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Acting
December 21, 1966
New York City, New York, USA
Michelle Hurd (born December 21, 1966) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She is married to actor Garret Dillahunt. Michelle Hurd is the daughter of actor Hugh L. Hurd. She graduated from Saint Ann's School in 1984 and Boston University in 1988, and studied with the Alvin Ailey School. After her graduation from college, she studied at Great Britain's National Theatre . Her Broadway credits include the 1996 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth flop Getting Away with Murder. Other theater credits include Othello, A.M.L., Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Looking for the Pony at Manhattan Theater Source with her sister Adrienne Hurd. She met her husband, Garret Dillahunt, in 900 Oneonta at Circle Repertory Theater Company. She has won several awards, including the Robbie Award and the California Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for the premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour. She has also appeared in several movies, including Random Hearts, Personals and as the comic book superhero B.B. DaCosta/Fire in the unshown TV-pilot Justice League of America (1997). After working in television roles such as The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover and The Practice, she appeared in a 1997 episode of Law & Order. Her performance as a corrupt FBI informant caught the attention of L&O producer Dick Wolf, who two years later cast her in the spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Det. Monique Jeffries. She co-starred with Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay for the first season before leaving the series in 2000, but she did appear in the first, seventh and sixteenth episodes of season two, her final appearance being in March 2001. In 2001, she appeared in the Showtime original series Leap Years, where her character was the on and off love interest of a bisexual character played by her real-life husband. Television roles include parts in Charmed, The O.C., According to Jim, Shark, Bones and Gossip Girl. In 2006 - 2007, she had a recurring role on ER as television news producer Courtney Brown, who became close to Dr. Kerry Weaver. She played Diana, the leading rôle, in the Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company's 10 February–29 March 2009 production of Lope de Vega's Dog in the Manger. She won a Robbie Award as "best actress" for her work in the world premiere of The Violet Hour at South Coast Repertory. She played in Hamlet at the North Shore Theater. In 2010, Hurd began a starring role on the A&E Network drama The Glades, playing Colleen Manus.

Violetta Chamberlain
2025

Kat
2025

Lorraine
2024

Self
2024

Carol
2023

Odessa Smith
2023

Debbie Anders
2023

Bar Owner
2023

Commander Raffi Musiker
2023

Maxine
2021

as Violetta Chamberlain

as Kat

as Lorraine

as Self

as Carol

as Odessa Smith

as Debbie Anders

as Bar Owner

as Commander Raffi Musiker

as Maxine

as Raffi Musiker

as Marcy

as Self

as Dr. Val

as Ebony Jackson

as Christine Booth

as Tania

as Gina Santos

as Petra

as D.A. Katrina Reyes

as Linda B.

as Pam Davis

as Detective Boyd

as Shepherd

as Det. Sgt. Gloria Mosley

as Samantha Reyes

as Donna

as Connie Irving

as Amanda Winthrop

as Donna McKinney

as Alex

as Jacklyn Dussault

as Louise Reed

as Helen Purcell

as Diana Calder

as Libby

as CIA Anne Reynolds

as Agent Thompson

as Renee Grover

as Colleen Manus

as Elizabeth Mainway

as Det. Ann Roche

as Liz Kayson

as Tamara

as Rachel Gray

as Laurel

as Dr. Connie Vasquez



as Detective Rose Harding

as Dr. Brooke Mills

as Ms. Fisher

as Agent Diane Reed

as Kitson
as Althea Barnes

as Lola

as Susan

as Monique Jeffries

as Gina
as Lorraine

as Katya

as State Police #2

as B.B. DaCosta / Fire

as Diane Lerner (segment "The Getaway")

as D.A. Renee Williams


as Asia

as Courtney Brown

as A.D.A. Reynolds

as Anita

as Anita

as Angela Roney

as Student on street

as Rachel Goldberg

as Jolene
as Dr. Jocelyn Isaacs

as Mrs. Hollyhock