Emily Swallow was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Sterling, VA and Jacksonville, FL. Intending to pursue a career as a Foreign Service Officer, she earned a BA in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Virginia. An audition for NYU’s Graduate Acting Program caused her to change course, and she moved to New York to work towards her MFA. On television, Emily is best known for Supernatural (2005), The Mentalist (2008), How to Get Away with Murder (2014), Monday Mornings (2013) and Southland (2009) Emily continues to act on stage whenever she can, starring in world premieres of Donald Margulies play The Country House at LA’s Geffen Playhouse, opposite Mark Rylance in Louis Jenkins’ play Nice Fish at the Guthrie Theatre, in John Patrick Shanley’s musical Romantic Poetry at Manhattan Theater Club and in High Fidelity on Broadway. She was part of the LA Drama Critics’ Circle Award-Winning 2016 production of Disgraced at the Mark Taper Forum in LA and she won the Falstaff Award for best Female Performer in 2010 for her performance as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew at the Old Globe in San Diego In 2012, Emily and fellow singer/comedienne Jac Huberman created a stage show called Jac N Swallow, which they perform in New York at the Laurie Beechman Theater and Joe’s Pub. The show centers on the comic misadventures of the duo and has played to sold-out crowds Emily devotes much of her spare time to volunteer work for the West LA/Malibu Chapter of The Surfrider Foundation, an environmental non-profit dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our oceans, waves and beaches.