Early life

Michelle Hurd is the daughter of actor Hugh L. Hurd. Her sister is actress and dancer, Adrienne Hurd. She graduated from Saint Ann's School in 1984 and Boston University in 1988, and studied with the Alvin Ailey School. After her graduation from college, she studied at London's National Theatre.

Career

Hurd's Broadway credits include the 1996 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth play Getting Away with Murder. Other theater credits include Othello, A.M.L., Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Looking for the Pony at Manhattan Theater Source with her sister Adrienne Hurd. She met her husband, Garret Dillahunt, in 900 Oneonta at the Circle Repertory Company. She has won several awards, including the Robbie Award and the California Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for the premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour.

She has also appeared in several movies, including Random Hearts, Personals and as the comic book superhero B.B. DaCosta/Fire in the failed television pilot Justice League of America (1997). After working in television roles such as The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover and The Practice, she appeared in a 1997 episode of Law & Order. Her performance as a corrupt FBI informant caught the attention of L&O producer Dick Wolf, who two years later cast her in the spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Detective Monique Jeffries. She co-starred with Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay for the first season before leaving the series in 2000, but she did appear in the first, seventh and sixteenth episodes of season two, her final appearance being in March 2001. In 2001, she appeared in the Showtime original series Leap Years, where her character was the on-and-off love interest of a bisexual character played by her real-life husband.

Television roles include parts in Charmed, The O.C., According to Jim, Shark, Bones, and Gossip Girl. From 2006 to 2007, she had a recurring role on ER as television news producer Courtney Brown, who became close to Dr. Kerry Weaver.

She played Diana, the leading role, in the Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company's February 10 - March 29, 2009 production of Lope de Vega's Dog in the Manger.

She won a Robbie Award for Best Actress for her work in the world premiere of The Violet Hour at South Coast Repertory. She played in Hamlet at the North Shore Theater.

In 2010, Hurd began a starring role on the A&E Network drama The Glades, playing Colleen Manus.

In 2015, Hurd recurred on Lifetime's series Devious Maids as the villainous Jacklyn Dussault.

Personal life

Hurd is married to actor Garret Dillahunt.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Rude Awakening	Student on street
1994	Vanishing Son II	Anita	Television film
1997	Justice League of America	B.B. DaCosta/Fire	Television film
1998	Wilbur Falls	State police #2
1999	Personals	Lorraine
1999	Random Hearts	Susan
2000	Double Parked	Lola
2006	Play It by Ear	Mary Ann
2009	Too Late to Say Goodbye	Det. Ann Roche	Television film
2012	Girl Most Likely	Libby
2012	Naughty or Nice	Helen Purcell	Television film
2015	Beautiful & Twisted	Det. Sgt. Gloria Mosley	Television film
2015	I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine	Detective Boyle
2015	It Had to Be You	Pam Davis	Television film
2016	Within the Dark	Christine Booth
2016	We Don't Belong Here	Tania
2016	Search Engine		Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991-97	Another World	Dana Kramer	Role held: May 28, 1991 - September 2, 1994; November 10, 1995 - June 9, 1997
1994-95	New York Undercover	A.D.A. Reynolds	5 episodes
1995	Cosby Mysteries, TheThe Cosby Mysteries	Jogger	Episode: "Comic Book Murder"
1995	New York News	Asia	Episode: "Good-Bye Gator"
1997	Law & Order	Angela Roney	Episode: "Entrapment"
1997	Practice, TheThe Practice	D.A. Renee Williams	2 episodes
1997-98	Malcolm & Eddie	Simone Lewis	8 episodes
1997	Players	Laura Jenkins	Episode: "Con Amore"
1998	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	Diane Lerner	Episode: "The Getaway"
1999	Action	Gina	Episode: "Pilot"
1999-2001	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Detective Monique Jeffries	Main cast (seasons 1-2); 25 episodes
2001	Fugitive, TheThe Fugitive	Nettie Beaumont	Episode: "Lagniappe"
2001-02	Leap Years	Athena Barnes	Main cast; 20 episodes
2003	Skin	Detective Kimberly Banks	3 episodes
2004	According to Jim	Kitson	3 episodes
2004	Kevin Hill	Dr. Brooke Mills	Episode: "Homework"
2004	O.C., TheThe O.C.	Ms. Fisher	Episode: "The Way We Were"
2005	Charmed	Katya	Episode: "Little Box of Horrors"
2006	Bones	Detective Rose Harding	Episode: "The Man in the Morgue"
2006	Smith	Agent Lowry	Episode: "Pilot"
2006	Kidnapped	Katherine	Episode: "Burn, Baby, Burn"
2006-07	ER	Courtney Brown	6 episodes
2007	Shark	Dr. Connie Vasquez	Episode: "Strange Bedfellows"
2007-08	Gossip Girl	Laurel	6 episodes
2009	CSI: Miami	Agent Diane Reed	Episode: "Out of Time"
2009	Good Wife, TheThe Good Wife	Tamara	Episode: "Unprepared"
2010	FlashForward	Liz Kayson	Episode: "Course Correction"
2010-13	Glades, TheThe Glades	Colleen Manus	Main cast; 43 episodes
2011-13	90210	Rachel Gray	6 episodes
2012	Blue Bloods	CIA Anne Reynolds	Episode: "Risk and Reward"
2013	Emily Owens, M.D.	Diana Calder	Episode: "Emily and... the Love of Larping"
2013	Golden Boy	Louise Reed	Episode: "Longshot"
2013	Raising Hope	Agent Thompson	Episode: "Murder, She Hoped"
2014	Pretty Little Liars	Elizabeth Mainway	Episode: "Who's in the Box?"
2014-15	Hawaii Five-0	Renee Grover	3 episodes
2014	Witches of East End	Alex	2 episodes
2015	Mysteries of Laura, TheThe Mysteries of Laura	Donna McKinney	Episode: "The Mystery of the Popped Pugilist"
2015	Bosch	Connie Irving	Episode: "Chapter Eight: High Low"
2015	How to Get Away with Murder	Amanda Winthrop	Episode: "Mama's Here Now"
2015	Devious Maids	Jacklyn Dussault	4 episodes
2015	Jessica Jones	D.A. Samantha Reyes	Episode: "AKA Smile"
2016	Daredevil	D.A. Samantha Reyes	6 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Terminator 3: The Redemption	Various	Voice

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Getting Away with Murder	Charmaine	Broadhurst Theatre March 17, 1996 - March 31, 1996

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