Mel Harris
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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Known for
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Eileen Switzer
House
Barbara Bardach
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
Congressman Steyer
Stargate SG-1
Oma Desala
The West Wing
Ricky Rafferty
CSI: NY
Julie Rollins
Cold Case
Grace Anderson
M*A*S*H
Dawson's Creek
Helen Lindley
Strong Medicine
Biddy Hightower
The Outer Limits
Dr. Christina Markham
Touched by an Angel
Kelly Rockhill
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Shawna
thirtysomething
Hope Steadman
Close to Home
Beth Murphy
Firetrap
Cordella Calloway
Imagine That
Maggie Johnson (uncredited)
Dynamite
Faye Baxter
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Terry
Purple Heart
Dr. Harrison
King of Knives
Kathy
Imposters
Margaret Jonson
Heart of the City
Anne
E-Ring
Cane
Constance Hughes
Wind Dancer
Susan Allen
Distant Cousins
Katherine June Sullivan
Arthur's Whisky
Dr. Deborah Wingard
Hangman's Curse
Sarah Springfield
Suture
Dr. Renee Descartes
My Brother's Wife
Eleanor Goldberg-Rusher
The Pagemaster
Claire Tyler
Cameron's Closet
Dr. Nora Haley
Madigan Men
Another pretty face
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
Mel Harris
K-9
Tracy
Raising Cain
Sarah
Something So Right
Carly Davis
Out of Time
Annie Epson
Saints & Sinners
If...
Cross of Fire
Madge Oberholtzer
The Lodger
Margaret
The Burden of Proof
Sonia Klonsky
The Retrievers
Karen Lowry
Harry's Hong Kong
Fay Salerno
Child of Rage
Jill Tyler
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Sarah McLeish
Grass Roots
Kate Rule
Out of the Woods
Beth Fleming
Sonic Impact
Co-Pilot Jennifer Blake
Welcome to Paradise
Claire
The Secretary
Ellen Bradford
The Spider and the Fly
Dianna Taylor
A Case for Life
LIz Hemmitt
What Kind of Mother Are You?
Laura Hyler
Broken Lullaby
Jordan Kirkland
The Mumbo Jumbo
Dolly Bird
Ultimate Betrayal
Susan Rodgers
Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story
Allison Wilcox
Sharon's Secret
Laurel O'Connor
Queen of Knives
Kathy
With Hostile Intent
Kathy Arnold