A Year and Six Seconds

Isabel Gillies is an American actress and author. She was born in New York City, New York, on February 9, 1970 and graduated from NYU with a BFA in film.

Best known as Kathy Stabler, the wife of Detective Elliot Stabler on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Gillies played a number of roles in an acting career that spanned two decades.

Her memoir about the failure of her first marriage, Happens Every Day, was published in 2009 and became a New York Times Bestseller. Her follow-up memoir, A year and Six Seconds, was published in 2011.

Gillies' first foray into fiction, the young adult novel, Starry Night, was published in 2014.

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