Constance Zimmer (born October 11, 1970) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Dana Gordon on HBO’s Entourage and as Claire Simms on ABC’s critically acclaimed legal comedy-drama Boston Legal. She was also a guest star on NBC’s short-lived Love Bites. She appeared in the Netflix original series House of Cards from 2013 to 2014. She is presently starring in Lifetime’s new television series UnREAL, which premiered in June 2015.
Private life Constance Zimmer
Zimmer is a twice-married man. To begin, she would like to thank special effects artist Steve Johnson, whom she met in the late 1990s while working on Duracell commercials featuring The Puttermans.
Zimmer gave birth to a daughter, Colette Zoe, on January 5, 2008. Her father is director Russ Lamoureux. On June 20, 2010, Zimmer and Lamoureux confirmed their engagement. In October of that year, they married.
Zimmer is a frequent attendee of celebrity charity events. The Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Heifer International are among the organizations she supports.
Childhood and Education Constance Zimmer
Zimmer was born in Seattle, Washington, to parents who immigrated from former East Prussia. She speaks fluent German, stating in a 2015 interview that, even though her parents talked English with her as a child, she spent six weeks of each summer in Germany with her grandmother, who spoke exclusively German. Zimmer decided to pursue a career in acting after falling in love with the craft during her senior year of high school. She was accepted to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena following high school.
Career Constance Zimmer
Zimmer’s stage career was launched with an award-winning performance in a Los Angeles production of Catholic School Girls, for which she was nominated for a Dramalogue Award for Best Actress. After starring in multiple national commercials, most notably for Duracell, she began appearing as a guest on shows such as Ellen, Seinfeld, The X-Files, Gideon’s Crossing, and The King of Queens, in addition to recurring roles on The Wayans Bros., Hyperion Bay, and The Trouble With Normal. She was also cast in a few independent films during that period, including Spin Cycle, Home Room, and Warm-Blooded Killers.
Zimmer finally landed her first series regular role on NBC’s Good Morning, Miami as Penny Barrington, a slothful and burned-out office assistant. Following the cancellation of the series, she spent the second season recurring as Sister Lilly Waters on CBS’s Joan of Arcadia, as well as guest-starring in episodes of NYPD Blue and Jake in Progress. [reference required] Additionally, in 2005, she starred in Tiffani Thiessen’s short film Just Pray. It was chosen to screen at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Zimmer was cast as Brianna, a competitive law student, in the ABC crime/drama series In Justice in early 2006. She joined the cast of Boston Legal in the third season, playing associate attorney Claire Simms. In season four, her character was not reintroduced. Zimmer also starred in the HBO original series Entourage from 2005 to 2011, possibly her most well-known role to date.
Zimmer appeared alongside Brooke Shields, Andrea Bendewald, and Nicole Paggi in the world premiere of the play Girls Talk.
[reference required] Roger Kumble wrote and directed the piece. She also starred as Colleen Rauscher in the NBC summer series Love Bites and made a special appearance as psychiatrist Dr. Abby Burton on USA’s Royal Pains.
In 2014, she was cast as Quinn King, a series regular on Lifetime’s dramedy series UnREAL. The musical has gained widespread critical acclaim, and Zimmer’s performance has been lauded. After four seasons, the series concluded in July 2018. She earned a Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work in the series.
In 2015, she appeared as Rosalind Price in season three of the ABC superhero series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Since 2017, she has been a semi-regular panelist on ABC’s Match Game.
Filmography Constance Zimmer
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Damaged Goods | Angel | Short film |
| 2002 | Home Room | Assistant Kelly | |
| 2005 | Just Pray | Corley James | Short film |
| 2015 | Entourage | Dana Gordon | |
| 2000 | Spin Cycle | Echo | |
| 2011 | Demoted | Elizabeth Holland | |
| 2001 | Farewell, My Love | Kyle | |
| 2015 | Run the Tide | Lola | |
| 2015 | Results | Mandy | |
| 2012 | The Babymakers | Mona | |
| 2018 | Burger Boss | Mother (voice) | Short film |
| 2007 | The Hammer | Nicole | |
| 2008 | Chaos Theory | Peg the Teacher | |
| 2008 | Americanist | The Director | |
| 2019 | Wonder Woman: Bloodlines | Veronica Cale (voice) | |
| 1999 | Warm Blooded Killers | Vicky Portenza | |
| 1998 | Senseless | Zestfully Clean Woman |
Personal life Constance Zimmer
Zimmer is a twice-married man. To begin, she would like to thank special effects artist Steve Johnson, whom she met in the late 1990s while working on Duracell commercials featuring The Puttermans.
Zimmer gave birth to a daughter, Colette Zoe, on January 5, 2008. Her father is director Russ Lamoureux. On June 20, 2010, Zimmer and Lamoureux confirmed their engagement. In October of that year, they married.
