Megan Gallagher wanted to act from the time she was five years old. She later took drama lessons when she was in high school. She moved to New York to attend the Juilliard and appeared in the Broadway cast of "A Few Good Men" where she won two theater awards (Theatre World and Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding debut) for her Broadway ...
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Debut Performance
Movies
The Ambulance, National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Like Father, Like Santa, Lethal Vows, Get a Job, A Time to Remember, August Rush, Champagne Charlie, ...And Then She Was Gone, First to Die, Inhabited, A Leap of Faith, Contagion, Homeland Security, Ripple
TV Shows
Millennium, The Larry Sanders Show, Nowhere Man, Pacific Station, China Beach, The Slap Maxwell Story, Hill Street Blues
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Fact
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Attended Julliard and trained under the tutelage of famed acting teacher John Houseman.
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Played the role of Joanne Galloway in the original Broadway production of Aaron Sorkin's 'A Few Good Men' alongside Bradley Whitford.
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The producers of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) requested a "Megan Gallagher type" for the role of Nurse Garland in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Little Green Men (1995). Upon hearing about this, her agent contacted them and said that Gallagher might be able to do it herself. She was then offered the role.
Before appearing in movies, she appeared in an off-off-Broadway production of the August Strindberg play, "Miss Julie", in the basement of a church on East 90th Street in New York City. She was a lovely fresh-faced 23 year old at the time (c. 1983). There could not have been more than 20 people in the audience, but they were all captivated by her. Her later success was too long delayed but totally expected.
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She is known to stay away from red meat.
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She has a basset hound named Henry and two cats.
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Megan is the second youngest of six kids. She has three brothers and two sisters.
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