A patrician blonde with a sexy gleam in her eyes, Sonya Walger made her first major impression as part of the sexed-up sextet at the core of NBC’s adaptation of the hit BBC comedy “Coupling.”

Walger was born to a British mother and Argentine father and raised in London, where she studied English literature at Oxford University, performing in student plays in her spare time. After getting an agent while still at Oxford, she went on to work in regional theaters for two years before launching into British film and television. She first met American stand-up comedian-turned-writer-director Mike