10 Things You Didn't Know About Emily VanCamp

By Tom Baker /

7. She Guest Starred In A Law And Order Episode

As is almost a rite of passage for all American actors - young or old, film or telly, brilliant or scenery-chewing - Emily VanCamp had a one-episode guest role on an episode of Law And Order: Special Victims Unit. You know, the police procedural which stars former €œCop Killer€ rapper Ice-T as the member of a unit that investigates crimes involving sexual assault. VanCamp starred in the 2007 episode €œDependent€, from the eighth season of the long-running series. She played Charlotte Truex, a teenage girl who appears to have murdered her mother and attacked her mob lawyer father whilst under the influence of a lot of drugs. She€™s a party girl who doesn€™t remember her nights out, y€™see. The role is essentially homicidal Lindsay Lohan, with VanCamp€™s character gaining an extra layer of tragedy when her boyfriend (a possible accessory to the murder) dies of a heart attack whilst in custody. In the end they give her truth serum - because giving her more drugs seemed like a good idea - and it turns out the boyfriend did it after all. Hooray!