KATHLEEN ROBERTSON

AGE AND OCCUPATION: 27, actor. PROVENANCE: Hamilton, Ontario. THERE'S A LESSON HERE FOR TORI: Let's get this out of the way—Robertson spent three seasons on Beverly Hills 90210. "It was my first American job. I was 18. When I finished, I had to be really careful. I had to pass on stuff that would've been nice to do financially." THREE'S A CROWD: Robertson found herself in the middle of a love triangle in Gregg Araki's 1999 dark comedy, Splendor, and this winter finds herself on a different side of the triangle in XX/XY, with Mark Ruffalo and Maya Stange. "The budget was $700,000, and I made, like, $20, but there's nothing like working on something when everybody is there for the right reason." NARROW SHOES TO FILL: This fall Robertson returns to Fox in David E. Kelley's Girls Club, the unofficial replacement for Ally McBeal, about—what else?—lawyers. "It's centered around these three girls who just graduated from law school." Set in San Francisco, the show also stars Gretchen Mol and Chyler Leigh. PAGING CHRISTOPHER GUEST: "The first Canadian thing I did was a show called Maniac Mansion, which was basically sketch comedy. It was all the people from SCTV: Martin Short, Eugene Levy—all of them. They are true geniuses. And Catherine O'Hara is just so good!" —KRISTA SMITH

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