Adrianne Palicki Biography

Adrianne Lee Palicki (born May 6, 1983) is an American actress best known for her roles as Tyra Collette on the NBC series Friday Night Lights (2006-2011) and as Barbara "Bobbi" Morse on the ABC series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014-2016). She also played supporting roles in the films Legion (2010), Red Dawn (2012), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), and John Wick (2014). She is currently starring as Commander Kelly Grayson in the Fox show The Orville (2017-present).

Early life

Palicki was born in Toledo, Ohio, the daughter of Nancy Lee (ne French) and Jeffrey Arthur Palicki. She has an elder brother Eric, a comic book writer who influenced her interest in comics.

Career

She was a series regular on the first three seasons of NBC's drama series Friday Night Lights from 2006 to 2009, portraying Tyra Collette. In early 2011, she returned for the final two episodes of the series.

In 2003, Palicki also appeared as Judy Robinson in John Woo's unsold pilot, The Robinsons: Lost in Space. In 2006, she also appeared in The WB pilot Aquaman as the evil Nadia. The pilot was not picked up for series by the CW network, a result of The WB and UPN network merger, which occurred while the pilot was being filmed. She appeared as Kara/Lindsey Harrison in the season 3 finale of Smallville. Palicki appeared in Supernatural as Jessica Moore, Sam Winchester's doomed girlfriend who is killed by a demon in its pilot episode. The character reappears in the Supernatural season 2 episode, "What Is and What Should Never Be", and the season 5 episode "Free To Be You and Me."

She made an appearance in the will.i.am music video "We Are the Ones" in support of 2008 presidential hopeful Barack Obama. In 2010, Palicki joined the FOX television drama Lone Star, which was cancelled after two episodes, despite good reviews. In 2011, Palicki portrayed Wonder Woman in a 2011 pilot produced by David E. Kelley for NBC. The pilot was not picked up as a series. She played the recurring role of Dr. Samantha Lake in season one of the sitcom About a Boy in 2014, reuniting with Friday Night Lights showrunner Jason Katims.

Palicki starred in Legion (2010), and co-starred in G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) in the lead female role of Lady Jaye. She also appeared in supporting roles in Red Dawn (2012) and John Wick (2014). Although initially signed on to star in the Jamie Babbit's 2012 horror film Breaking the Girls, due to production delays and scheduling conflicts, she does not appear in the film.

In August 2014, Palicki joined Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in a recurring role as Barbara "Bobbi" Morse. She became one of the principal cast after the midseason break of season 2, continuing until her character was written out of the series near the end of season 3. ABC ordered a pilot episode for a spin-off, Marvel's Most Wanted, featuring her character in the lead role, but did not develop it as a series.

In July 2016, Palicki was cast as Kelly Grayson in The Orville, a science fiction comedy-drama series created by Seth MacFarlane, who also stars in it as Captain Mercer, her character's ex-husband.

In 2016, Palicki and her brother, Eric collaborated on writing their first comic book, titled No Angel, published by Black Mask Studios. The first issue was released November 30, 2016.

Personal life

Palicki has celiac disease.

In September 2014, her representative confirmed that she was engaged to stuntman Jackson Spidell, whom she met on the set of John Wick. Palicki called off the engagement in 2015.

Filmography

Feature film

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes
2005	Popstar	Whitney Addison	Richard Gabai
2006	Seven Mummies	Isabelle	Nick Quested
2009	Women in Trouble	Holly Rocket	Sebastian Gutierrez
2010	Legion	Charlie	Scott Stewart
2010	Elektra Luxx	Holly Rocket	Sebastian Guiterrez
2012	Red Dawn	Toni Walsh	Dan Bradley
2013	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Lady Jaye	Jon M. Chu
2013	Coffee Town	Becca	Brad Copeland
2014	Dr. Cabbie	Natalie Wilman	Jean-Franois Pouliot
2014	John Wick	Ms. Perkins	Chad Stahelski and David Leitch
2015	Baby, Baby, Baby	Sunny	Brian Klugman
2017	S.W.A.T.: Under Siege	Ellen Dwyer	Tony Giglio

Short film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2003	Rewrite	The Pretty Girl
2003	Getting Rachel Back	Rachel
2011	Waves	Girlfriend
2016	#WHERESTHELOVE		The Black Eyed Peas music video
2017	It's Supposed to be Easy	Kris

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Smallville	Kara/Lindsey Harrison	Episode: "Covenant"
2004	Quintuplets	Jessica Geiger	Episode: "Love, Lies and Lullabies"
2004	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Miranda	Episode: "Formalities"
2004	The Robinsons: Lost in Space	Judy Robinson	TV pilot
2005	North Shore	Lisa Ruddnick	2 episodes
2005-2009	Supernatural	Jessica Moore	4 episodes
2006	South Beach	Brianna	8 episodes
2006	Aquaman	Nadia	TV pilot
2006-2011	Friday Night Lights	Tyra Collette	52 episodes
2007	Winter Tales	Mistletoe Girl	3 episodes, uncredited
2007-2016	Robot Chicken	Various characters (voice)	7 episodes
2008	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II	Padm Amidala / Jessica / Lexi (voice)	Television short
2009	CSI: Miami	Marisa Dixon	Episode: "Dead on Arrival"
2009	Titan Maximum	Clare (voice)	4 episodes
2010	Family Guy	(voice)	Episode: "Big Man on Hippocampus"
2010	Lone Star	Cat Thatcher	5 episodes
2010	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III	Padm Amidala / Jessica / Woman (voice)	Television short
2011	Criminal Minds	Sydney Manning	Episode: "The Thirteenth Step"
2011	Wonder Woman	Diana Prince / Wonder Woman	TV pilot (unaired)
2014	From Dusk till Dawn: The Series	Vanessa Styles	2 episodes
2014	Drunk History	Kate Warne	Episode: "Baltimore"
2014	About a Boy	Dr. Samantha Lake	10 episodes
2014	This Is Why You're Single	Maria	TV movie
2014-2016	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Barbara "Bobbi" Morse	31 episodes
2016	Most Wanted	Barbara "Bobbi" Morse	TV pilot (unaired)
2017	The Orville	Commander Kelly Grayson	Series regular