Poppy In The Spotlight

Poppy Montgomery Plays FBI Agent In TV Show 'Without A Trace'

(CBS)  Each week, the CBS drama "Without a Trace" follows the FBI's Missing Person Unit as they try to uncover the mystery of someone's disappearance.

Australian actress Poppy Montgomery visited The Early Show to discuss her role as FBI agent Samantha Spade in the successful television series.

Montgomery says "Without a Trace" is a fast-paced series about the Missing Person Squad that uses advanced psychological profiling techniques to trace the whereabouts of victims. Sometimes they are abducted, murdered, suicide victims or simply runaways.

The team reconstructs a "Day of Disappearance" timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance, following one simple rule: Learn who the victim is in order to learn where the victim is.



Some Facts About Poppy Montgomery

• Poppy Montgomery was born in June 19, 1972
  
  
• At the age of 18, the Sydney, Australia, native took a Greyhound bus from Florida to Hollywood and convinced Julia Robert's agent to give her a chance after reading something about him in the book "How To Make It In Hollywood"
  
  
• Montgomery 's mother named her and each of her sisters after flower fairies in a children's book: Poppy Petal, Rosie Thorn, Daisy Yellow, Marigold Sun and Lily Belle
  
  
• Montgomery's breakout role came in May 2001 when she was tapped to star in the CBS miniseries as Marilyn Monroe in "Blonde"
  
  
• Montgomery's feature film credits include "Dead Man on Campus," "The Other Sister," "Life," "American Untitled," "The Cold Equations" and "Devil in a Blue Dress"
  
  
• Montgomery says her biggest influences were Molly Ringwald and Gillian Armstrong.
  
  
• In her spare time, Montgomery enjoys yoga, snowboarding and horseback riding