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Angie Harmon

Angie Harmon
Angie Harmon
Born: Aug 10, 1972 in Highland Park, Texas
Occupation: Actor
Active: 2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Thriller
Career Highlights: Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story, Inconceivable, Good Advice
First Major Screen Credit: Law & Order: Season 09 (1998)
9 Videos for Angie Harmon
Glass House 2: The Good Mother (2006) The Deal (2004) Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)
End Game (2005) Agent Cody Banks (2003) Batman Beyond: Season 02 (1999)
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) Good Advice (2001) Lawn Dogs (1997)
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Biography:

Texan model-turned-actress Angie Harmon's private life (and concomitant rise to fame) bear closer correlation to a fairy tale than to a factual account. Born Angela Michelle Harmon in the Dallas suburb of Highland Park in the late summer of 1972, Harmon never sought out celebrity; it beckoned to her.

An accidental discovery by the esteemed Kim Dawson Modeling Agency and a win of {~Seventeen Magazine}'s cover-girl contest (at age 15) launched Harmon on the path to modeling, but once she reached Manhattan, Harmon discovered a deep-seated love of drama. Harmon then survived a series of not-so-prestigious early roles (including a very brief stint on the exploitationer Baywatch Nights and a turn as a dysfunctional suburbanite in John Duigan's ugly allegory Lawn Dogs), to establish herself as a respected and esteemed actress. Harmon first garnered national attention in the late '90s, as Abbie Carmichael, an assistant district attorney on the hit prime-time drama Law & Order -- a role she maintained for multiple seasons.

Beginning in 2003, the actress segued from television into cinematic roles, with generally promising results. Her highest-profile turns include contributions to the family-oriented spy comedy Agent Cody Banks (2003), the action thriller End Game (2005), and the Jim Carrey/Téa Leoni comedy Fun With Dick and Jane (2005). Harmon made coast-to-coast headlines in March 2000 when she received a marriage proposal from then-boyfriend Jason Sehorn, a running back for the New York Giants, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Sehorn popped the question in front of Elton John and a nationwide TV audience. Harmon immediately accepted on the air, and the two wed a short time later, parenting children in successive years. In her private life, Harmon is also an outspoken born-again Christian and an advocate of conservative political causes.

She and Sehorn co-hosted the Lifetime special Together: Stop Violence Against Women (2003) to spread awareness and prevention of domestic abuse. In fall 2007, Harmon took on a lead role in the ABC detective series Women's Murder Club as Lindsay Boxer, one of four women who band together to solve crimes in the city of San Francisco; the series was an instant success.

~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide.