Arija Allison Bareikis is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Officer Chickie Brown in the TV crime drama ''
Southland''. She is also known for the films ''
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'' and ''
The Purge''.
Early life and education
Bareikis is Lithuanian. She is a 1988 graduate of
Stanford University. Her mother is Carol Harton and her father, Bob Bareikis, is a professor of Germanic literature at
Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Campuses
Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI.
* Indiana Univers ...
. She has one sister, Anitra.
Career
Bareikis starred alongside
Rob Schneider
Robert Michael Schneider (; born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'', he went on to a career in feature films, including starri ...
as Kate in ''
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'' (1999) and played
LAPD
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the municipal Police, police department of Los Angeles, California. With 9,974 police officers and 3,000 civilian staff, it is the thir ...
police officer Chickie Brown in the police drama series ''
Southland'' for its first three seasons. , Bareikis' most recent screen role was a 2016 episode of the television series ''
Power
Power most often refers to:
* Power (physics), meaning "rate of doing work"
** Engine power, the power put out by an engine
** Electric power
* Power (social and political), the ability to influence people or events
** Abusive power
Power may ...
'', as MJ.
Filmography
References
External links
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Actresses from Indiana
American film actresses
21st-century American actresses
American people of Lithuanian descent
American television actresses
Living people
Stanford University alumni
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people)