Actor

Mel Harris

July 12, 1956 · 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), 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.

Notable work

8.6
House (2004)
as Barbara Bardach
8
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as Eileen Switzer
8.3
Criminal Minds (2005)
cast and as Congressman Steyer
8.3
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
as Oma Desala
6.2
K-9 (1989)
as Tracy
6.4
The Pagemaster (1994)
as Claire Tyler
7.3
CSI: NY (2004)
as Julie Rollins
7.9
M*A*S*H (1972)
cast
7.3
Dawson's Creek (1998)
as Helen Lindley
6
Imagine That (2009)
as Maggie Johnson (uncredited)
8.3
The West Wing (1999)
as Ricky Rafferty
7.7
Cold Case (2003)
as Grace Anderson

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