Mel Harris

Known for ActingBorn 1956-07-12 (age 69)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. 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 harrisRead more

Movies & web series

My Brother's Wife

Harry's Hong Kong

House

Criminal Minds

Stargate SG-1

The West Wing

E-Ring

If...

Madigan Men

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

With Hostile Intent

Grass Roots

Cold Case

The Outer Limits

M*A*S*H

Imposters

Strong Medicine

Heart of the City

CSI: NY

Dawson's Creek

Ultimate Betrayal

Touched by an Angel

The Mumbo Jumbo

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Wind Dancer

Shut Eye

Cross of Fire

Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story

The Pagemaster

Suture

Something So Right

Welcome to Paradise

thirtysomething

Imagine That

K-9

Raising Cain

Close to Home

Arthur's Whisky

Distant Cousins

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Cane

The Lodger

The Spider and the Fly

Sonic Impact

Out of the Woods

Child of Rage

The Secretary

MAS*H