Angie Harmon
{{Short description|American actress (born 1972)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Angie Harmon
| image = Rizzoli & Isles Season 2 Alley Scene - Angie Harmon (cropped).jpg
| caption = Harmon in 2011
| birth_name = Angela Michelle Harmon
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1972|8|10}}{{cite web |title=Harmon, Angie 1974- |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/harmon-angie-1974-angie-harmon-sehorn-angie-sehorn |website=Encyclopedia.com |publisher=Cengage |access-date=March 29, 2022}}
| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S.
| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|model}}
| years_active = 1987–present
| children = 3
| spouse = {{marriage|Jason Sehorn|June 9, 2001|2016|end=div}}
| partner = Greg Vaughan (2019–2021)
}}
Angela Michelle Harmon (born August 10, 1972) is an American actress and model. She won Seventeen's modeling contest in 1987 at age 15, signed with IMG Models, and appeared on covers for magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Esquire. Her acting breakthrough came with the role of Ryan McBride on Baywatch Nights (1995–1997), and she earned four Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for playing Abbie Carmichael on Law & Order (1998–2001). Harmon also appeared in a number of film roles, which notably include voicing Barbara Gordon in the animated Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) and Ronica Miles in Agent Cody Banks (2003).
Following the roles of Rose in the acclaimed-film Seraphim Falls (2006) and Lindsay Boxer in the short-lived series Women's Murder Club (2007–2008), Harmon earned praise for playing Jane Rizzoli on the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles (2010–2016), and won the Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama Series or Special in 2012 and the People's Choice Award for Favorite Cable TV Actress in 2015. She has starred in a number of Lifetime network's original projects, which include the biographical special Video Voyeur (2002) and the critically acclaimed feature Living Proof (2008). In 2021, she signed an exclusive multi-picture deal with Lifetime.
Early life
Harmon was born in the Dallas suburb of Highland Park, Texas, the daughter of Daphne Demar (née Caravageli) and Lawrence Paul "Larry" Harmon, a hospital information network executive in Dallas, Texas.{{cite web|title=Angie Harmon Biography (1972-)|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/84/Angie-Harmon.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022033655/http://www.filmreference.com/film/84/Angie-Harmon.html|archive-date=October 22, 2015|access-date=August 15, 2015|website=Film Reference|df=mdy-all}} Her father has English, Scottish, Welsh, Dutch, German and Irish ancestry,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be5v3HrCFB4|title=Angie Harmon's Risk-Taking Relative - Who Do You Think You Are?|last=TLC|date=March 27, 2015|access-date=April 30, 2018|via=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430162238/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be5v3HrCFB4|archive-date=April 30, 2018|df=mdy-all}} while her mother is of Greek descent.{{cite web|last=Varikos|first=Joanna|date=October 23, 2014|title=Angie Harmon to Trace Her Roots on 'Who Do You Think You Are?'|url=http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/2014/10/23/angie-harmon-to-trace-her-roots-on-who-do-you-think-you-are/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913030736/http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/2014/10/23/angie-harmon-to-trace-her-roots-on-who-do-you-think-you-are/|archive-date=September 13, 2015|access-date=August 15, 2015|website=Greek Reporter|df=mdy-all}} In an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, Harmon found she had a German ancestor who served in George Washington's army during the American Revolutionary War and the ancestor later acquired land in Mercer County, Kentucky. The land is still owned by a distant branch of her family.
Career
Harmon worked as a child model, and in 1987 won a Seventeen modeling contest.{{cite news|date=October 19, 2011|title=Seventeen's most iconic covers!|work=Seventeen|url=http://www.seventeen.com/entertainment/features/angie-harmon-cover#slide-4|url-status=live|access-date=7 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512065137/http://www.seventeen.com/entertainment/features/angie-harmon-cover#slide-4|archive-date=May 12, 2014|df=mdy-all}} 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 pursued a successful modeling career, and became 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.
