Katie Walder
ActingBiography
Katie Elizabeth Walder is the youngest of 5 children - 2 brothers and two sisters. She started acting at a young age in musicals and plays in school, and did some print work as a young teen in such magazines as Teen and YM. She went on to study theatre in college, and upon moving to NYC after graduation, started working professionally in theatre with notable Broadway directors such as Michael Greif (original director for "Rent"), Keith Reddin and Daniel Aukin. Katie soon moved to Los Angeles and quickly landed a recurring role on the 4th Season of Gilmore Girls (2000) as "Janet Billings", the quirky/tough/athletic college roommate of Rory. She has been working steadily in film & TV ever since. Along with Gilmore Girls, Walder is best known for her recurring roles on How I Met Your Mother as Shannon and Mad Men as Sherry. She has appeared in over 40 television shows, including New Girl, Franklin & Bash, Fairly Legal, The Good Wife, Supernatural, and Rules of Engagement. In 2007, she played Tori (Zach's girlfriend) in the award-winning independent film "Shelter." In 2014, she starred in the horror film "Come Back to Me."
Movies
(11 total)
The Open House
as Allison
Shelter
as Tori
Extreme Movie
as Drunk Girl
Come Back to Me
as Sarah
The Neighbor
as Nancy
A Christmas to Treasure
as Tipper Tisdale
Cupid
as Trina
30 Nights
as Megan
McBride: Semper Fi
as Kaia Rourke
It Happened in L.A.
as Zafu Girl
The Energy Specialist
as Paige
TV Shows
(23 total)
Supernatural
as Fate / Atropos
How I Met Your Mother
as Shannon
The Mentalist
as Nancy Sterling
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Carey Thorne
Scorpion
as Jane Addison
Grimm
as Elisha
How to Get Away with Murder
as Kelly Bryce
CSI: Miami
as Melinda Carson
New Girl
as Cheryl
S.W.A.T.
as Stacey
Station 19
as Nancy
Mad Men
as Sherry
Gilmore Girls
as Janet Billings
Lethal Weapon
as Denise Barnes
The Good Wife
as Jennifer Lewis
Cold Case
as Beth Adams (1978)
Without a Trace
as Claire Norton
Rules of Engagement
as Claire
Hustle
as Janet
