Carolyn McCormick

Carolyn McCormick

Birth name: Carolyn Inez McCormick
Born: September 19, 1959
Age: 65
Birthplace: Midland, Texas, United States
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Biography

Carolyn Inez McCormick (born September 19, 1959) is an American actress best known for her role as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet in the Law & Order franchise.

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Life and career

McCormick was born in Midland, Texas to a father who owned an oil drilling company. She graduated first in her class from The Kinkaid School, Houston, Texas, in 1977, and with honors from Williams College in 1981 with a B.F.A.. She also holds an M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She has worked in television, movies, theatre, and voice acting. Her "break" into television was on Spenser: For Hire in the 1980s. She had appeared as the holodeck simulation Minuet in "11001001", a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and later as Minuet Riker (Will Riker's wife) in a fantasy-alternate universe during the fourth-season episode "Future Imperfect". The role she would become best known for was on NBC network as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet on Law & Order, appearing in approximately half of the series episodes between 1994 to 2006. In 1997, she played the unhappy wife of a police psychiatrist played by Robert Pastorelli in the short-lived Americanized version of the British series Cracker.

She also performs on stage. She appeared at the Off-Broadway Cherry Hill Theatre in Eve-olution with The Cosby Show star Sabrina Le Beauf in 2004. She has also appeared in Dinner with Friends, Oedipus, Ancestral Voices, The Donahue Sisters, Laureen's Whereabouts and In Perpetuity. She played in the Broadway productions of The Dinner Party in 2001 as Mariette Levieux, Private Lives (standby) in 2002, and in Equus in 2008 as Dora Strang. In 2012 she appeared opposite her husband, Byron Jennings, in the Off-Broadway production of Ten Chimneys. She appears Off-Broadway in Will Eno's new play, The Open House in 2014.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1985 Enemy Mine Morse
1986-1987 Spenser: For Hire Asst. Dist. Atty. Rita Fiore 22 episodes
1988-1990 Star Trek: The Next Generation Minuet Riker 2 episodes
1991-2009 Law & Order Dr. Elizabeth Olivet 87 episodes (1991-1997, 1999, 2002-2010)
1994 A Simple Twist of Fate Elaine McCann
1996 Homicide: Life on the Street Linda Mariner 2 episodes
1997-1999 Cracker Judith Fitzgerald 16 episodes
1999 You Know My Name Zoe
1999-2001 & 2013 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Dr. Elizabeth Olivet 4 episodes
2000 Deus Ex Anna Navarre/Maggie Chow/Other female characters (voice)
2001 Women Docs Narrator
2001-2004 Judging Amy AAG Ellis Bonham 3 episodes
2002 Emmett's Mark Mrs. Carlin
BloodRayne voice
This Is Not a Chair Mrs. Morrison
2005 Loverboy Ruth the Realtor
Law & Order: Trial by Jury Dr. Elizabeth Olivet 1 episode
2006 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Dr. Elizabeth Olivet 1 episode
2008 Nights in Rodanthe Jenny
2009 Whatever Works Jessica
The National Parks: America's Best Idea Various historical figures (voice)
The Hunger Games Audiobook Narrator
Catching Fire Audiobook Narrator
2010 Mockingjay Audiobook Narrator
True Nature Becky Pascal
Downtown Express Marie
One Life to Live Judge Burdett 3 episodes
2011 Body of Proof Gwen Baldwin Episode: "Dead Man Walking"
2012 The Dust Bowl Voice of Caroline Henderson Directed by Ken Burns

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