Mel Harris
Mel Harris is an American actress, writer and director, best known for her portrayal of Hope Steadman on the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning series Thirtysomething (1987), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination as best Actress in a Drama Series. She starred in the NBC comedy Something So Right (1996) and the My Network drama series Saints and Sinners (2014). Her most recent role has been as Nadine Davies on Hulu's new series Shut Eye (2016)
Mary Ellen Harris was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and raised in New Jersey. Her mother was a high school science teacher and her father a football coach at Princeton University. She spent 12 years in the modeling world living in New York and Europe before stumbling into the acting business. She starred in numerous miniseries and telefilms including Cross Fire (1989), The Burden of Proof (1992) and Grass Roots (1992), as well as appearances on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), and as Senator Rafferty on The West Wing (1999). Among her feature film credits are Brian De Palma's Raising Cain (1992) , K-9 (1989) (opposite Jim Belushi), Suture (1993), The Pagemaster (1994), and Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986).
She made her New York stage debut at the Circle Repertory Company in the world premiere of John Bishop's Empty Hearts, for which she received a 1992 Theater World Award. In addition to her acting, in the last few years, she has focused on writing with her partner and husband, Emmy Award winning writer/producer, Bob Brush, under their shingle Topanga Moon Productions.
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Fotos
Películas (39)
Arthur's Whisky
2024 · Dr. Deborah Wingard
Queen of Knives
2023 · Kathy
King of Knives
2020 · Kathy
Imagine That
2009 · Maggie Johnson (uncredited)
The Lodger
2009 · Margaret
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
2005 · Mel Harris
Out of the Woods
2005 · Beth Fleming
Purple Heart
2005 · Dr. Harrison
Dynamite
2004 · Faye Baxter
Hangman's Curse
2003 · Sarah Springfield
Another pretty face
2002
The Retrievers
2001 · Karen Lowry
Firetrap
2001 · Cordella Calloway
Sonic Impact
2000 · Co-Pilot Jennifer Blake
The Mumbo Jumbo
2000 · Dolly Bird
Out of Time
2000 · Annie Epson
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997 · Sarah McLeish
What Kind of Mother Are You?
1996 · Laura Hyler
A Case for Life
1996 · LIz Hemmitt
Sharon's Secret
1995 · Laurel O'Connor
The Secretary
1995 · Ellen Bradford
Welcome to Paradise
1995 · Claire
The Pagemaster
1994 · Claire Tyler
Broken Lullaby
1994 · Jordan Kirkland
Ultimate Betrayal
1994 · Susan Rodgers
The Spider and the Fly
1994 · Dianna Taylor
Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story
1993 · Allison Wilcox
Suture
1993 · Dr. Renee Descartes
Distant Cousins
1993 · Katherine June Sullivan
With Hostile Intent
1993 · Kathy Arnold
Wind Dancer
1993 · Susan Allen
Child of Rage
1992 · Jill Tyler
Raising Cain
1992 · Sarah
Grass Roots
1992 · Kate Rule
My Brother's Wife
1989 · Eleanor Goldberg-Rusher
K-9
1989 · Tracy
Cameron's Closet
1988 · Dr. Nora Haley
Harry's Hong Kong
1987 · Fay Salerno
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1987 · Terry
Series (27)
Imposters
2017 · Margaret Jonson
Shut Eye
2016 · Nadine Davies
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2015 · Shawna
Cane
2007 · Constance Hughes
Saints & Sinners
2007
Mentes Criminales
2005 · Congressman Steyer
E-Ring
2005
Close to Home
2005 · Beth Murphy
Dr. House
2004 · Barbara Bardach
CSI: NY
2004 · Julie Rollins
If...
2004
Cold Case
2003 · Grace Anderson
Madigan Men
2000
Strong Medicine
2000 · Biddy Hightower
The West Wing
1999 · Ricky Rafferty
La Ley y el Orden: Unidad de Víctimas Especiales
1999 · Eileen Switzer
Dawson's Creek
1998 · Helen Lindley
Stargate SG-1
1997 · Oma Desala
Something So Right
1996 · Carly Davis
The Outer Limits
1995 · Dr. Christina Markham
Touched by an Angel
1994 · Kelly Rockhill
The Burden of Proof
1992 · Sonia Klonsky
Cross of Fire
1989 · Madge Oberholtzer
thirtysomething
1987 · Hope Steadman, Director
Heart of the City
1986 · Anne
M*A*S*H
1972
Bitches in Britches
· Creator