Harmon began acting in 1995 after being discovered on a plane by David Hasselhoff.{{cite news|url=https://parade.com/298600/erinhill/angie-harmon-talks-fashion-family-and-david-hasselhoff/|title=Angie Harmon Talks Fashion, Family, and David Hasselhoff |newspaper=Parade: Entertainment, Recipes, Health, Life, Holidays |publisher=Parade|date=2014-05-31|accessdate=2021-08-15}} She then had a leading role in Baywatch Nights and the short-lived C-16: FBI.Terrace, Vincent. Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2007 (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2008), p.331. She also appeared in the 1997 film Lawn Dogs, which received a limited theatrical release.
In the late 1990s, Harmon became better known when she joined the NBC series Law & Order, playing ADA Abbie Carmichael from 1998 to 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.{{cite web|last=Chavel|first=Sean|date=March 18, 2003|title=Interview: Angie Harmon on 'Agent Cody Banks'|url=http://www.cinecon.com/news.php?id=0303181|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030329161735/http://www.cinecon.com/news.php?id=0303181|archive-date=March 29, 2003|access-date=August 15, 2015|website=Cinema Confidential}}
After appearing in the 2001 direct-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).{{cite web |title='Agent Cody Banks' Movie Credits |url=http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aaagentcodybankscast.htm |publisher=MGM via About.com |access-date=August 15, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925052813/http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aaagentcodybankscast.htm |archive-date=September 25, 2015 |df=mdy-all }} In 2006, Harmon co-starred with Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Woods in the direct-to-DVD political suspense drama End Game, and appeared as Rose in the acclaimed Western film Seraphim Falls.
In 2006, Harmon starred in an ABC pilot Secrets of a Small Town,{{cite magazine|author=Schneider|first=Michael|date=February 8, 2006|title=Gray making Enemies|url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/gray-making-enemies-1117937698/|url-status=live|magazine=Variety|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101135815/https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/gray-making-enemies-1117937698/|archive-date=January 1, 2018|df=mdy-all}} which did not go to series.{{cite web|author=Finke|first=Nikki|date=May 12, 2006|title=Latest ABC Picked Up and Passed Over List|url=https://deadline.com/2006/05/urgent-abc-picks-up-4-more-254/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404012054/http://deadline.com/2006/05/urgent-abc-picks-up-4-more-254/|archive-date=April 4, 2016|work=Deadline Hollywood}} She also starred in another failed television show on NBC, Inconceivable, which was canceled after two episodes. The following year, she starred in another ABC pilot, Women's Murder Club, which aired for thirteen episodes. Harmon was one of five actresses who posed discreetly nude for the May 2008 issue of Allure magazine, alongside Gabrielle Union, Zoe McLellan, Jill Scott, and Ana Ortiz.{{cite news|date=April 20, 2008|title=Actresses Go Naked for Magazine|work=Daily News|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/04/20/2008-04-20_actresses_go_naked_for_magazine.html|url-status=dead|access-date=August 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090127014851/http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/04/20/2008-04-20_actresses_go_naked_for_magazine.html|archive-date=January 27, 2009|df=mdy-all}}
File:On the Rizzoli & Isles Set.jpg]] In 2010, Harmon hosted an infomercial for "UpLiv", a stress-management program, and also appeared in an infomercial for Olay "Pro-X" wrinkle cream.{{cite web|date=February 12, 2010|title=Angie Harmon, How Do You Keep Your Figure? Especially When You 'Just Don't Work Out Anymore?!'|url=http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/02/12/angie-harmon-doesnt-workout/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311141802/http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/02/12/angie-harmon-doesnt-workout/|archive-date=March 11, 2012|access-date=March 24, 2012|website=Hollywood Life|df=mdy-all}} From 2010 to 2016, she co-starred with Sasha Alexander in the TNT crime-drama series Rizzoli & Isles, playing Boston police detective Jane Rizzoli. The show premiered July 12, 2010.{{Cite news |last=Moynihan |first=Rob |date=June 11, 2010 |url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/exclusive-balthazar-getty-1019482/ |title=Exclusive: Balthazar Getty Joins Rizzoli & Isles |work=TV Guide |access-date=August 15, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075317/http://www.tvguide.com/news/exclusive-balthazar-getty-1019482/ |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} She directed the series' 100th episode.{{cite web|url=http://www.channelguidemag.com/tv-news/2016/06/01/angie-harmon-reveals-expect-final-season-rizzoli-isles/|title=Angie Harmon Reveals What To Expect in Final Season of Rizzoli & Isles|last=Freeze|first=Kellie|date=June 1, 2016|website=channelguidemag.com|access-date=June 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608123226/http://www.channelguidemag.com/tv-news/2016/06/01/angie-harmon-reveals-expect-final-season-rizzoli-isles/|archive-date=June 8, 2016|url-status=live}} Harmon won Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama Series for Rizzoli & Isles at the 2012 Gracie Allen Awards,{{cite web|title=2012 Gracie Awards|url=http://www.thegracies.org/2012-grace-awards.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004200507/http://thegracies.org/2012-grace-awards.php|archive-date=October 4, 2012|access-date=October 28, 2012|publisher=Alliance for Women in Media Foundation}} and also won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Cable TV Actress in 2015.
