Personal Info
Birth date
1955-01-08 (70 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Also known as
Harriet Harris
Harriet Sansom Harris
Biography
Born in Texas, Harriet Sansom Harris got involved in acting as a youngster. At seventeen, Harris was accepted at New York's famed Juilliard School. Upon graduation, Harris joined The Acting Company, a repertory group formed by the first alumni of John Houseman's Drama Division of The Juilliard School. She spent three years with the Company before she left to work primarily in regional theater. This led to a successful Broadway and Off-Broadway career. Her life changed after appearing as the sole female in the original cast of "Jeffrey", Paul Rudnick's smash Off-Broadway hit about love in the time of AIDS. "Jeffrey" led to guest shots on series television, including "Frasier" (1993), where she created the memorable role of "Bebe Glazer", Frasier's cutthroat, neurotic, chain-smoking agent. She also won raves from critics for her role of "Vivian Buchanan" on CBS's "The 5 Mrs. Buchanans" (1994). She now calls New York her home, but frequently travels to California for film and television appearances. IMDb Mini Biography By: Dan Flave-Novak
Filmography
Law & Order
7.402
Overview:
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.638
Overview:
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.American Dad!
7
Overview:
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."Frasier
7.682
Overview:
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.Desperate Housewives
7.918
Overview:
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.The X-Files
8.377
Overview:
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.American Horror Story
8.106
Overview:
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.Ghost Whisperer
8.1
Overview:
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.Diagnosis: Murder
7.1
Overview:
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.Supergirl
7.3
Overview:
Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism.The Practice
7.7
Overview:
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”Hacks
7.459
Overview:
Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.Strong Medicine
7.1
Overview:
The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.Six Feet Under
8.1
Overview:
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.God, the Devil and Bob
7.5
Overview:
God strikes a wager with the Devil: if just one person can convince him that the world is worth saving, he'll spare humanity from destruction, if not, God will scrap all of creation and start over. The Devil is allowed to choose the candidate, and true to form, he picks the least likely person to determine the fate of the world--self-centered, slow-witted Detroit autoworker Bob Alman, an icon of mediocrity. Reluctantly, Bob accepts God's challenge, and has to live a decent life with no hints from God and constant temptation from the Devil. Caught between the forces of divinity and deviance, with the weight of the world on his shoulders, there's nothing left to do but laugh.Chicago Hope
7.2
Overview:
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois.Memento
8.178
Overview:
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.Ellen
6.2
Overview:
Ellen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July 22, 1998, consisting of 109 episodes. The title role of Ellen Morgan, played by stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres, was a neurotic bookstore owner in her thirties. The series centered on Ellen's dealing with her quirky friends, her family and the problems of daily life. The series is notable for being the first one in which the main character came out as gay, which DeGeneres' character did in the 1997 episode "Puppy Episode". This event received a great deal of media exposure, ignited controversy, and prompted ABC to place a parental advisory at the beginning of each episode. The series' theme song, "So Called Friend" is by Scottish band Texas. A running gag was that each episode had a distinct opening credits sequence, resulting from Ellen's ongoing search for the perfect opening credits.Addams Family Values
6.971
Overview:
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.Caroline in the City
6.4
Overview:
Caroline in the City is an American situation comedy that ran on the NBC television network. It stars Lea Thompson as cartoonist Caroline Duffy, who lives in Manhattan in New York City. The series premiered on September 21, 1995 in the "Must See TV" Thursday night block after Seinfeld. The show ran for 97 episodes over four seasons, before it was cancelled; its final episode was broadcast on April 26, 1999.Shake It Up
7.6
Overview:
Best pals CeCe and Rocky dream of dancing stardom. And they seem on the verge of realizing that goal when they win places as backup dancers on the local TV show "Shake It Up, Chicago." While they get to show off their moves, they find out they need to keep putting their best feet forward to keep up with the rest of the crew on the show.Murphy Brown