Zimmer is a frequent attendee of celebrity charity events. The Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Heifer International are among the organizations she supports.
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | The Day My Parents Ran Away | Girl inline | TV movie |
| 1994 | Babylon 5 | Young woman patient | Episode: “The Quality of Mercy” |
| 1997 | Quicksilver Highway | Female patient | Movie |
| Ellen | Riot Girl | Episode: “Just Coffee?” | |
| Unhappily Ever After | LaVerne | Episode: “Tiffany, the Home Wrecker” | |
| 1998 | Seinfeld | Waitress #2 | Episode: “The Wizard” |
| Jenny | Kaleigh | Episode: “A Girl’s Gotta Come through in a Clutch” | |
| Diagnosis: Murder | Lisa Blake | Episode: “An Education in Murder” | |
| Beverly Hills, 90210 | Millie | Episode: “Reunion” | |
| The Wayans Bros. | Vanessa | 2 episodes | |
| Felicity | Girl | Episode: “The Last Stand” | |
| The King of Queens | Jenny | Episode: “Fixer Upper” | |
| 1998–1999 | Hyperion Bay | Unknown | 2 episodes |
| 1999 | Chicago Hope | Dana | Episode: “A Goy and His Dog” |
| 2000 | The X-Files | Phoebe | Episode: “First Person Shooter” |
| Rude Awakening | Sandi | Episode: “Star 80 Proof” | |
| Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | Mary | Episode: “The Find” | |
| Providence | Megan | 2 episodes | |
| 2000–2001 | The Trouble with Normal | Kristen | 4 episodes |
| 2001 | Gideon’s Crossing | Jessica Kagen | Episode: “Dr. Cherry Must Be Stopped” |
| FreakyLinks | Tori Spangler | Episode: “Subject: The Stone Room” | |
| The Fighting Fitzgeralds | Beth | 5 episodes | |
| Philly | Pamela Tommasino | Episode: “Blown Away” | |
| 2002 | My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star | Siobahn! Ross | 3 episodes |
| 2002–2004 | Good Morning, Miami | Penelope “Penny” Barnes Barrington | 40 episodes |
| 2003 | Mystery Woman | Cassie Tilman / Cassie Thomas (in end credits) | Movie |
| 2004 | NYPD Blue | Zoe Prentiss | Episode: “Dress for Success” |
| 2004–2005 | Joan of Arcadia | Sister Lilly Watters | 11 episodes |
| 2005 | Jake in Progress | Greta | Episode: “Henry Porter and the Coitus Interruptus” |
| 2005–2006 | Out of Practice | Naomi | 2 episodes |
| 2006 | In Justice | Brianna | 13 episodes |
| 2006–2007 | Boston Legal | Claire Simms | 23 episodes |
| 2007 | Notes from the Underbelly | Kelly | Episode: “Oleander” |
| 2009 | Pushing Daisies | Coco Juniper | Episode: “Window Dressed to Kill” |
| Cupid | Hallie Butler | Episode: “The Great Right Hope” | |
| The New Adventures of Old Christine | Amy Hunter | 2 episodes | |
| 2005–2011 | Entourage | Dana Gordon | 21 episodes |
| 2011 | Love Bites | Colleen Rauscher | 7 episodes |
| Royal Pains | Dr. Abby Burton | Episode: “A Little Art, A Little Science” | |
| 2013 | Grey’s Anatomy | Dr. Alana Cahill | 5 episodes |
| The Newsroom | Taylor Warren | 5 episodes | |
| 2013–2014, 2016, 2018 |
House of Cards | Janine Skorsky | 19 episodes |
| 2014 | Hot in Cleveland | Lilly | Episode: “Stayin’ Alive” |
| 2015–2017 | Transformers: Robots in Disguise | Strongarm, Filch (voices) | Series regular |
| 2015–2018 | UnREAL | Quinn King | Series regular |
| 2015 | Complications | Dr. Laster | 2 episodes |
| Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Rosalind Price | 8 episodes | |
| 2016 | Maron | Lindsey | Episode: “Step 1” |
| Better Things | Herself | Episode: “Sam/Pilot” | |
| BoJack Horseman | Skinny Gina/Lindsey | 3 episodes | |
| 2017 | Angie Tribeca | Detective Goldstein | Episode: “Hey, I’m Solvin’ Here!” |
| 2017–2018 | Match Game | Panelist | 6 episodes |
| 2018 | RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars | Herself | Episode: “The Bachelor” |
| Mom | Professor Stevens | Episode: “Ambulance chasers and a Babbling Brook” | |
| 2018–2019 | A Million Little Things | Jeri Huntington | 3 episodes |
| 2019–2020 | Shameless | Claudia Nicolo | 5 episodes |
| 2020 | Condor | Robin Larkin | 6 episodes |
| 2021 | Good Trouble | Kathleen Gale | 6 episodes |
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