Harmon appeared in the music video for Craig Morgan's "This Ole Boy", released in January 2012. In July 2012, during promotions for a new season of Rizzoli and Isles, Harmon revealed on Conan O'Brien's late night series that she was a fan of and very interested in playing a film version of She-Hulk should such a film become available.{{cite web |author=Team Coco |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrDBJPe_ZWA |title=Angie Harmon Wants To Be A Lusty, Big-Busted She-Hulk - CONAN on TBS |publisher=YouTube |date=July 31, 2012 |access-date=August 21, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308234434/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrDBJPe_ZWA |archive-date=March 8, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}
In June 2021, Harmon had signed a multi-picture development deal with Lifetime where she hosted the documentary series Cellmate Secrets and starred as Hazel King in Buried in Barstow.{{cite web|title=Angie Harmon Inks Multi-Picture Development Deal With Lifetime|url=https://deadline.com/2021/06/angie-harmon-inks-multi-picture-development-deal-with-lifetime-1234767385/|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Denise|last=Petski|date=June 2, 2021}}
Personal life
On March 13, 2000, Harmon became engaged to former NFL player Jason Sehorn. She was appearing as a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno when Leno called Sehorn out as a surprise guest. Sehorn immediately walked up to her, knelt down on one knee, and proposed.{{cite news |last=Arbeiter |first=Michael |url=http://www.hollywood.com/news/Jay_Leno_20th_Anniversary_20_Memorable_Tonight_Show_Moments/29036995 |title=Jay Leno's 20th Anniversary: 20 Memorable 'Tonight Show' Moments |work=Hollywood.com |date=May 29, 2012 |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530205045/http://www.hollywood.com/news/Jay_Leno_20th_Anniversary_20_Memorable_Tonight_Show_Moments/29036995 |archive-date=May 30, 2012 |df=mdy-all }} They were married on June 9, 2001.{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Samantha |date=June 25, 2001 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20134749,00.html |title=Dallas Delight - Weddings, Celebrity Weddings, Angie Harmon, Jason Sehorn |work=People |volume=55 |issue=25 |access-date=August 15, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150802174615/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20134749,00.html |archive-date=August 2, 2015 |df=mdy-all }} They have three daughters:{{cite news |first=Cortney |last=Pellettieri |date=July 6, 2010 |url=http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/inspirational-stories/interviews/a18870/angie-harmon-family-life/ |title=Angie Harmon Interview - Actress Angie Harmon Talks About Family Life |work=Good Housekeeping |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116174619/http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/celebrity/angie-harmon-family-life |archive-date=November 16, 2010 |access-date=August 15, 2015 |url-status=live}} Finley;{{cite web|url=https://www.eonline.com/news/46054/angie-harmon-s-new-angel|title=Angie Harmon's New Angel|first=Marcus|last=Errico|date=October 14, 2003|publisher=E! News|quote=Finley Faith Sehorn was born at 10:55 a.m. Tuesday in Dallas. None of the baby's vital statistics were released, but publicist Troy Mankin said Harmon, 31, and child "were doing fine."}}{{cite web |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/angie-harmon/biography.html |title=Angie Harmon |publisher=Yahoo! Movies |access-date=August 21, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103113326/https://movies.yahoo.com/person/angie-harmon/biography.html |archive-date=November 3, 2014 |df=mdy-all }} Avery,{{cite web|url= https://www.foxnews.com/story/harmon-sehorn-welcome-birth-of-daughter|title=Harmon, Sehorn Welcome Birth of Daughter |date=June 27, 2005|agency=Associated Press|via=Fox News|quote=The 32-year-old actress gave birth Wednesday [June 22, 2005] to Avery Grace Sehorn in her hometown of Dallas, publicist Troy Nankin said.