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Mel Harris
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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)…
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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. - IMDb mini biography by: mel harris
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2024
Arthur's Whisky
Movie Dr. Deborah Wingard
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2023
Queen of Knives
Movie Kathy
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2020
King of Knives
Movie Kathy
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2017
Imposters
TV show Margaret Jonson
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2016
Shut Eye
TV show Nadine Davies
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2015
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
TV show Shawna
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2009
Imagine That
Movie Maggie Johnson (uncredited)
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2009
The Lodger
Movie Margaret
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2007
Cane
TV show Constance Hughes
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2007
Saints & Sinners
TV show
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2005
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
Movie Mel Harris
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2005
Criminal Minds
TV show
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2005
E-Ring
TV show
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2005
Close to Home
TV show Beth Murphy
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2005
Out of the Woods
Movie Beth Fleming
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2005
Purple Heart
Movie Dr. Harrison
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2004
Dynamite
Movie Faye Baxter
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2004
House
TV show Barbara Bardach
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2004
CSI: NY
TV show Julie Rollins
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2004
If...
TV show
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2003
Cold Case
TV show Grace Anderson
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2003
Hangman's Curse
Movie Sarah Springfield
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2002
Another pretty face
Movie
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2001
The Retrievers
Movie Karen Lowry
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2001
Firetrap
Movie Cordella Calloway
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2000
Sonic Impact
Movie Co-Pilot Jennifer Blake
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2000
The Mumbo Jumbo
Movie Dolly Bird
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2000
Madigan Men
TV show
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2000
Strong Medicine
TV show Biddy Hightower
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2000
Out of Time
Movie Annie Epson
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1999
The West Wing
TV show Ricky Rafferty
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Eileen Switzer
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1998
Dawson's Creek
TV show Helen Lindley
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1997
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Movie Sarah McLeish
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1997
Stargate SG-1
TV show Oma Desala
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1996
What Kind of Mother Are You?
Movie Laura Hyler
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1996
Something So Right
TV show Carly Davis
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1996
A Case for Life
Movie LIz Hemmitt
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1995
Sharon's Secret
Movie Laurel O'Connor
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1995
The Secretary
Movie Ellen Bradford
