Cari Shayne

Over the course of her career, Cari Shayne has amassed an impressive resume with leading roles in numerous television pilots, television series, feature films, and made-for-TV-movies. Cari began her career as a teen, starring as Karen Wexler on the daytime drama General Hospital (1963) and quickly parlayed into prime-time when she recurred as Neve Campbell's best friend on the hit Fox series Party of Five (1994). Shayne has also carried a number of made-for-television movies such as Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge (1995) in which she portrayed the life of the young, country music sensation, Naomi Judd. She starred alongside Thomas Gibson, Meredith Baxter, and Tom Conti as the lead character in Louisa May Alcott's The Inheritance (1997), the western classic Shaughnessy (1996) with Sarah Paulson, and The Price of Heaven (1997) directed by Peter Bogdanovich in which she starred with Grant Show and the incomparable Cicely Tyson. Cari has guest-starred and recurred on a long list of television shows such as Cold Case (2003), The Division (2001), Star Trek: Voyager (1995), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990), to name a few, and also starred in the television pilots, Forbidden Island (1999) and "Dope." After appearing as Detective Rachel Harding on Criminal Minds (2005) in 2008, Cari decided to take a break from acting and enrolled in nursing school to explore the medical field. After training in the trenches at LA County USC Medical Center, Cari became a high-risk Obstetrical Nurse, working with both women and babies in a hospital setting. After an 11-year hiatus, Cari has returned to her television roots as Dr. Genevieve Cates in the Emmy Award-winning series The Bay (2010) on Amazon and recently made an appearance as Jack and Rebecca's maternity nurse in This is Us.