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Angela
Michelle Harmon Sehorn (born August 10, 1972) is an American fashion model and
television/film actress. She became a well-known model in the 1990s and
developed a career as a television star after roles on Baywatch Nights and Law &
Order. She currently stars on ABC's Tuesday evening drama Women's Murder Club.
Harmon was
born in Highland Park, Texas, to Lawrence Paul Harmon (who worked in a Dallas
hospital information network) and Daphne Demar Caravageli. Her mother is of
Greek descent and her father is of German and Native American ancestry. Her
parents divorced in 1982 and her father later re-married.
Harmon
worked as a child model and in 1988, won a Seventeen modeling contest. She
attended Highland Park High School until 1990 and won a Spectrum Model Search
contest shortly afterward, subsequently pursuing a successful modeling career
and becoming 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 to IMG Models in New York City.
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 early 2000s, Harmon became better known as
playing Abbie Carmichael on the series Law & Order, a role she played from
1998 to 2001. During this time, she also voiced Barbara Gordon in the animated
film, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, replacing Stockard Channing, as well
as appearing on Law & Order.
Harmon left
Law & Order to concentrate on her film career, saying that she preferred
working in film than television. After appearing in the 2001 direct-to-video
film Good Advice, she had a major role in Agent Cody Banks, playing the CIA
handler of a teenage agent (Frankie Muniz). The film opened in March 2003 and
became a minor hit, grossing $47 million. Although Harmon was originally
scheduled to appear in the sequel, the producers chose to take a more comedic
approach, and replaced Harmon with Anthony Anderson. 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. Despite
testing highly with focus groups, the pilot was not picked up by ABC due to its
high budget. She also starred in another failed television show on NBC,
Inconceivable. The program was canceled after two episodes.
In 2007, she
starred in another ABC pilot, Women's Murder Club, a police drama which was
picked up by ABC.
Harmon married
to former professional football player Jason Sehorn. The two were engaged on
March 13, 2000. Harmon was taping an interview segment on the Tonight Show with
Jay Leno when Leno called Sehorn out as a surprise guest. Sehorn immediately
walked up to where Angie was sitting, and knelt down on one knee in front of
her chair and proposed. (She thought that he was in New York at the time.) They
were married on June 9, 2001 and have two daughters: Finley Faith (born October
14, 2003 in Dallas, Texas) and Avery Grace (born June 22, 2005 in Dallas,
Texas). On August 20, 2008, Harmon and Sehorn announced that they are expecting
their third child.
She is
left-handed.
Harmon is a Republican. She and her husband
delivered a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
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