Mary Marg Helgenberger is an American film and television actress known for her roles as Catherine Willows in the CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and as K.C. Koloski in the ABC drama China Beach, which earned her the 1990 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Marg Helgenberger was born in Fremont, Nebraska and was raised in North Bend, Nebraska. Marg graduated from North Bend Central High School. She is the daughter of Mary Kay , a nurse, and Hugh Helgenberger, a meat inspector. She is of Irish and German descent and had a Roman Catholic upbringing. Marg... has one older sister named Ann and a younger brother named Curt. One of her first jobs, as a teenager, was spending her summers and her Christmas breaks working as a "deboner" at the meat packing plant where her father was employed. Helgenberger played the French horn in her high school marching band. Until she went to college, Helgenberger wanted to be a nurse like her mother. Marg attended Kearney State College in Kearney, Neb.
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| Birthdate: | November 16, 1958 |
| Birthplace: | Fremont, Nebraska |
| Age: | 53 |
| Height: | 5' 6" |
| Education: | Northwestern University School of Communication, North Bend Central Jr/Sr High School |
| Religion: | Roman Catholicism |
| Also known as: | Mary Marg Helgenberger, Mary Helgenberger |