Ellen Muth

Ellen Muth born March 6 1981 is a retired American actress best known for her role as Georgia George Lass in Showtimes series Dead Like Me 20032004 series 2009 film As of 2004 she was a member of Intertel and Mensa highIQ societies She attended the Skip Barber Racing Schoo and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute After a brief stint as a model with Ford Models and Rascals Agency Muth pursued a career in acting studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City and getting her first professional experience doing commercials in 1993 Her first major role was in the 1995 film Dolores Claiborne She followed that with a role in the eighthseason premiere of Law Order Her appearance as the daughter in the 1999 film The Young Girl and the Monsoon earned praise from Stephen Holden of The New York Times for her range in portraying a character who one minute can be as clinging as a baby and the next delights in cruelly demolishing the nearest grownup with laserlike sarcasm and her chemistry whenever Constance who narrates the film is on the screen with her father Hank Terry Kinney She starred in the 200304 Showtime television series Dead Like Me in the role of Georgia George Lass the protagonist and one of a team of grim reapers After some delay Dead Like Me Life After Death a film directed by Stephen Herek based on Dead Like Me and featuring many members of the shows cast including Muth was released directtovideo in March 2009 In 2012 she returned to the big screen in the romantic comedy Margarine Wars alongside Robert Loggia and Doris Roberts The film debuted in Los Angeles on March 29 2012 In 2013 she made a guest appearance in two episodes of the first season of the TV series Hannibal produced by Bryan Fuller the creator of Dead Like Me In a 2015 interview she confirmed that she had hit the pause button on the acting part of her life