Mel Harris
Actor
Born July 12, 1956 in 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).
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
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
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
Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story
Allison Wilcox
Suture
Dr. Renee Descartes
Distant Cousins
Katherine June Sullivan
Wind Dancer
Susan Allen
Child of Rage
Jill Tyler
Raising Cain
Sarah
Grass Roots
Kate Rule
The Burden of Proof
Sonia Klonsky
My Brother's Wife
Eleanor Goldberg-Rusher
Cross of Fire
Madge Oberholtzer
K-9
Tracy
Cameron's Closet
Dr. Nora Haley
thirtysomething
Hope Steadman
Harry's Hong Kong
Fay Salerno
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Terry
Heart of the City
Anne
M*A*S*H