During the summer she also worked as a deboner at her father's meat packing plant. Helgenberger at the 1990 Emmy Awards, Helgenberger got her start as a nightly weather girl at KHGI-TV Kearney, Nebraska while attending college (her name was changed by the producer to Margi McCarty). Marg attended Kearney State College (now the University of Nebraska at Kearney) in Kearney, Neb., then attended Northwestern University's School of Speech in Evanston, Illinois (now the School of Communication) and earned a B.S. Until she went to college, Helgenberger wanted to be a nurse like her mother. Helgenberger played the French horn in her high school (North Bend Central High School) marching band. One of her first jobs, as a teenager, was spending her summers and her Christmas breaks working as a 'deboner' at the meat packing plant where her father was employed. Marg has one older sister named Ann and a younger brother named Curt. She is of Irish and German descent and had a Roman Catholic]upbringing. She is the daughter of Mary Kay (nГ©e Bolte), a nurse, and Hugh Helgenberger, a meat inspector. Marg graduated from North Bend Central High School. Marg (pronounced with a hard 'G', unlike the name Marge) Helgenberger was born in Fremont, Nebraska and was raised in North Bend, Nebraska.

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