
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. - IMDb mini biography by: mel harris
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Arthur's Whisky as Dr. Deborah Wingard
- 2023 · Queen of Knives as Kathy
- 2020 · King of Knives as Kathy
- 2017 · Imposters as Margaret Jonson
- 2015 · Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as Shawna
- 2009 · The Lodger as Margaret
- 2007 · Saints & Sinners as
- 2005 · The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie as Mel Harris
- 2005 · Criminal Minds as
- 2005 · Criminal Minds as Congressman Steyer
- 2005 · E-Ring as
- 2005 · Close to Home as Beth Murphy
- 2005 · Out of the Woods as Beth Fleming
- 2005 · Purple Heart as Dr. Harrison
- 2004 · Dynamite as Faye Baxter
- 2004 · House as Barbara Bardach
- 2004 · CSI: NY as Julie Rollins
- 2004 · If... as
- 2003 · Cold Case as Grace Anderson
- 2003 · Hangman's Curse as Sarah Springfield
- 2002 · Another pretty face as
- 2001 · The Retrievers as Karen Lowry
- 2001 · Firetrap as Cordella Calloway
- 2000 · Sonic Impact as Co-Pilot Jennifer Blake
- 2000 · The Mumbo Jumbo as Dolly Bird
- 2000 · Madigan Men as
- 2000 · Strong Medicine as Biddy Hightower
- 2000 · Out of Time as Annie Epson
- 1999 · The West Wing as Ricky Rafferty
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Eileen Switzer
- 1998 · Dawson's Creek as Helen Lindley
- 1997 · Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest as Sarah McLeish
- 1997 · Stargate SG-1 as Oma Desala
- 1996 · What Kind of Mother Are You? as Laura Hyler
- 1996 · Something So Right as Carly Davis
- 1996 · A Case for Life as LIz Hemmitt
- 1995 · Sharon's Secret as Laurel O'Connor
- 1995 · The Secretary as Ellen Bradford
- 1995 · The Outer Limits as Dr. Christina Markham
- 1995 · Welcome to Paradise as Claire
- 1994 · The Pagemaster as Claire Tyler
- 1994 · Broken Lullaby as Jordan Kirkland
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Kelly Rockhill
- 1994 · Ultimate Betrayal as Susan Rodgers
- 1994 · The Spider and the Fly as Dianna Taylor
- 1993 · Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story as Allison Wilcox
- 1993 · Suture as Dr. Renee Descartes
- 1993 · Distant Cousins as Katherine June Sullivan
- 1993 · With Hostile Intent as Kathy Arnold
- 1993 · Wind Dancer as Susan Allen
- 1992 · Child of Rage as Jill Tyler
- 1992 · Raising Cain as Sarah
- 1992 · Grass Roots as Kate Rule
- 1992 · The Burden of Proof as Sonia Klonsky
- 1989 · My Brother's Wife as Eleanor Goldberg-Rusher
- 1989 · Cross of Fire as Madge Oberholtzer
- 1989 · K-9 as Tracy
- 1988 · Cameron's Closet as Dr. Nora Haley
- 1987 · thirtysomething as Hope Steadman
- 1987 · Harry's Hong Kong as Fay Salerno
- 1987 · Wanted: Dead or Alive as Terry
- 1986 · Heart of the City as Anne
- 1972 · M*A*S*H as