Mel Harris
Birthday: 1956-07-12 | Place of Birth: Bethlehem, PennsylvaniaMel 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
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as Kathy
as Kathy
as Margaret
as Beth Fleming
as Dr. Harrison
as Faye Baxter
as Sarah Springfield
as Cordella Calloway
as Karen Lowry
as Annie Epson
as Co-Pilot Jennifer Blake
as Dolly Bird
as Sarah McLeish
as Carly Davis
as Laura Hyler
as Claire
as Ellen Bradford
as Laurel O'Connor
as Claire Tyler
as Dr. Renee Descartes
as Jordan Kirkland
as Susan Rodgers
as Allison Wilcox
as Katherine June Sullivan
as Kathy Arnold
as Susan Allen
as Jill Tyler
as Sarah
as Sonia Klonsky
