22, very quickly had a band and then an
agent. One of her first auditions, after getting an agent, was for the
lead role in CBS's mini-series, Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999), in which she also sang. She
now lives in Los Angeles.
