Gretchen Egolf, who grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, started acting at a very young age, participating in theater performances. She immediately attended the Juilliard School for drama in New York after graduating high school and found her home in New York and Los Angeles, where she lived and worked ever since. She then appeared in numerous Broadway, off-Broadway and West End theater productions before she starred in television series such as Martial Law where she became a series regular. She also played the recurring character of Vanessa Whitaker in the series Roswell and then graced the film screen in the CBS television movie Gleason, playing the role of Jackie's wife. Egolf's guest appearances on television shows include those in
Law and Order ,
Without a Trace , Century City, Nero Wolfe, Cosby, The Naked Brothers Band and Cracker. She also appeared as a regular on such series Leap of Faith, The Corsairs and the new Journeyman.
Katie Vasser is played by Gretchen Egolf on the new NBC series, Journeyman. Katie is the wife of Dan Vasser, a man who has everything going well for him until he is given the chance to time travel—something that makes him affect other people's lives in a positive and negative way. To make things worse, in one of his time travels, Dan rediscovers his ex-fiancé Livia Beale, who had died many years ago in a mysterious plane crash. How will this affect Dan and Katie's relationship? Journeyman follows the adventures of one man as he gets between his past and current love, and how he deals with traveling through time and effecting change in people's lives.
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