Mel Harris(I)
- Actress
- Director
- Writer
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 Génération pub (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 La croix de feu (1989), The Burden of Proof (1992) and Le triangle noir (1992), as well as appearances on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015), New York - Unité spéciale (1999), and as Senator Rafferty on À la Maison Blanche (1999). Among her feature film credits are Brian De Palma's L'Esprit de Caïn (1992) , Chien de flic (1989) (opposite Jim Belushi), Suture (1993), Richard au pays des livres magiques (1994), and Mort ou vif (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.
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 La croix de feu (1989), The Burden of Proof (1992) and Le triangle noir (1992), as well as appearances on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015), New York - Unité spéciale (1999), and as Senator Rafferty on À la Maison Blanche (1999). Among her feature film credits are Brian De Palma's L'Esprit de Caïn (1992) , Chien de flic (1989) (opposite Jim Belushi), Suture (1993), Richard au pays des livres magiques (1994), and Mort ou vif (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.
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