Camryn Manheim
{{Short description|American actress (born 1961)}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2020}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}}
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| image = Camryn Manheim TFF 2007 Shankbone.jpg
| caption = Manheim at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival
| birth_name = Debra Frances Manheim{{cite book |last1=Manheim |first1=Camryn |title=Wake Up, I'm Fat! |date=1999 |publisher=Broadway Books |location=New York |page=39 |isbn=9780767903639 |format=Paperback |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JikERK21MOMC}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|3|8}}
| birth_place = West Caldwell, New Jersey, U.S.
| years_active = 1983–present
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| occupation = Actress
| spouse =
| children = Milo Manheim
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Debra Frances "Camryn" Manheim (born March 8, 1961){{cite book |title=International Television & Video Almanac |date=2007 |publisher=University of Michigan |page=308 |isbn=9780900610813 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8EVAQAAMAAJ}} is an American actress who first came to attention with her off-Broadway one-woman show, "Wake Up, I'm Fat", in 1994. She is known for her portrayals of Ellenor Frutt on The Practice (1997–2004), Delia Banks on Ghost Whisperer (2006–2010), "Control" on Person of Interest (2013–2015), Lieutenant Cosgrove on Stumptown (2019–2020), and Gladys Presley in the 2005 miniseries Elvis.
From 2022 to 2024, she played the lead role of Kate Dixon on Law & Order. Manheim's film credits include Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), Happiness (1998), What Planet Are You From? (2000), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Twisted (2004), Dark Water (2005), An Unfinished Life (2005), and Cop Car (2015). She is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, in addition to three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
Early life
Manheim was born in West Caldwell, New Jersey, into a Jewish family,{{cite web |url=http://www.abilitymagazine.com/manheim_interview.html |title=ABILITY Magazine – Camryn Manheim Interview by Chet Cooper |access-date=January 29, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishhartford.org/page.aspx?id=127634 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090201040852/http://www.jewishhartford.org/page.aspx?id=127634 |url-status=dead |title=Hollywood actress and Ethiopian immigrant raise their voices at women… |date=February 1, 2009 |archive-date=February 1, 2009}} the daughter of Sylvia (née Nuchow), a teacher, and Jerome Manheim, a mathematics professor and the Dean of Letters and Science at California State University Long Beach.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/8/Camryn-Manheim.html |title=Camryn Manheim Biography (1961–) |access-date=January 29, 2016}}{{Cite web |title=Carmen Perez |url=https://www.hslb.org/sylvia-manheim/ |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=www.hslb.org|date=April 13, 2021 }} Her family relocated several times in her early childhood due to her father taking new teaching positions, and she spent her early years in Michigan and Peoria, Illinois.Thomas, Bob via Associated Press. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bu1PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nwgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,6649655&dq=camryn-manheim+caldwell "Camryn Mannheim plays 'fairest one of all'"], Ocala Star-Banner, February 27, 2000. Accessed July 2, 2011. "Born in Caldwell, N.J., Manheim spent her early years in New Jersey, Illinois and Michigan as her math-professor father changed universities."
When she was in sixth grade, her family relocated to Southern California, settling in Long Beach, where she attended Woodrow Wilson Classical High School.{{cite web |url=https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/304499/stumptowns-camryn-manheim-talks-acting-activism-and-how-to-raise-a-mensch/ |work=Jewish Journal |title=Stumptown's Camryn Manheim Talks Acting, Activism, and How to Raise a Mensch |date=September 18, 2019 |last=Miller |first=Gerri |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201018173421/https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/304499/stumptowns-camryn-manheim-talks-acting-activism-and-how-to-raise-a-mensch/ |archive-date=October 18, 2020 |access-date=October 18, 2020 |url-status=live }} She became interested in acting after working at a Renaissance faire during high school.Rachel Lee Rubin (November 19, 2012). Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture. NYU Press. pp. 226–. {{ISBN|978-0-8147-6385-8}}. Manheim graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a BFA degree in 1984 and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program with an MFA degree in 1987.{{cite web |title=NYU Graduate Acting Alumni |url=http://gradacting.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ga_alumbios.html |year=2011 |access-date=December 1, 2011 |archive-date=May 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120530061847/http://gradacting.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ga_alumbios.html |url-status=dead }} Her brother, Karl Manheim, is a law professor at Loyola Law School.{{cite web |url=http://www.camrynmanheim.com/ |title=Camryn Manheim : Actress, Activist, Writer, Producer, Rebel |access-date=January 29, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/manheim.html |title=Manheim, Karl – Loyola Law School, Los Angeles |access-date=January 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021192957/http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/manheim.html |archive-date=October 21, 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Career
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Manheim worked for a while as a sign language interpreter at hospitals.{{cite web |url=http://www.abilitymagazine.com/manheim_interview.html |title=ABILITY Magazine – Camryn Manheim Interview by Chet Cooper |website=www.abilitymagazine.com}} Her knowledge of sign language was used on The Practice, in the Law & Order episodes "Benevolence" (1993) and "Castle in the Sky" (2024),{{cite web |url=https://people.com/camryn-manheim-use-asl-law-and-order-introduce-characters-son-exclusive-8642037 |title=Law & Order: Camryn Manheim Uses ASL as She Introduces Her Character's Son for First Time (Exclusive) |website=people.com}} and in her role as a child behavioral psychologist in the movie Mercury Rising.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
Manheim's breakthrough was her one-woman show "Wake Up, I'm Fat", which played off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company in 1994.{{cite web |url=http://www.radiancemagazine.com/issues/1994/camryn.html |title=Wake Up, I'm Fat |website=www.radiancemagazine.com}} She adapted the show into a book of the same name, which was published by Broadway Books in 1999.{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/camryn-manheim-2/wake-up-im-fat-2/ |title="WAKE UP, I'M FAT!" by Camryn Manheim – Kirkus Reviews}}
In 1999, Manheim won an Emmy for her work on The Practice. In 1999, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award.[http://wif.org/past-recipients Lucy Award, past recipients] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724120329/http://www.wif.org/past-recipients |date=July 24, 2011 }} WIF web site
Personal life
Manheim's son Milo, conceived via sperm donation from her close friend Jeffrey Brezovar, was born on March 6, 2001.{{cite web |author=Eric Hegedus |url=https://nypost.com/2017/07/27/camryn-manheims-son-is-a-broadway-baby-in-more-ways-than-one/ |title=Camryn Manheim's son is a Broadway baby in more ways than one |work=New York Post |date=July 27, 2017 |access-date=March 2, 2018}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.sweetyhigh.com/read/milo-manheim-zombies-disney-channel-facts-111317 |title=Find Out All About 'Zombies' Star Milo Manheim |work=Sweety High |access-date=February 28, 2018 |language=en-US}}
Manheim has been involved with the Los Angeles–based charity Bet Tzedek Legal Services – The House of Justice, serving as a co-chair for their annual fundraiser, the Justice Ball.{{Cite web |url=http://www.camrynmanheim.com/payitforwardframe.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929193015/http://www.camrynmanheim.com/payitforwardframe.html |url-status=dead |title=CamrynManheim.com : Home |archive-date=September 29, 2007}}[http://www.metnews.com/articles/bell072302.htm Bet Tzedek Raises $300,000 With Its Sixth Annual Justice Ball] Retrieved January 29, 2016.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! class="unsortable" | Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2" | 1994
| Unknown | |
| data-sort-value="Road to Wellville, The" | The Road to Wellville
| Virginia Cranehill | |
| 1995
| Single woman | |
| rowspan="2" | 1996
| Eraser | Nurse | |
| Rescuing Desire
| Pappa | |
| rowspan="2" | 1997
|David Searching | Gwen | |
| Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
| Toby Walters | |
| rowspan="6" | 1998
|Fool's Gold | Patricia | |
| Happiness
| Kristina | |
| Mercury Rising
| Dr. London | |
| Wide Awake
| Sister Sophia | |
| data-sort-value="Tic Code, The" | The Tic Code
| Mrs. Swensrut | |
| You Are Here