6.4
Overview:
Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.The Agency: Central Intelligence
7.094
Overview:
Covert CIA agent Martian is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind unexpectedly reappears, their romance reignites, pitting his career, his real identity and his mission against his heart while hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.Ally McBeal
6.577
Overview:
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!Romeo + Juliet
6.786
Overview:
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.Licorice Pizza
6.963
Overview:
The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.Millennium
7.663
Overview:
A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.Stars in the House
NYR
Overview:
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.Werewolf by Night
6.972
Overview:
On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader. In a strange and macabre memorial to the leader’s life, the attendees are thrust into a mysterious and deadly competition for a powerful relic—a hunt that will ultimately bring them face to face with a dangerous monster.Family Law
8.2
Overview:
Family attorney and mom, Lynn Holt, has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together, since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, they're all determined to make the most of this unexpected second chance—and make each month's mortgage payment.Acting
TBABorges and Me as Unknown
2025Americana as Tish
2025Magazine Dreams as Patricia Waldron
2025Long Bright River (5 Episodes) as Mrs. Mahon
2024The Agency: Central Intelligence (10 Episodes) as Dr Rachel Blake
2024Clipped (6 Episodes) as 'Justine'
2023Frasier (1 Episode) as Bebe Glazer
2023Jules as Sandy
2022Director by Night as Self
2022Werewolf by Night as Verussa Bloodstone
2021Licorice Pizza as Mary Grady
2021The Mysterious Benedict Society (1 Episode) as Rowena
2021Hacks (1 Episode) as Susan
2020Baby as The Woman
2020Atlantic Crossing (8 Episodes) as Eleanor Roosevelt
2020Eleanor as Eleanor Roosevelt
2020Hollywood (1 Episode) as Eleanor Roosevelt
2020Stars in the House (1, 2 Episode) as Self - Special Guest, Self
2017Phantom Thread as Barbara Rose
2016Her Last Will as Dina Cotton
2016Electric City as Voice Actor (voice)
2015Supergirl (1 Episode) as Sinead
2015Show Boat as Parthy Ann Hawks
2014Love Is Strange as Honey
2014Russian Broadway Shut Down as Unknown
2012Robot and Monster (1 Episode) as Bea Holder (voice)
2011Rampart as Stacy Cranston
2011American Horror Story (1 Episode) as Madelyn
2010Shake It Up (1 Episode) as Dr. Pepper
2010Still on the Road as Self
2009Moonlight Serenade as Angelica Webster
2006The Lost Room (2 Episodes) as Margaret Milne
2006Help Me Help You (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005Ghost Whisperer (1 Episode) as Marilyn Mandeville
2005Monster-in-Law as Therapist
2005American Dad! (1 Episode) as Mrs. Reagan (voice)
2004Desperate Housewives (28 Episodes) as Felicia Tilman
2004Quintuplets (1 Episode) as Unknown
2004Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter as Bebe Glazer
2003It's All Relative (22 Episodes) as Audrey O'Neil
2002Bram & Alice (1 Episode) as Unknown
2001The One as Nurse Besson
2001The Beast (6 Episodes) as Unknown
2001Six Feet Under (2 Episodes) as Catherine Collins
2000Memento as Mrs. Jankis
2000The Man Who Came to Dinner as Maggie Cutler
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1 Episode) as Eva
2000Nurse Betty as Ellen
2000Strong Medicine (1 Episode) as Governer Barbara Curtis
2000God, the Devil and Bob (1 Episode) as Martha Stewart (voice)
1999Stark Raving Mad (4 Episodes) as Audrey Radford
1999Family Law (1 Episode) as Lois Nelson
1998The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story as Turtle/Rhesus (voice)
1997Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest as Millie Ogden
1997Union Square (14 Episodes) as Suzanne Barkley
1997Ally McBeal (1 Episode) as Cheryl Bonner
1997The Practice (1 Episode) as Ellen Blake
1997Friends 'Til The End as Mrs. Boxer
1996Romeo + Juliet as Susan Santandiago
1996Millennium (1 Episode) as Maureen Murphy
1995Space: Above and Beyond (2 Episodes) as Diane Hayden
1995Caroline in the City (1 Episode) as Miss McGowan
1994The 5 Mrs. Buchanans (18 Episodes) as Vivian Buchanan
1994Chicago Hope (1 Episode) as Unknown
1994Quiz Show as Enright's Secretary
1994Ellen (1 Episode) as Claire
1994Monty (1 Episode) as Mrs. King
1993Addams Family Values as Ellen Buckman
1993Diagnosis: Murder (1 Episode) as Marisa Parkhurst
1993Dottie Gets Spanked as Sharon's Mother
1993Frasier (10 Episodes) as Bebe Glazer
1993The X-Files (1 Episode) as Dr. Sally Kendrick / Eve 6
1993Good Advice (1 Episode) as Marilyn
1992Fool's Fire as Lady Clarice
1991Golden Years as Francie Wil
1991Golden Years (2 Episodes) as Francie Wil
1991Sisters (1 Episode) as Unknown
1990Law & Order (1, 1 Episode) as Sheila, Ms. Kenny
1989Doctor Doctor (1 Episode) as Unknown
1988Murphy Brown (1 Episode) as Unknown