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Mel Harris
Actor, Director, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn July 12, 1956 (69 years)
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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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.
- IMDb mini biography by: mel harris
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Mel Harris Filmography
| 2024 | Arthur's Whisky · as Dr. Deborah Wingard |
| 2024 | Queen of Knives · as Kathy |
| 2020 | King of Knives · as Kathy |
| 2017 | Imposters (TV Series) · as Margaret Jonson |
| 2016 | Shut Eye (TV Series) · as Nadine Davies |
| 2015 | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (TV Series) · as Shawna |
| 2014 | Like Sunday, Like Rain · as Sally |
| 2009 | Imagine That · as Maggie Johnson |
| 2009 | The Lodger · as Margaret |
| 2007 | Cane (TV Series) · as Constance Hughes |
| 2007 | Saints & Sinners (TV Series) |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | Loving Annabelle · as Minor Role |
| 2005 | Close to Home (TV Series) · as Beth Murphy |
| 2005 | Criminal Minds (TV Series) · as Congressman Steyer |
| 2005 | E-Ring (TV Series) |
| 2005 | Out of the Woods · as Beth Fleming |
| 2005 | Jake in Progress (TV Series) · as Tally Hughes |
| 2005 | Purple Heart · as Dr. Harrison |
| 2004 | Family Under Siege · as Faye Baxter |
| 2004 | House (TV Series) · as Barbara Bardach |
| 2004 | CSI: NY (TV Series) · as Julie Rollins |
| 2004 | North Shore (TV Series) · as Mrs. Jensen |
| 2003 | Cold Case (TV Series) · as Grace Anderson |
| 2003 | Hangman's Curse · as Sarah Springfield |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | The Retrievers · as Karen Lowry |
| 2001 | Firetrap · as Cordella Calloway |
| 2000 | The Mumbo Jumbo · as Dolly Bird |
| 2000 | Madigan Men (TV Series) |
| 2000 | Strong Medicine (TV Series) · as Biddy Hightower |
| 2000 | Out of Time · as Annie Epson |
| 1999 | Sonic Impact · as Co-Pilot Jennifer Blake |
| 1999 | The West Wing (TV Series) · as Ricky Rafferty |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Eileen Switzer |
| 1998 | Dawson's Creek (TV Series) · as Helen Lindley |
| 1997 | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest · as Sarah Mcleish |
| 1997 | Stargate SG-1 (TV Series) · as Oma Desala |
| 1996 | What Kind of Mother Are You? · as Laura Hyler |
| 1996 | Something So Right (TV Series) · as Carly Davis |
| 1996 | A Case for Life · as Liz Hemmitt |
| 1995 | Sharon's Secret · as Laurel O'connor |
| 1995 | JAG (TV Series) · as Dora Cresswell |
| 1995 | The Secretary · as Ellen Bradford |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits (1995) (TV Series) · as Dr. Christina Markham |
| 1995 | Welcome to Paradise · as Claire |
| 1994 | The Pagemaster · as Claire Tyler |
| 1994 | Broken Lullaby · as Jordan Kirkland |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel (TV Series) · as Kelly Rockhill |
| 1994 | The Spider and the Fly · as Dianna Taylor |
| 1994 | Ultimate Betrayal · as Susan Rodgers |
| 1993 | Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story · as Allison Wilcox |
| 1993 | Suture · as Dr. Renee Descartes |
| 1993 | Distant Cousins · as Katherine June Sullivan |
| 1993 | With Hostile Intent · as Kathy Arnold |
| 1993 | Wind Dancer · as Susan Allen |
| 1992 | Child of Rage · as Jill Tyler |
| 1992 | Raising Cain · as Sarah |
| 1992 | Grass Roots · as Kate Rule |
| 1992 | The Burden of Proof (TV Series) · as Sonia Klonsky |
| 1989 | My Brother's Wife · as Eleanor Goldberg-Rusher |
| 1989 | Cross of Fire (TV Series) · as Madge Oberholtzer |
| 1989 | Cross Fire · as Madge Oberholtzer' |
| 1989 | K-9 · as Tracy |
| 1988 | Cameron's Closet · as Dr. Nora Haley |
| 1987 | Thirtysomething (TV Series) · as Hope Steadman |
| 1987 | Rags to Riches (TV Series) · as Jessica |
| 1986 | Wanted: Dead or Alive · as Terry |
| 1986 | Heart of the City (TV Series) · as Anne |
| 1986 | The Wizard (TV Series) · as Jane Whittier |
| 1985 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (TV Series) · as Girlfriend |
| 1972 | M*A*S*H (TV Series) |