Mel Harris
Acting
Born 1956-07-12
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
66 credits
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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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Filmography
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Criminal Minds
House
Stargate SG-1
The West Wing
Cold Case
CSI: NY
Dawson's Creek
M*A*S*H
Strong Medicine
Touched by an Angel
The Outer Limits
Close to Home
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
thirtysomething
Imposters
E-Ring
Cane
Shut Eye
Imagine That
K-9
Saints & Sinners
Heart of the City
The Pagemaster
Madigan Men
Raising Cain
Cross of Fire
The Lodger
If...
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Something So Right
The Burden of Proof
Cameron's Closet
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
Harry's Hong Kong
Firetrap
Arthur's Whisky
Dynamite
My Brother's Wife
The Spider and the Fly
The Retrievers
Welcome to Paradise
Hangman's Curse
Suture
A Case for Life
Sonic Impact
Child of Rage
Grass Roots
What Kind of Mother Are You?
The Secretary
Out of Time
With Hostile Intent
King of Knives
Out of the Woods
Purple Heart
Sharon's Secret
Ultimate Betrayal
Distant Cousins
Another pretty face
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