Angie Harmon
Angie
Harmon, born in Dallas, Texas, is best known for her starring role as
Assistant District Attorney Abbie Carmichael on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning
drama
Law & Order.
Harmon has spent most of her life in front of the camera.
Her parents, with modeling careers of their own, launched Harmon’s
career when she was a baby. At the age of 15, she beat
63,000 entrants to win Seventeen Magazine’s Cover Model contest.
Upon graduating high school, Harmon traveled between New York and Los
Angeles and studied acting. She made her feature film debut in the independent
film Lawn Dogs opposite Sam Rockwell for director John Duigan. The film
played at both the Toronto Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival.
Harmon made her network television series debut as the rookie member
of the FBI’s elite crime unit on ABC’s C-16: FBI.
Harmon recently starred in Lifetime’s highly-rated Video Voyeur:
The Susan Wilson Story, and subsequently traveled to Washington, D.C.,
with Susan Wilson to lobby for video voyeur laws.