Meg Thalken is an American stage, film and television actress, known to television viewers as Chopper EMT Dee McManus on NBC's ER. Other television credits include guest appearances on What's Your Emergency?, Chicago Fire, Detroit 1-8-7, What About Joan, Turks, EZ Streets, Chicago Hope, Early Edition, The Untouchables, Jack and Mike, and Chicago Story.

Film credits include Henry Gamble's Birthday Party, Bad Johnson, Hannah Free, U.S. Marshals, A Family Thing, The Babe, Poltergeist III, Through Naked Eyes, and Class.

Theatre credits include Shrink/Ed/Pat/Others in Domesticated (Steppenwolf Theatre); Alice Croll in Rapture, Blister, Burn (Goodman Theatre); Beth in Tribes (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Maria in I Am Going to Change the World (Chicago Dramatists Theatre); Edith Dundee in The Metal Children (Next Theatre); Maureen in The Fairy Queen (Rivendell Theatre); and Sheila in A Guide For The Perplexed (Victory Gardens Theater).