Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 12, 1956
Place of Birth
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Credits
66 titles
Mel Harris
Biography
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
Filmography
Arthur's Whisky
Dr. Deborah Wingard
Queen of Knives
Kathy
King of Knives
Kathy
Imposters
Margaret Jonson
Shut Eye
Nadine Davies
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Shawna
Imagine That
Maggie Johnson (uncredited)
The Lodger
Margaret
Cane
Constance Hughes
Saints & Sinners
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
Mel Harris
Criminal Minds
E-Ring
Close to Home
Beth Murphy
Out of the Woods
Beth Fleming
Purple Heart
Dr. Harrison
Dynamite
Faye Baxter
House
Barbara Bardach
CSI: NY
Julie Rollins
If...
Cold Case
Grace Anderson
Hangman's Curse
Sarah Springfield
Another pretty face
The Retrievers
Karen Lowry
Firetrap
Cordella Calloway
Sonic Impact
Co-Pilot Jennifer Blake
The Mumbo Jumbo
Dolly Bird
Madigan Men
Strong Medicine
Biddy Hightower
Out of Time
Annie Epson
The West Wing
Ricky Rafferty
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Eileen Switzer
Dawson's Creek
Helen Lindley
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Sarah McLeish
Stargate SG-1
Oma Desala
What Kind of Mother Are You?
Laura Hyler
Something So Right
Carly Davis
A Case for Life
LIz Hemmitt
Sharon's Secret
Laurel O'Connor
The Secretary
Ellen Bradford
The Outer Limits
Dr. Christina Markham
Welcome to Paradise
Claire
The Pagemaster
Claire Tyler
Broken Lullaby
Jordan Kirkland
Touched by an Angel
Kelly Rockhill
Ultimate Betrayal
Susan Rodgers
The Spider and the Fly
Dianna Taylor
Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story
Allison Wilcox
Suture
Dr. Renee Descartes
Distant Cousins
Katherine June Sullivan