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Emily Wagner was born and raised in New York City's Upper West Side. She began her acting career at age 6 as the youngest member of the theatrical troupe The Merry Mini Players. She starred in the cult 80s NBC/PBS series High Feather.

By the time she arrived at Vassar, she had put acting on the back burner in order to focus on a rigorous education. She graduated from Vassar with a BFA degree in Art History and Fine Art. It was there that she also grew serious about creative writing and began to write short stories and plays. Post college, Emily returned to NYC to study acting with Susan Batson, then moved to Los Angeles where she has played paramedic Doris Pickman on ER since the show's second episode.

Emily co-created, wrote, produced and starred in several short and feature films, some with her brother Andrew (Counting, South Main), some with her longtime collaborator Julie Delpy (Blah, Blah, Blah) and some with both of them Looking for Jimmy (2002) and Careful, all of which went on to have impressive festival runs. She is also an artist and shows with the Acuna-Hansen gallery in LA's Chinatown.

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She attended the 2005 Sundance Film Festival with the film The Talent Given Us (2004), directed by her brother Andrew Wagner, in which she and sister Maggie Wagner star.

Served as a panelist on a digital filmmaking symposium at the AFI FEST 2000 where Looking for Jimmy (2002) premiered. She starred in and co-created this film directed by her longtime friend, actress/director/screenwriter Julie Delpy, and her brother, director Andrew Wagner.

She is an accomplished artist and shows with the Acuna-Hansen Gallery in Chinatown, LA and Mixture Comtemporary Art in Houston, Texas.

Emily has written, produced and starred in three short films which have gone to many prominent festivals, including Sundance, Telluride, Toronto and many more.

Starred in the Julie Delpy-directed short film Blah Blah Blah (1995), which she and Delpy co-wrote and took to the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.

She is also a DJ and loves 70s and 80s funk, soul and disco classics of which she has a huge record collection.

Niece of director Mark Rydell.

Daughter was born April 8, 2006.

Stars in Motherhoodlum, a verite-style comedy series on youtube (www.youtube.com/emwags) that she co-created with Chelsea Gilmore, producer of The Talent Given Us. The show takes an irreverent, hilarious and unapologetic look at the perilous world of new parenthood. It's a Curb Your Enthusiasm for the stroller set!.

Emily attended the Sundance Film Festival is 2008, starring in the film Chronic Town.

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