An attractive blonde performer, Elisabeth Rohm joined the cast of the long-running NBC series "Law & Order" in the fall of 2001, playing ambitious assistant district attorney Serena Southerlyn.

Born to a German father and an American mother, Rohm was raised in NYC. After her parents' divorce, she was educated at a boarding school in Tennessee and then moved to Miami to try her hand at modeling. When that didn't pan out, Rohm enrolled in college and found her calling when she was cast in her first stage role. Following graduation, she briefly worked as an agent's assistant until she landed her