Poppy Montgomery : Role - Samantha ‘Sam’ Spade

Birthday : 19 June 1972

Birth Place : Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Birth Name : Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Deveraux Donahue.

Height : 5′5″

Gender : Female

Recent Role : Samantha Spade on Without a Trace

Poppy Montgomery was born on the 19 June 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales. She is the daughter of Phil Donahue, a restaurateur and Nicola, an executive and market researcher. She left her studies halfway in the Ascham School in Edgecliff, New South Wales to travel along with her then boyfriend to the USA. She was 18 at that time. Now she is the mother of a son by her boyfriend, Adam Kaufman.

Once in Los Angeles, a penniless Poppy started her struggle and constantly contacted Julia Robert’s agent. She got to play many minor roles but then got several breaks in 1996. She had a role in ‘NYPD Blue’ and ‘Party of five’ in 1996. Then she acted in some more TV shows like ‘The Beat‘(2000), ‘Glory Days’ (2002) and ‘Without a Trace’ (2002). She has also acted in many films like ‘Tammy And The T-Rex‘, ‘Peacock Blues’, ‘The Other Sister’, ‘Blonde‘, ‘Between‘, etc. She played “Marilyn Monroe” in ‘Blonde‘.

She was nominated in the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2004, in the category of Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for ‘Without a Trace’.

Role in Without a Trace

Poppy Montgomery plays the role of “Samantha Spade” in ‘Without a Trace’ tv show. She is the special agent in FBI’s missing persons case squad. She is the daughter of Patricia and she killed her mother’s then boyfriend for sexually abusing her elder sister. She was a New York City police officer before joining FBI. She was married at the age of 18 but the marriage did not last long. She also had an affair with “Jack“, her married boss. She had several romantic ventures with some other persons too. Her romance with fellow agent “Martin” disturbed her emotionally and she was shocked after “Martin” was shot. She later helped him to recover. She also had a one- night stand with a bartender and gave birth to a son by him.