Jorja Fox

Jorja Fox is an American actress who grew up in Melbourne Beach, Florida. She won a local contest that launched a modeling career and later studied drama at New York City's Lee Strasberg Institute under William Hickey. Minor parts in films and television, including a 1993 episode of Law & Order, gave way to her breakthrough as Dr. Maggie Doyle on the NBC medical drama ER from 1996 to 1999. Next came a recurring turn as Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano on The West Wing in 2000 and a brief appearance in Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000). She played Sara Sidle, a Las Vegas forensic scientist, on the CBS crime drama as a regular and recurring cast member from 2000 to 2015, and returned to the part in a sequel that premiered in 2021. Fox also produced the musical Stay Forever, about Dusty Springfield, and appeared in the film Velocity Trap (1999).