---
name: "Isabel Gillies"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/isabel-gillies"
fi1m_id: "isabel-gillies"
imdb_id: "nm0318879"
tmdb_id: 171613
wikidata_id: "Q745346"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "9 February 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T21:46:51.990459+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Isabel Gillies

## Identity

Isabel Gillies

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/isabel-gillies
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** isabel-gillies
- **IMDb ID:** nm0318879
- **TMDB ID:** 171613
- **Wikidata ID:** Q745346
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Gillies, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q745346, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318879/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/171613

Actor. Born 9 February 1970 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 9 February 1970, New York City, New York, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Gillies, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q745346, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318879/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/171613

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Metropolitan*](https://film.one/film/metropolitan.md) (82)

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## Biography

Isabel Gillies is an American actress and author. She made her film debut as Cynthia McLean in Whit Stillman's *Metropolitan* (1990). She graduated from New York University with a BFA in film.

Gillies is known for her recurring role as Kathy Stabler in the television series *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999–2021) and appearances in *Law & Order: Organized Crime* (2021). Other credits include *I Shot Andy Warhol* (1996), *Nadja* (1995) and *Sex and the City* (1998). She has also written memoirs, including the *New York Times* bestseller *Happens Every Day*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Metropolitan* (1990), Fi1m 82, as Cynthia McLean — [page](https://film.one/film/metropolitan.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Law & Order: Organized Crime* (2021), series, as Kathy Stabler
- *Joy Behar: Say Anything!* (2009), series, Actor
- *New Orleans, Mon Amour* (2008), as Kathryn
- *Happy Here and Now* (2002), as Isabel
- *On_Line* (2002), as Moira Ingalls
- *The Girl Under the Waves* (2001), as Isabel
- *The $treet* (2000), series, as Alison
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Kathy Stabler
- *Wishful Thinking* (1999), as Susan - Roommate
- *Chocolate For Breakfast* (1998), as K.C.
- *Sex and the City* (1998), series, as Elaine
- *One Way Out* (1996), as Betsy
- *I Shot Andy Warhol* (1996), as Alison
- *The Vampire Project* (1995), Actor
- *Nadja* (1995), as Waitress
- *Comfortably Numb* (1995), as Ashley Van Dyne
- *Straight to One* (1993), as Leslie Green
- *Another Girl Another Planet* (1992), as Finley
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Monica Johnson — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Metropolitan* (1990), as Cynthia McLean — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/metropolitan.md)
- *Home* (1990), as Student
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, as Cynthia McLean

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