Personal life

Harris was born in Worthington, Ohio. She graduated from Worthington High School and Otterbein College in 1989, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre.

Career

Stage

Harris performed with the Los Angeles improvisational comedy troupe the Groundlings and taught for a time with the Groundlings school.

Off-Broadway, she performed in Love, Loss, and What I Wore.

Television

She debuted on television in a 1993 episode of SeaQuest DSV. After an appearance on Star Trek: Voyager in 1997, Harris went on to a recurring role in The WB's Sister, Sister. Other television credits include a stint as a correspondent for The Daily Show's 2002-2003 season, as well as guest roles on The Sarah Silverman Program, Reno 911!, The West Wing, The Good Guys, Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Monk, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Desperate Housewives in November 2008. Harris played the supporting role of Kevyn Shecket, Kirstie Alley's personal makeup artist, on the Showtime series Fat Actress in 2005. She also appears in Suits as Sheila, Louis Litt's on-and-off again love interest. She played Cooper in the ABC sitcom Notes from the Underbelly.

Harris hosted Smoking Gun TV in 2004, and has made multiple appearances on such VH1 documentaries as I Love the '80s, I Love the '90s, and Best Week Ever. On ABC's Cougar Town, she played Shanna, a woman that the network describes as being the "nemesis" of Jules. Also on ABC, she made a guest appearance in the Modern Family episode "Caught in the Act" as a Amelia, a restaurateur and mother to a playmate of Lily Pritchett.

In March 2014, Harris began a new role in the very short-lived series Surviving Jack with Chris Meloni. In March 2015, Harris was cast as Linda, Lucifer's therapist in the FOX television series Lucifer.

Feature films

Her film credits include roles in Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, Kicking & Screaming, and Daddy Day Care. In the 2009 comedy The Hangover she plays Melissa, girlfriend to Ed Helms's character Stu. She previously co-starred with Helms on The Daily Show. She plays the mother of the main character in the film Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) and its two sequels.

Advertisements

Harris' TV commercial work includes ads for Dinty Moore, Avis, Expedia, Quaker Oats, T-Mobile, GEICO, and a Super Bowl commercial for the 2010 Census. She is the voice of turtle Karolyn Slowsky in the Comcast Slowskys television commercials.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Treehouse Trolls Forest of Fun and Wonder	Mama	Video
1996	The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson	Fornaio Waitress #2
2000	Best in Show	Winky's Party Guest
2002	Showtime	Teacher
2003	A Mighty Wind	Steinbloom's Assistant
	Daddy Day Care	Co-Worker Elaine
	The Haunted Mansion	Ms. Coleman
2004	Starsky & Hutch	Mrs. Feldman's Friend
	After the Sunset	June
2005	Kicking & Screaming	Ann Hogan
2006	For Your Consideration	Mary Pat Hooligan
2007	Matters of Life and Dating	Carla
	License to Wed	Janine
	Evan Almighty	Ark Reporter
2009	The Hangover	Melissa
	The Soloist	Leslie Bloom
2010	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Susan Heffley
2011	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
	Natural Selection	Linda	Nominated - Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
2012	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days	Susan Heffley
	Wreck-It Ralph	Deanna	Voice
2013	Bad Words	Eric Tai's Mother
2014	Lovesick	Roberta
2014	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb	Madeline Phelps
2015	Barely Lethal	Mrs. Larson	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	SeaQuest DSV	Rose	1 episode
1997	Star Trek: Voyager	Martis	1 episode
1998	Sister, Sister	Simone	5 episodes
1999	Serial Experiments Lain	Female Knight	Voice: English version
2000	The Amanda Show	N/A	1 episode
	Two Guys and a Girl	Pregnant Damsel	1 episode
2001	Grosse Pointe	Reporter	1 episode
	Three Sisters	Sal	1 episode
2002	Judging Amy	Alumni Volunteer #2	1 episode
	Friends	Julie	Episode #8.23: "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby (Part 1)"
2003	Frasier	Erin
2003-2009	Reno 911!	Debbie Dangle-Frost, Claire the Madam	6 episodes
2004	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Joanne	2 episodes
	According to Jim	Mindy	1 episode
	The West Wing	Corrine McKenna	Episode: "The Hubbert Peak"
2005	Fat Actress	Kevyn Shecket	7 episodes
	Monk	Alice Westergren	1 episode
	Committed	Ruby	1 episode
	8 Simple Rules	Margaret Brandenbauerbern	1 episode
2006	Reno 911!	Debbie Dangle	3 episodes
2007	The New Adventures Of Old Christine	Claire	1 episode
	Notes from the Underbelly	Cooper	Main cast
	Matters of Life and Dating	Carla	Movie
2007-2008	The Sarah Silverman Program	School Teacher	2 episodes
2008	Desperate Housewives	Sandra Birch	1 episode
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Megan	1 episode
	Pushing Daisies	Georgeann Heaps	1 episode
	Suburban Shootout	Natalie Davenport	N/A
	Hollywood Residential	Rachael	Voice, 3 episodes
	Frisky Dingo	A.L.E.X.	2 episodes
	Emily's Reasons Why Not	Lila Cox-Weiner	1 episode
2008-2009	Worst Week	Julie	2 episodes
2008-2010	The Life & Times of Tim	Adam's Date	Voice, 3 episodes
2009	Cougar Town	Shanna	1 episode
	True Jackson, VP	Kitty Monreaux	1 episode
	In the Motherhood	Blair	5 episodes
2010	My Boys	Marcia	3 episodes
	Glenn Martin DDS	Melissa the Wedding Planner	Voice, 1 episode
	Childrens Hospital	Mrs. Throman	1 episode
	The Good Guys	Cynthia Savage	1 episode
	Party Down	Marguerite Tayler	1 episode
	Gary Unmarried	Rachael	1 episode
2011	Modern Family	Amelia	Episode: "Caught in the Act"
	Archer	Rona Thorne	1 episode
	$h*! My Dad Says	Soledad Cho	1 episode
2012	New Girl	Tanya Lamontagne	4 episodes
	Happy Endings	Suzanne	Episode "Sabado Free-Gante"
2013	Newsreaders	Wendy Hayflack	1 episode
	The Office	Rachael	1 episode
2012-2016	Suits	Sheila Sazs	7 episodes
2014	Surviving Jack	Joanne Dunlevy	Series regular
	Maron	Herself	1 episode
	Bad Judge	Dana McCoy	1 episode
2015	The Good Wife	Franny Zissis	1 episode
	RuPaul's Drag Race	Herself/Judge	1 episode
2016	Lucifer	Dr. Linda Martin	Main cast

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