Clare Carey plays frustrated Brentwood housewife Christine Emory in “Crash.” A versatile film and TV actress, Carey has appeared in such feature films as the action-crime drama Smokin Aces’ and the comedy Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.

She is best known for her TV roles, most recently as the home-wrecking bartender Mary Bailey in “Jericho” during 2006 to 2008. She was a regular on “Point Pleasant” during 2005 to 2006, playing the mother of the Jesus character, and on the comedy series “So Little Time” starring the Olsen twins. Carey initially came to recognition during her long-running role as Coach’s daughter, Kelly Fox, on the TV series “Coach,” from 1989 to 1995.

Carey’s colorful guest-starring roles include such memorable parts as sex maniac Eileen Dodd on “Weeds”; the wife of a man becoming a woman on “Grey’s Anatomy”; a high-class hooker who called herself a “satisfaction facilitator” on “ER”; and a repentant abortion-clinic bomber on “Without a Trace.” She has also appeared in “Army Wives,” “Boston Legal,” “Judging Amy,” “Ally McBeal,” “Charmed,” and “Walker, Texas Ranger,” and in the TV movies 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out and Home Alone 4.

Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to a missionary-doctor father and schoolteacher mother, Carey was one of eight children. She moved to Santa Barbara, CA, with her family at less than a year old, and grew up there. She started acting at age 6, and has studied with acting coach Harry Mastrogeorge. Carey is based in Los Angeles.