Mel Harris
Known For
Acting
Born
1956-07-12 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Biography
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. - IMDb mini biography by: mel harris
Most Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Eileen Switzer
House
as Barbara Bardach
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
as Congressman Steyer
Stargate SG-1
as Oma Desala
The West Wing
as Ricky Rafferty
Dawson's Creek
as Helen Lindley
M*A*S*H
CSI: NY
as Julie Rollins
Cold Case
as Grace Anderson
The Outer Limits
as Dr. Christina Markham
Strong Medicine
as Biddy Hightower
Touched by an Angel
as Kelly Rockhill
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
as Shawna
thirtysomething
as Hope Steadman
Imposters
as Margaret Jonson
Close to Home
as Beth Murphy
Imagine That
as Maggie Johnson (uncredited)
Heart of the City
as Anne
Cane
as Constance Hughes