Emily Mallory Procter (born October 8, 1968) is an American actress. From 2000 to 2002 and in 2006, she played Ainsley Hayes in the NBC political drama The West Wing and from 2002 to 2012, she played Det. Calleigh Duquesne in the CBS police drama CSI: Miami. In 2013, she had a recurring role as FBI agent Amanda Callaway in the fourth season of the USA Network crime drama White Collar.
Emily Procter was born on October 8, 1968. Procter was adopted as an infant by William Procter, a general practitioner, and Barbara Jones, a volunteer worker, and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was three years old when her parents divorced. She has an older brother, Whit, who is also adopted.
Procter is a graduate of Ravenscroft School in Raleigh. While at East Carolina University she became a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. After she received her degrees in journalism and dance at East Carolina, she was employed as a television weather anchor at WNCT-TV in Greenville, North Carolina.