Isabel Gillies

Isabel Gillies is an American author and actress who began acting when Whit Stillman chose her for the role of Cynthia McLean in Metropolitan (1990). Her other film credits include Another Girl Another Planet (1992), I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), On Line (2002), Happy Here and Now (2002), and New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008). On television, she played Kathy Stabler, the wife of Elliot Stabler, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 1999 to 2011, and she reprised the role in 2021 and in flashbacks. She appeared in an episode of the original Law & Order and in the Fox series The $treet in 2000. As a writer, Gillies has published four books. Her 2009 memoir, Happens Every Day, became a New York Times bestseller and was named an NPR Fresh Air Top Ten Book of 2009. She followed it with A Year and Six Seconds in 2011, the young-adult novel Starry Night in 2014, and Cozy in 2019.