In 2006, Gish played the role of Julia in the independent movie The Celestine Prophecy and costarred in Candles on Bay Street alongside Eion Bailey and Alicia Silverstone. She appeared several times over the following seasons, rounding out the fictional Bartlet family also consisting of First Lady Abigail Bartlet ( Stockard Channing) and daughters Ellie ( Nina Siemaszko) and Zoey ( Elisabeth Moss). In 2003, Gish guest-starred on The West Wing playing Elizabeth Bartlet Westin, eldest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet ( Martin Sheen). While it is generally agreed their performances were good, ratings continued to drop with the departure of Duchovny and his dynamic with Gillian Anderson the ninth season of The X-Files became the show's last. During the eighth and ninth seasons, Gish and fellow newcomer Robert Patrick became the show's principal characters and it was presumed that the two could carry on the show even after Gillian Anderson left.
In 2001, Gish joined the cast of The X-Files as Special Agent Monica Reyes after series star David Duchovny announced his intention to leave the show. In 1998, Gish starred in SLC Punk!, released September 24, 1998, as a head shop owner named Trish.
In 1997, she starred in the TV movie True Women as Euphemia Ashby alongside Angelina Jolie and Dana Delany. In 1997, Gish received her first starring role in a movie, portraying Susan Sparks opposite Shaquille O'Neal in the movie adaptation of DC Comics superhero Steel.
In 1996, Gish played the girlfriend Tracey in Beautiful Girls.
The next year, she appeared in Oliver Stone's Nixon as Julie Nixon. In 1994's Wyatt Earp starring Kevin Costner, she played Urilla Sutherland, Wyatt's childhood sweetheart and eventual wife. The soundtrack album was on Sire/Warner Bros. The film features Carolina shag dancing and was produced in cooperation with the North Carolina Film Commission. The film also starred Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, Page Hannah, Jeff Yagher and Scott Coffey. Gish portrayed Anne Hampton, the doomed second wife of Rhett Butler in 1994 in the TV mini series Scarlett.Īnnabeth Gish also had a major part in the 1989 comedy, "Shag: The Movie". In 1989, Gish got her first major TV film role in When He's Not a Stranger as a rape victim Lyn McKenna. She played the sister of Julia Roberts' character in 1988's Mystic Pizza. In 1987, she starred in the film Hiding Out with Jon Cryer. Numerous television and film appearances followed. She received a BA in English in July 1993. She attended Duke University where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and focused her energies on the drama program, film studies and women's studies. Gish went to Northern University High School in Cedar Falls, Iowa where she graduated in 1989. During this time she was active in the Lutheran denomination and became fluent in Spanish. Her first starring role was in the 1986 teen film Desert Bloom. She is best known for her roles as Special Agent Monica Reyes on The X-Files, Elizabeth Bartlet Westin on The West Wing and as Eileen Caffee on the Showtime drama Brotherhood. Annabeth Gish is an American actress known for starring roles in Shag, Mystic Pizza and Double Jeopardy.