Mel Harris

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1956-07-12 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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. Sh...

Acting

2001

Firetrap

as Cordella Calloway

1989

K-9

as Tracy

1994

The Pagemaster

as Claire Tyler

2009

The Lodger

as Margaret

2003

Hangman's Curse

as Sarah Springfield

2000

The Mumbo Jumbo

as Dolly Bird

2005

Out of the Woods

as Beth Fleming

2001

The Retrievers

as Karen Lowry

2005

Purple Heart

as Dr. Harrison

1988

Cameron's Closet

as Dr. Nora Haley

1992

Child of Rage

as Jill Tyler

1993

Suture

as Dr. Renee Descartes

2000

Sonic Impact

as Co-Pilot Jennifer Blake

1995

The Secretary

as Ellen Bradford

1994

Broken Lullaby

as Jordan Kirkland

1987

Harry's Hong Kong

as Fay Salerno

1994

The Spider and the Fly

as Dianna Taylor

1993

Distant Cousins

as Katherine June Sullivan

2004

Dynamite

as Faye Baxter

2024

Arthur's Whisky

as Dr. Deborah Wingard

1992

Grass Roots

as Kate Rule

1995

Sharon's Secret

as Laurel O'Connor

1994

Ultimate Betrayal

as Susan Rodgers

2023

1992

Raising Cain

as Sarah

2000

Out of Time

as Annie Epson

1993

Wind Dancer

as Susan Allen

1996

A Case for Life

as LIz Hemmitt

1989

My Brother's Wife

as Eleanor Goldberg-Rusher

1995

2020

1993

With Hostile Intent

as Kathy Arnold

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