Marg Helgenberger Net Worth

Marg Helgenberger's Quotes

• I doubt it will be any kind of an intimate relationship. We always will have some closeness, but I think we have just a marriage of the minds, the two of us, and he's great to work with (William Petersen). A bit of yin and yang in that relationship, for sure. [asked if Catherine's relationship with Gil Grissom might ever turn romantic]
• [on Madonna] Life will always be good as long as Madonna is around. I don't think of her as a guilty pleasure anymore - she's an outright pleasure. [In Style magazine, September 2006]
• We had a murder taking place at a foam party... which once again made me feel so old. So often I'm like "What the hell's that?".

Interesting Facts about Marg Helgenberger

1. Received her Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Speech (now the School of Communications) at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).
2. On ER (1994) episode #2.21, ER: Take These Broken Wings (1996), the character she played, Karen Hines, wears a Northwestern University pullover.
3. Has a son: Hugh Howard Rosenberg (born October 21, 1990). He was named after Marg's father, who died in 1986 of complications from Multiple Sclerosis.
4. Got her start as a local news weather girl in her native Nebraska. The news producer felt her name was too long and made her change it to Margi McCarty. This was her night job. Her day job was as a meat boner at the meat packing plant where her father was a meat inspector.
5. Her home in Hollywood, California once belonged to silent movie star William S. Hart.
6. Six years before the premiere of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), she and Gary Dourdan starred together in an unsuccessful television pilot called Keys (1994).
7. Had a plane scare while attempting to fly from Dallas, Texas to Omaha, Nebraska. The pilot aborted take-off after the plane blew two tires. Marg eventually succeeded to Omaha [October 20, 2005].
8. Former sister-in-law of Mark Rosenberg and Paula Weinstein.
9. Is the middle of three children. Her older sister is Ann Helgenberger (jazz musician) and her younger brother is Curt Helgenberger (a meat inspector).
10. Daughter of Hugh Helgenberger, who was a meat inspector, and Kay Helgenberger, who was a nurse. Marg originally wanted to be a nurse like her mother.
11. Attended and graduated from North Bend Central High School in North Bend, Nebraska.
12. Had met ex-husband, Alan Rosenberg, in 1984 and they started dating in 1986.
13. Her hometown of North Bend, Nebraska named a local street after her called Helgenberger Avenue.
14. Has been portrayed in several CSI games.
15. Her 51st birthday was the same date of airing the conclusion of the CSI series' trilogy crossover episodes.
16. Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 23, 2012.
17. Is a huge fan of the NFL's New York Giants.
18. Friends with Joni Mitchell.
19. She has German and Irish ancestry.