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Mel Harris
0.9 Popularity
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
Known For
5.5
Dr. Deborah Wingard
Arthur's Whisky
2024
0.0
Kathy
Queen of Knives
2023
4.3
Kathy
King of Knives
2020
7.2
Margaret Jonson
Imposters
2017
6.8
Shawna
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2015
6.0
Maggie Johnson (uncredited)
Imagine That
2009
5.7
Margaret
The Lodger
2009
5.6
Constance Hughes
Cane
2007
4.0
Saints & Sinners
2007
4.9
Mel Harris
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
2005
Credits
Arthur's Whisky
as Dr. Deborah Wingard
2024
5.5
Queen of Knives
as Kathy
2023
0.0
King of Knives
as Kathy
2020
4.3
Imposters
as Margaret Jonson
2017
7.2
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
as Shawna
2015
6.8
Imagine That
as Maggie Johnson (uncredited)
2009
6.0
The Lodger
as Margaret
2009
5.7
Cane
as Constance Hughes
2007
5.6
Saints & Sinners
2007
4.0
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
as Mel Harris
2005
4.9
Criminal Minds
2005
8.3
Criminal Minds
as Congressman Steyer
2005
8.3
E-Ring
2005
7.9
Close to Home
as Beth Murphy
2005
5.9
Out of the Woods
as Beth Fleming
2005
5.2
Purple Heart
as Dr. Harrison
2005
4.6
Dynamite
as Faye Baxter
2004
2.9
House
as Barbara Bardach
2004
8.6
CSI: NY
as Julie Rollins
2004
7.4
🎬
If...
2004
0.0
Cold Case
as Grace Anderson
2003
7.8
Hangman's Curse
as Sarah Springfield
2003
5.1
Another pretty face
2002
3.5
The Retrievers
as Karen Lowry
2001
5.0
Firetrap
as Cordella Calloway
2001
5.0
Sonic Impact
as Co-Pilot Jennifer Blake
2000
5.4
The Mumbo Jumbo
as Dolly Bird
2000
0.0
Madigan Men
2000
6.0
Strong Medicine
as Biddy Hightower
2000
7.3
Out of Time
as Annie Epson
2000
4.9
The West Wing
as Ricky Rafferty
1999
8.2
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Eileen Switzer
1999
7.9
Dawson's Creek
as Helen Lindley
1998
7.3
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
as Sarah McLeish
1997
7.0
Stargate SG-1
as Oma Desala
1997
8.3
What Kind of Mother Are You?
as Laura Hyler
1996
3.7
Something So Right
as Carly Davis
1996
4.5
🎬
A Case for Life
as LIz Hemmitt
1996
4.3
Sharon's Secret
as Laurel O'Connor
1995
5.0
The Secretary
as Ellen Bradford
1995
4.7
The Outer Limits
as Dr. Christina Markham
1995
7.7
Welcome to Paradise
as Claire
1995
4.5
The Pagemaster
as Claire Tyler
1994
6.4
Broken Lullaby
as Jordan Kirkland
1994
3.7
Touched by an Angel
as Kelly Rockhill
1994
7.2
Ultimate Betrayal
as Susan Rodgers
1994
7.0
🎬
The Spider and the Fly
as Dianna Taylor
1994
4.2
Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story
as Allison Wilcox
1993
6.0
Suture
as Dr. Renee Descartes
1993
6.4
Distant Cousins
as Katherine June Sullivan
1993
5.5
🎬
With Hostile Intent
as Kathy Arnold
1993
6.0
Wind Dancer
as Susan Allen
1993
7.0
Child of Rage
as Jill Tyler
1992
5.7
Raising Cain
as Sarah
1992
6.1
Grass Roots
as Kate Rule
1992
0.0
The Burden of Proof
as Sonia Klonsky
1992
3.4
My Brother's Wife
as Eleanor Goldberg-Rusher
1989
0.0
Cross of Fire
as Madge Oberholtzer
1989
6.5
K-9
as Tracy
1989
6.2
Cameron's Closet
as Dr. Nora Haley
1988
4.7
thirtysomething
as Hope Steadman
1987
6.1
Harry's Hong Kong
as Fay Salerno
1987
0.0
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Terry
1987
5.9
Heart of the City
as Anne
1986
5.0
M*A*S*H
1972
7.9