Early life

Angie Harmon was born on August 10, 1972, 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.

Harmon worked as a child model and, in 1987, 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 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.

Career

Harmon began acting in 1995 after being discovered on a plane by David Hasselhoff. She then starred in several television series, including Baywatch 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 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. 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). 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. 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. 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, alongside 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.

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

Harmon appears 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 movie version of the She-Hulk from Marvel Comics should such a movie become available.

Harmon won Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama Series for Rizzoli & Isles at the 2012 Gracie Allen Awards.

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. They were married on June 9, 2001. They have three daughters: Finley (born October 2003), Avery (born June 2005), and Emery Sehorn (born December 2008).

In November 2014, Harmon and Sehorn announced their separation after 13 years of marriage.

Harmon is a Republican. She and Sehorn supported President George W. Bush and delivered a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention. She supported John McCain for president in 2008. Harmon is a devout Christian and has stressed the importance of prayer in her daily life.

In Season 6, Episode 3 of Who Do You Think You Are, Harmon found that she had an ancestor who served in George Washington's army during the Revolutionary War, and later acquired land in Mercer County, Kentucky (which land is still owned by a distant branch of the family).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Lawn Dogs	Pam
2000	Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker	Commissioner Barbara Gordon	Voice
2001	Good Advice	Page Hensen
2003	Agent Cody Banks	Ronica Miles
2005	The Deal	Anna
2005	Fun with Dick and Jane	Veronica Cleeman
2006	End Game	Kate Crawford
2006	Glass House: The Good Mother	Eve Goode	Video
2007	Seraphim Falls	Rose

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Renegade	Debbie Prentice	Episode: "Offshore Thunder"
1995-1997	Baywatch Nights	Ryan McBride	44 episodes
1996	Baywatch	Ryan McBride	Episode: "Sail Away"
1997-1998	C-16: FBI	Amanda Reardon	12 episodes
1998-2001	Law & Order	A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael	72 episodes Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
1999-2000	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael	6 episodes
2000-2001	Batman Beyond	Commissioner Barbara Gordon	3 episodes
2002	Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story	Susan Wilson	Movie
2005	Inconceivable	Dr. Nora Campbell	10 episodes
2006	Secrets of a Small Town	Bethany Steele	Episode: "Pilot"
2007-2008	Women's Murder Club	Inspector Lindsay Boxer	13 episodes
2008	Living Proof	Lilly Tartikoff	Movie
2009	Samantha Who?	Gigi	Episode: "The Other Woman"
2010	Chuck	Sydney	Episode: "Chuck Versus Operation Awesome"
2010-2017	Rizzoli & Isles	Jane Rizzoli	Won—Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series People's Choice Award for Favorite Cable Television Actress

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1999	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Law & Order	Nominated
2000	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Nominated
2001	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Nominated
2002	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Nominated
2012	Gracie Awards	Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama Series or Special	Rizzoli & Isles	Won
2014	People's Choice Awards	Favorite Cable TV Actress		Nominated
2015	People's Choice Awards	Favorite Cable TV Actress		Won

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