Emily Swallow

Emily Swallow is an American actress best known for her starring role as neurosurgical resident Dr Michelle Robidaux a 20something resident who is inexperienced yet eager and is finding her footing among giants in the medical drama television series Monday Mornings Swallow grew up in Jacksonville Florida She received her bachelors degree from the University of Virginia where she majored in Middle Eastern studies Latter Swallow moved to New York City and earned a masters degree in acting from New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts On television and film Swallow has been on both sides of the law playing a detective on Ringer a detectives wife on Southland a bounty hunter on the CBS pilot The Odds a bank robber on Medium and even a patriotic RVtraveling hooker in The Lucky Ones For good measure she also played a mermaid on Flight of the Conchords and starred in the independent feature The Rift directed by Shana Sosin