}} and Emery.{{cite news|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/angie-harmon-gives-birth-third-daughter-1C9408624|title=Angie Harmon gives birth to third daughter|agency=Associated Press|date=December 19, 2008|via= Today|quote=Emery Hope Sehorn was born Thursday, said Harmon’s publicist, Nicole Perna.}}{{Cite news |last=Ingrassia |first=Lisa |date=December 18, 2008 |url=https://people.com/parents/angie-harmon-gives-birth-to-third-daughter/ |title=Angie Harmon Gives Birth to Third Daughter |work=People |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219124841/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20247910,00.html |archive-date=December 19, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/qa-angie-harmon-on-raising-three-girls-and-coming-out-as-a-republican-in-hollywood/|title = QA: Angie Harmon on Raising Three Girls and 'Coming Out' as a Republican in Hollywood|website = Fox News|date = March 26, 2015}} In November 2014, Harmon and Sehorn announced their separation after 13 years of marriage.
From 2019 until 2021, Harmon had been engaged to actor Greg Vaughan before it was called off.{{cite magazine|url=https://people.com/tv/angie-harmon-greg-vaughan-engaged-christmas-day-proposal-family-photos/|title= Angie Harmon and Greg Vaughan Are Engaged: 'Marry Christmas!|magazine=People|date=Dec 29, 2019}}
Despite her surname, Harmon is not related to the actor Mark Harmon, nor to his family, the Harmon–Nelson family (a well-known California show business family).{{cite web|url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/20220809147724/ncis-former-star-mark-harmon-who-is-in-his-family/|title=Former NCIS star Mark Harmon's famous family: everything we know|website=Hello! Magazine|date=2023-02-16|access-date=2025-04-22}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1997
| Pamela 'Pam' Gregory | |
| 2000
| Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker | Commissioner Barbara Gordon |
| 2000
| Herself | |
| 2001
| Page Henson | |
| 2003
| Ronica Miles | |
| 2005
| Veronica Cleeman | |
| 2006
| End Game | Kate Crawford | |
| 2006
| Glass House: The Good Mother | Eve Goode | Direct-to-video |
| 2006
| Rose | |
| 2009
| Hope and Miracles: the Making of Living Proof | Herself | Video Documentary Short |
| 2016
| TNT Original Series: Frozen Moments | | Short film |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1989
| Herself | |
| 1995
| Renegade | Debbie Prentice | Episode: "Offshore Thunder" |
| 1995–1997
| Ryan McBride | Main cast, 44 episodes |
| 1996
| Baywatch | Ryan McBride | Episode: "Sail Away" |
| 1997–1998
| Amanda Reardon | Main cast, 13 episodes |
| 1998–2001
| Main cast, 72 episodes |
| 1999–2000
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | 6 episodes |
| 2000
| Commissioner Barbara Gordon |
| 2002
| Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story | Susan Wilson | Television film |
| 2005
| Dr. Nora Campbell | Main cast, 10 episodes |
| 2006
| Secrets of a Small Town | Bethany Steele | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2006
| Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List | Herself | Episode: "Red State, Blue State" |
| 2007–2008
| Inspector Lindsay Boxer | Main cast, 13 episodes |
| 2008
| Lilly Tartikoff | Television film |
| 2009
| Gigi | Episode: "The Other Woman" |
| 2010
| Chuck | Sydney Prince | Episode: "Chuck Versus Operation Awesome" |
| 2010–2016
| Jane Rizzoli | 105 episodes |
| 2015
| Herself | Episode: "Angie Harmon" |
| 2017–2018
| Lady Trigel | Voice, 3 episodes |
| 2021
| Cellmate Secrets | Herself | Narrator |
| 2022
| Buried in Barstow | Hazel King | Television film |
| 2023
| Herself | Episode: "Kitchen Crime Scene" |
Awards and nominations
References
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