Pope started her career with several small roles, such as
Disturbing Behavior,
Snow Day,
Aliens in the Wild, Wild West, and
Night Man, before being cast as
Sam McPherson on
The WB's comedy-drama television series
Popular (1999–2001). The series followed two teenage girls, Pope and
Leslie Bibb, who reside on opposite ends of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to get along when their single parents meet on a cruise ship and get married. Pope was named one of
Teen People's 25 Hottest Stars Under 25 in 2000. Her breakthrough role was playing Abbey in
Disturbing Behavior (1998), who was in a flashback sequence, but it was cut when the film was released. Pope had several roles in film and television, including
The Glass House,
Jeff Probst's ''
Finder's Fee, and Orange County. In 2004 she had starred as Maya Kandinski in The Collector''. In 2005, she was a guest-star in an episode of
FOX's
Tru Calling and played an aspiring social worker in the film
Eighteen. In 2007, Pope starred in the Power Up project
Itty Bitty Titty Committee, and in
Martin Gero's "intelligent sex comedy" and
Toronto International Film Festival hit,
Young People Fucking. In 2009, she appeared in
FOX's hit thriller,
24, as Samantha Roth, the president's son's girlfriend. Pope joined the main cast of the
NBC legal drama television series
Outlaw in 2010, portraying Lucinda Pearl. In 2015, Pope co-produced the Canadian
documentary film Highway of Tears. She portrayed architect Tara Messer on
USA Network's legal drama series
Suits (2016–2017). On July 26, 2019,
The Hollywood Reporter announced that Pope will appear in
Hallmark Channel's Christmas-themed television film,
Double Holiday (2019) opposite
Kristoffer Polaha. ==Personal life==