Angie Harmon

Angela Michelle "Angie" Harmon (born August 10, 1972) is an American fashion model andtelevision/film actress. She became a well-known model in the 1990s and developed a career as a television star after roles on Baywatch Nights and Law & Order.

Early life

Harmon was born in Highland Park, Texas, the daughter of Daphne Demar (née Caravageli) and Lawrence Paul "Larry" Harmon, a hospital information-network executive in Dallas. Her mother is of Greek descent and her father is of Irish, Scottish and Cherokee Native Americanancestry. Both of her parents were models in the 1970s. They divorced in 1982, and her father later remarried.

Harmon worked as a child model and in 1988, won a Seventeen modeling contest. She attended Highland Park High School until 1990, where she was a member of the Highland Belles. She won a Spectrum Model Search contest shortly afterward, subsequently pursuing a successful modeling career and becoming well-known in the early 1990s. She worked as a runway model for Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, and Donna Karan and appeared on the covers of ELLE, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire. She is signed with IMG Models in New York City.

Career

Harmon began acting in 1995 after being discovered on a plane by David Hasselhoff.  She then starred in several television series, includingBaywatch Nights, Baywatch and C-16: FBI. She also appeared in the 1998 film, Lawn Dogs, which received only a limited theatrical release. In the late 1990s, Harmon became better known by joining the long-running NBC series Law & Order, playing ADA Abbie Carmichael from 1998-2001. During this time, she also voiced Barbara Gordon in the animated film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, succeeding Stockard Channing in that role.

Harmon left Law & Order to concentrate on her film career, saying that she preferred working in film to television. After appearing in the 2001direct-to-video film Good Advice, she had a supporting role in Agent Cody Banks (2003), playing the CIA handler of a teenage agent (Frankie Muniz).^[6] In 2006, Harmon co-starred with Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Woods in the direct-to-DVD political suspense drama End Game.

In 2006, Harmon starred as the lead in the ABC pilot Secrets of a Small Town, which did not go to series.^{[citation needed]} She also starred in another failed television show on NBC, Inconceivable. The program was canceled after two episodes. The following year, she starred in another ABC pilot, Women's Murder Club. The police drama was picked up, but only ten of the thirteen episodes aired.

Harmon was one of five actresses who posed discreetly nude for the May 2008 issue of Allure magazine, along Gabrielle Union, Zoe McLellan, Jill Scott, and Ana Ortiz.

In 2010 Harmon hosted an Infomercial for "UpLiv", a stress management program and also appeared in an infomercial for Olay "Pro-X" wrinkle cream. 

Harmon co-stars with Sasha Alexander in the TNT crime-drama series Rizzoli & Isles, playing Boston, Massachusetts, police detective Jane Rizzoli. The show premiered July 12, 2010.

Personal life

Harmon is married to former professional football player Jason Sehorn. The two were engaged on October 13, 1998.^[12] Harmon was taping an interview segment on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno when Leno called Sehorn out as a surprise guest. Sehorn immediately walked up to Harmon, knelt down on one knee and proposed.They were married on June 9, 2001, and have three daughters; Finley Faith (born October 14, 2003 in Dallas, Texas), Avery Grace (born June 22, 2005, also in Dallas), and Emery Hope (born December 18, 2008).

Harmon is a Republican. She and her husband delivered a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention, and supported John McCain for president in 2008. She has also said that she would support Sarah Palin were she to run for President in 2012.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Renegade	Debbie Prentice	TV series "Offshore Thunder" (1 episode)
1995–1997	Baywatch Nights	Ryan McBride	TV series
1996	Baywatch	Ryan McBride	TV series "Sail Away" (1 episode)
1997	Lawn Dogs	Pam
1997–1998	C-16: FBI	Amanda Reardon	TV series
1998–2001	Law & Order	A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael	TV series
1999–2000	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael	TV series (6 episodes)
2000–2001	Batman Beyond	Commissioner Barbara Gordon	"King's Ransom" (1 episode)
2000	Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker	Commissioner Barbara Gordon	Voice
2001	Good Advice	Page Hensen
2002	Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story	Susan Wilson
2003	Agent Cody Banks	Ronica Miles
2005	The Deal	Anna
	Inconceivable	Dr. Nora Campbell	Fall
	Fun with Dick and Jane	Veronica Cleeman
2006	End Game	Kate Crawford
	Secrets of a Small Town	Bethany Steele
	Glass House: The Good Mother	Eve Goode
2007	Seraphim Falls	Rose
2007–2008	Women's Murder Club	Inspector Lindsay Boxer	TV series
2008	Living Proof	Lilly Tartikoff
2009	Samantha Who?	Gigi	TV series (1 episode)
2010	Chuck[20]	Sydney	TV series (1 episode)
	Rizzoli & Isles	Jane Rizzoli	Main Role

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