Mel Harris
- Birthday
- Jul 12, 1956
- Birthplace
- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Bio: In an era of Mandy Patinkin and Glenn Close, one shouldn't be surprised that one of the loveliest and classiest leading ladies on TV in the 1980s was named Mel Harris. After several years on the fringes of big success, things began to click all at once for Harris in 1987, beginning with a good part in the Rutger Hauer film Wanted Dead or Alive. More importantly,… More Bio: In an era of Mandy Patinkin and Glenn Close, one shouldn't be surprised that one of the loveliest and classiest leading ladies on TV in the 1980s was named Mel Harris. After several years on the fringes of big success, things began to click all at once for Harris in 1987, beginning with a good part in the Rutger Hauer film Wanted Dead or Alive. More importantly, 1987 was the year Harris landed the role of wife/mother/free-lance writer Hope Murdoch on the popular TV series thirtysomething. Harris' subsequent projects have not been as rewarding: there wasn't much she could do with her leading-lady stint in the Jim Belushi opus K-9 (1989), while such melodramas as Raising Caine (1992) and the made-for-TV Women of Spring Break (1995) were beneath not only her talents, but also those of everyone else involved. Hopefully, Mel Harris enjoyed working on the loopy hospital comedy Suture (1993), if for no other reason than her character name was Renee Descartes. In 1996 Harris co-starred with Jere Burns in the TV sitcom Something So Right. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Filmography
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The Lodger (2009)
- Margaret
- 21%
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Arc (2008)
- Actor
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Arc (2007)
- Actor
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Purple Heart (2006)
- Actor
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Out Of The Woods (2005)
- Mrs. Flemming
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Mel Harris Videos
K-9: P.i.
1 minutes 6 seconds
Arc
2 minutes 34 seconds
Out Of The Woods
1 minutes 10 seconds
The Lodger
1 minutes 8 seconds
Suture
2 minutes 3 seconds
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