Mel Harris

ActorDirector Jul 12 (age 69) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1972–2024 (52 year career)

5.9 avg rating

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 Bethl…

Known For

Film

K-9

Tracy

Film

The Pagemaster

Claire Tyler

Film

Imagine That

Maggie Johnson (uncredited)

Film

Raising Cain

Sarah

Film

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Terry

Film

The Lodger

Margaret

Film

Shut Eye

Nadine Davies

Film

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

Sarah McLeish

Filmography

Acting (65)

Movies (39)

Arthur's Whisky

2024

as Dr. Deborah Wingard

5.5

Queen of Knives

2023

as Kathy

King of Knives

2020

as Kathy

4.3

Imagine That

2009

as Maggie Johnson (uncredited)

The Lodger

as Margaret

Out of the Woods

as Beth Fleming

The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie

as Mel Harris

Purple Heart

as Dr. Harrison

Dynamite

as Faye Baxter

Hangman's Curse

as Sarah Springfield

Another pretty face

The Retrievers

as Karen Lowry

Firetrap

as Cordella Calloway

The Mumbo Jumbo

as Dolly Bird

Out of Time

2000

as Annie Epson

4.9

Sonic Impact

2000

as Co-Pilot Jennifer Blake

5.4

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

as Sarah McLeish

A Case for Life

as LIz Hemmitt

What Kind of Mother Are You?

as Laura Hyler

Sharon's Secret

as Laurel O'Connor

The Secretary

as Ellen Bradford

Welcome to Paradise

as Claire

The Pagemaster

as Claire Tyler

Broken Lullaby

as Jordan Kirkland

Ultimate Betrayal

as Susan Rodgers

The Spider and the Fly

as Dianna Taylor

With Hostile Intent

as Kathy Arnold

Suture

as Dr. Renee Descartes

6.4

Distant Cousins

1993

as Katherine June Sullivan

5.5

Wind Dancer

1993

as Susan Allen

7.0

Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story

as Allison Wilcox

Raising Cain

as Sarah

Child of Rage

as Jill Tyler

Grass Roots

as Kate Rule

K-9

1989

as Tracy

6.2

My Brother's Wife

1989

as Eleanor Goldberg-Rusher

Cameron's Closet

1988

as Dr. Nora Haley

4.7

Wanted: Dead or Alive

1987

as Terry

5.9

Harry's Hong Kong

1987

as Fay Salerno

Television (26)

Imposters

as Margaret Jonson

Shut Eye

as Nadine Davies

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

as Shawna

Saints & Sinners

Cane

as Constance Hughes

Criminal Minds

as Congressman Steyer

Close to Home

as Beth Murphy

E-Ring

House

as Barbara Bardach

CSI: NY

as Julie Rollins

If...

Cold Case

as Grace Anderson

Strong Medicine

as Biddy Hightower

Madigan Men

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Eileen Switzer

The West Wing

as Ricky Rafferty

Dawson's Creek

as Helen Lindley

Stargate SG-1

as Oma Desala

Something So Right

as Carly Davis

The Outer Limits

as Dr. Christina Markham

Touched by an Angel

as Kelly Rockhill

The Burden of Proof

as Sonia Klonsky

Cross of Fire

as Madge Oberholtzer

thirtysomething

as Hope Steadman

Heart of the City

as Anne

M*A*S*H

Crew (1)

Television (1)

thirtysomething

1987

Director

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