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Homing Instinct
Standing in the doorway of her three bedroom, Spanish style house in Santa Monica, actress Marg Helgenberger yells a warning to her 10-year-old-son Hugh as he runs out to meet a friend: "Make sure you tie your shoes!" A few minutes later, when her husband, actor Alan Rosenberg, comes down the stairs with his arms full of laundry, Helgenberger stops him so she can find a certain green sweater, then sends him off to the dry cleaner. "My little house-husband," she jokes.L
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Her sense of fun and feistiness came relatively late, Helgenberger says. "As a girl, I played by the rules and behaved myself. I didn't rock the boat." The middle child of a school nurse and a meat inspector living in North Bend, Nebraska, she started working at age 11, weeding the fields of a soybean farm. "I wanted to buy things I knew my parents couldn't afford," she says, "like albums and costume jewelry."
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From Jenny Cooney L.A. - 18/192
Marg's role as a mother has taken over since her tv show was cancelled
Since she starred in the Vietnam War series "China Beach". Marg Helgenberger's life has change drastically.
When the series took off in 1988, it earned Marg stardom as the hooker K.C. and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a TV series.
But, more important, it was during this time that she bumped into a former cast-mate from the soap Ryan's Hope - Alan Rosenberg, in a bank where Marg was opening an account after moving from New York to Los Angeles.
They have been married 2 years and a half and have a son Hugh.
"I opened an account and a relationship" Marg jokes.
The pair eloped in 1989, when China Beach - now back on the Nine Network - was one of the hottest shows on TV.
Now, as Marg talk to TV WEEK on her car phone in L.A. between auditions for movie roles, her husband is on his way to New York to take over the lead role of the Broadway production of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers.
"We're very supportive of each other", Marg says. "A lot of that attitude I attribute to Alan. He is a very generous guy and always said that my success was his success, so now I think the same way and it just hasn't been a problem."
"I'd like to be in New York with him but I'll be going back and forth because most os the work is here in Los Angeles"
Although Marg is demand for TV projects, her roles as wife and mother now dictate her choices. "I did 10 days work on a project in Canada earlies this year and I went without the baby but spent the whole time questioning why I did it and had a terrible time missing Hugh (named after her late father)", she says.
"My baby put everything else into perspective. He's the cutest baby in the world and the most precious thing to me is his-well-being and happiness. I have this great desire to go skydiving but if there's a chance that the chute won't open, I won't take that rink because I'm also his mother and need to be there for him for a long time."
Although China Beach was the show which launched Marg to stardom she also admits she was somewhat relieved when it was finally canceled.
"I was burned out and ready to say goodbye to the character and show" she confess.
"The last season was really though for me because I was pregnant, and they wrote that into the show with my character. Then I took a month off to have the baby but had to return to the schedule of a weekly series.
"I didn't want to leave the baby to go to work but I had no choice at that point. I felt I suffered, the baby and my work suffered"
Although Marg won critical acclaim in China Beach, she's refreshingly honest about the problem she's had getting into movies. She had a small role in 1989 in Steven Spielberg's 'Always' but has not had a film role since.
"I've turned down lots of things that I didn't want to do on TV," she admits. "But making the movies into features has not been easy. "People think I've played one character too long and I'll be too identifiable with her on the big screen. But it's also a game and regardless of whether you're good or not, you have to play your dues and be on certain lists and work your way up"
The two TV roles Marg has landed since China Beach folded last year were the telemovie Death Dreams, with Chistopher Reeve, and the upcoming telemovie with "In sickness and in Heath", with Lesley Ann Warren and Tom Skerritt.
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