Bess Rous

Bess Rous is an American actress who began her screen career with a guest role on Third Watch in 2004 and later had guest parts on Law & Order, Mad Men, Gossip Girl, The Mentalist, and Blue Bloods. Born in Short Hills, New Jersey, she earned a BFA in acting from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts and also completed a certificate program at the London Academy of Theatre. Her first film appearance came in What Just Happened, released in 2008. In 2014 she took her first regular television role in the first season of TNT's Murder in the First, playing a Silicon Valley prodigy's employee and mistress opposite Tom Felton. A year later she was a series regular on Yahoo! Screen's Other Space, playing Karen Lipinski, the temperamental first officer of a spaceship. She appeared in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, which reunited her with Other Space creator Paul Feig.