| Registry woman | |
| rowspan="2" | 1999
|East of A | Agatha | |
| Joe the King
| Mrs. Basil | |
| 2000
| Alison | |
| 2003
| Trooper | |
| rowspan="2" | 2004
| data-sort-value="Land Before Time 11: Invasion of the Tinysauruses, The" | The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses | Tria | Voice |
| Twisted
| Lisa | |
| rowspan="4" | 2005
| Teacher | |
| Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
| Lisa Gobar | |
| Snow Wonder
| Bev | |
| data-sort-value="Unfinished Life, An" | An Unfinished Life
| Nina | |
| 2006
| data-sort-value="Land Before Time 12: The Great Day of the Flyers, The" | The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers | Tria | Voice |
| 2007
| Barbara | |
| 2009
| Ms. Wood | |
| 2011
| Boss | |
| 2012
| Jewtopia | Eileen Daniels | |
| 2013
| data-sort-value="Hot Flashes, The" | The Hot Flashes | Roxie Rosales | |
| 2014
| Florie | |
| rowspan="2" | 2015
| Cop Car | Bev | |
| Return to Sender
| Nancy | |
| 2018
| Debora | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! class="unsortable" | Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1991
| Leila | Episode: "Life Choice" |
| 1993
| Martha Rollins | Episode: "Benevolence" |
| rowspan="2" | 1994
| Beatrice Hines | Episode: "Nurture" |
| New York Undercover
| Bettina | Episode: "Blondes Have More Fun" |
| rowspan="3" | 1995
| Rita | Episode: "Notes for My Daughter" |
| Deadly Whispers
|Betty |Television film |
| One Life to Live
| Rabbi Heller | 2 episodes |
| 1996
| Marge Stewart | Episode: "Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope" |
| 1997–2004
| data-sort-value="Practice, The" | The Practice | Ellenor Frutt | Main role |
| 1998
| Ellenor Frutt | Episode: "The Inmates" |
| rowspan="4" | 2000
|Ellen Pine (voice) | Episode: "Dammit Janet" |
| Loretta Clairborne Story
|Janet MacFarland |Television film |
| data-sort-value="Tenth Kingdom, The" | The 10th Kingdom
| 3 episodes |
| Will & Grace
| Sue | Episode: "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed" |
| rowspan="4" | 2001
| Ellenor Frutt | Episode: "Chapter Thirteen" |
| data-sort-value="Girl Thing, A" |A Girl Thing
|Suzanne Nabor |Television film |
| Jennifer
|Suzzane Allen |Television film |
| Kiss My Act
|Samantha Berger |Television film, also co-executive producer |
| 2002
| data-sort-value="Laramie Project, The" | The Laramie Project |Rebecca Hillicker |Television film |
| 2003
| data-sort-value="System, The" | The System | Peggy Barker | 9 episodes |
| rowspan="4" | 2004
|Plumber Hero (voice) | 2 episodes |
| data-sort-value="L Word, The" |The L Word
| Veronica Bloom | 4 episodes |
| Strong Medicine
| June | Episode: "Cinderella in Scrubs" |
| Two and a Half Men
| Daisy Ray | Episode: "A Kosher Slaughterhouse Out in Fontana" |
| rowspan="2" | 2005
| Gladys Presley | 2 episodes |
| How I Met Your Mother
| Ellen Pierce | Episode: "Matchmaker" |
| 2006–2010
| Delia Banks | Main role (seasons 2–5) |
| rowspan="2" | 2007
| Margo | 2 episodes |
| SeeMore's Playhouse
| Herself | Episode: "Dental Visits" |
| 2009
|Elizabeth Blue |Television film |
| 2010
| data-sort-value="Pregnancy Pact, The" | The Pregnancy Pact | Nurse Daly | Television film |
| 2011–2012
| Kimberly Mendelsohn | 5 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2013
| Carla Hines | 2 episodes |
| data-sort-value="Makeover, The" | The Makeover
| Colleen | Television film |
| 2013–2015
| Control | 9 episodes |
| 2014
| Sam Barton | Main role (season 1) |
| 2015
| Dr. Langston | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="3" | 2016
| Alice Williams | Episode: "Life and Limb" |
| Masters of Sex
|Alice | Episode: "In to Me You See" |
| Younger
| Jane Wray | 2 episodes |
| 2017
| Winnie Davis | 3 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2018
| Twila Meadows | Main role |
| Waco
| Balenda Thibodeau | 4 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2019
| Herself |Guest diner and Waterkeeper Alliance contributor; Episode: "Poor Trev" |
| data-sort-value="Magicians, The" | The Magicians
|Sheila | 4 episodes |
| 2019–2020
|Mary Cosgrove | Main role |
| 2019
|Betty Grover | 1 episode |
| 2020
|Artemis | 2 episodes |
| 2021
|Coach McCarthy | Recurring role |
| 2022–2024
|Kate Dixon | Main role (seasons 21–23) |
| 2022
|Kate Dixon |Episode: "Gimme Shelter – Part One" |
| 2022–2023
|Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |Kate Dixon |2 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2022
| Cruel Instruction | Miss Connie | Television film |
| This Is Us
| Debbie | Episode: "Don't Let Me Keep You" |
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|http://www.camrynmanheim.com/}}
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