After bouncing around for nearly a decade from one forgettable role to another, blond Aussie import Poppy Montgomery finally arrived as one of the new millennium’s brightest TV stars. A popular cover girl for such testosterone-friendly publications as Maxim, FHM and Stuff, Montgomery was voted TV’s “Hottest Cop” in a 2005 Maxim readers’ poll for her role as FBI agent Samantha “Sam” Spade on the hit CBS crime procedural, “Without a Trace” (CBS, 2002- ).Born Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Devereaux Donahue on June 19, 1972 (though she herself claimed 1975) this native of New South Wales, Australia
