- Born
- Birth nameBonnie Jean Somerville
- Nickname
- Bonz
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Bonnie was raised by her mother, and her mother's large Irish Catholic family in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her mother is one of 9 children. Bonnie started acting and singing at a young age, appearing in all the high school plays at Poly Prep Country Day School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. She attended Boston College as a Musical Theater major and left to move back home to New York to try acting professionally. Bonnie sang in many bands in the NYC music scene, and had a development deal to sing her own music at 17 years old. She was noticed by a modeling scout while waiting tables in NYC and did some modeling in New York and Europe, only to return more focused on acting. She packed her bags and moved to Los Angeles at age 22, very quickly had a band, and then an agent. One of her first auditions, after getting an agent, was for the lead role in CBS's mini-series, Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999), in which she also sang. She now lives in Los Angeles.
- IMDb mini biography by: Mel Mckeon
- SpouseDavid McClain(April 8, 2023 - present)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsMaureen Barry Somerville
- RelativesSibling(Sibling)
- Began a music career when at the age of 17 she was discovered in a club in NYC singing with her high school band named " Fearful Symmetry". She had a development deal with RCA records and then Interscope Records when she moved to Los Angeles at the age of 22. After getting dropped from Interscope she finally turned to pursuing getting a theatrical agent and acting full-time. She waited tables,worked part time jobs in LA, while modeling and writing music and recording demos for other artists until booking her first Leading Role on the mini- series "Shake Rattle and Roll" on CBS in 1999. She sang in that alongside Terence Trent D'Arby and B.B King amongst others.
- She wrote and recorded the song "Winding Road" for the Grammy-winning soundtrack of her then boyfriend Zach Braff's movie Garden State (2004). He specifically requested she record the song for the soundtrack.
- Was mugged in the early morning hours of October 18, 2008 after leaving a Hollywood launch party for a new T-Mobile cell phone by a group of men, one of whom shot and seriously wounded her friend.
- Sang female lead with Band From TV, which also featured Hugh Laurie, James Denton, Bob Guiney, and Greg Grunberg. The Band recorded an album called "Hoggin All the Covers" for charity which is available on Amazon . Bonnie is known for singing Janis Joplin covers and Blues in the band.
- Irish- American. Her maternal and paternal great-grandparents both immigrated to America from Ireland during the Famine. Her great-grandmother Nora McBride's farm is still family-owned and run in Sligo, Ireland.
- It's always fun to play the bitch.
- I'm always studying (acting)
- My Mom took me to see Annie on Broadway when I was little and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing. I was that annoying little girl who sang the (Annie) soundtrack all the time. My Mom would be like, "please stop with the singing!". All I've ever wanted was to do a musical.
- [her view on Code Black (2015)] I've never seen anything like this on TV. You're seeing, what actually goes on. The accuracy and attention to detail...it's amazing.
- [on the pressure of working in the background, on Code Black (2015)] "You never know when the cameras will be on you,"
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