Isabel Gillies (born February 9, 1970, in New York City, New York) is an actress and author. She played Elliot Stabler's wife, Kathy, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Her memoir, "Happens Every Day," was a New York Times bestseller, and her most recent book is the young adult novel Starry Night.

Biography

Gillies grew up in New York City. She attended the Brearley School until age sixteen. She then attended the Nightingale-Bamford Schooll from eleventh grade until her graduation. Gillies struggled with severe dyslexia all throughout school. She is the daughter of Linda and Archibald Gillies. She graduated from New York University with a BFA in Film. She went to Rhode Island School of Design as a freshman before dropping out to film Metropolitan, and then finished college at NYU.

She was married to DeSales Harrison, an English professor at Oberlin College, from 1999 to 2005.

Gillies married Peter Lattman, an editor at The New York Times, on October 13, 2007.