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Harmon was born in Highland Park, Texas to Lawrence Paul Harmon (who worked in a Dallas hospital information network) and Daphne Demar Caravageli, both of whom were well-known models in the 1970s. 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 magazine modeling contest. She graduated from Highland Park High School in 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 designers Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani and Donna Karan and appeared on the covers of ELLE, Cosmopolitan and Esquire.

[edit] Career
Harmon began acting in 1995, starring 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 after playing Abbie Carmichael on the series Law & Order, a role she played from 1998 to 2001. During this time, she also voiced Commissioner 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.[1] 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.[2] Although Harmon was originally scheduled to appear in the sequel, the producers chose to take a more comedic approach, and replaced Harmon with comic actor Anthony Anderson as Banks's handler.[3] 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. In 2007, she starred in another ABC pilot, Women's Murder Club, which was picked up by ABC.


[edit] Personal life
Harmon is 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. Sehorn asked her to marry him, to Angie's complete and visible surprise. (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).

Harmon is a Republican with a socially conservative political philosophy. She and her husband delivered a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

Comedienne and singer Sandra Bernhard has a song on her album Hero Worship called "Angie Harmon'; it is preceded by a story in which Bernhard reads an interview with Harmon where she lies about her age. The song is more about the youth obsession in Hollywood than about Harmon herself, concluding with the line: "Angie Harmon...look at me, I'm only 22!"

American model and actress Angie Harmon came to prominent with her starring role of tough private detective Ryan McBride in the syndicated television show Baywatch Nights (1995). She was launched as one of the most famous television star for portraying sexy assistant district attorney Abbie Carmichael in the award winning series "Law & Order" (1998-2001), in which she nabbed SAG nods for four consecutive years.

Highland Park, Texas native Harmon was seen in the recent and upcoming films the comedy Good Advice (2001), the hit flick Agent Cody Banks (2003), the drama film The Deal (2005), the comedy Fun with Dick and Jane (2005, with Jim Carrey) and the action thriller End Game (2005). She also works for television film Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story (2002) and drama series "Inconceivable" (2005).

"I would like for all children to be able to connect with nature at an early age." Angie Harmon

Off screen, Harmon's measurements are 34-24-35. The big fan of Dallas Cowboy Harmon is a nature lover. She has always wanted to establish a children's ranch in West Texas to provide neglected city youth a true outdoor experience. As for her personal life, Angie Harmon is the wife of New York Giants All-Pro defensive back Jason Sehorn. With husband Sehorn, she has two beautiful daughters, Finley Faith Sehorn and Avery Grace Sehorn.


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Childhood and Family:

Of Greek and German descent, Angela Michelle Harmon was born on August 10, 1972, in Dallas, Texas, USA. Her mother is Daphne Harmon (born in 1950), a model, and her father is Larry Harmon (born in 1943), an executive and a former model. Angie's parents divorced when she was a toddler.

Angie followed in her parents' food steps early in her life. Baby Angie got her first modeling exposure when she appeared in "How to Give Your Baby a Bath." By the age 15, she won the national cover contest for Seventeen Magazine. After national modeling gigs in New York, Angie went home to Dallas to complete high school at Highland Park High School, and graduated in 1990. Shortly after graduation, she won Spectrum Model Search. After a lucrative modeling career, she would later added acting to her endeavors.

Angie met Jason Sehorn (born on April 15, 1971), the New York Giants All-Pro defensive back after she attended a Giants football game. On March 13, 2000, while on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, her boyfriend embarked onstage and proposed her during the program. The couple decided to tie the knot on June 9, 2001 and welcomed their first child, daughter Finley Faith Sehorn, on October 14, 2003. Angie's second daughter Avery Grace Sehorn was born on June 22, 2005. The family now lives in Hollywood Hills with their dog Dakota, three cats, Madeleine, Mogolie and Spooky, and a goldfish named Hercules.


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Career:

Angie Harmon began a modeling career since she was a baby. After graduation from high school, she moved to New York to focus on modeling though she always dreamed of becoming an actress. She soon appeared on the covers of many magazines including Elle, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, GQ and Esquire. She also worked as a runaway model for such high-profile designers as Calvin Klein, Giorgi Armani, Versace, Valentino, Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Isaac Mizrahi.

After a few years of modeling, and taking some acting lessons, Harmon decided to give acting a try by relocating to Los Angeles.
Her chance to be an actress was opened up when Baywatch star David Hasselhoff caught eye of the brown-eyed brunette beauty while on an aircraft.

"It's a real life Cinderella story. Acting had been my dream since I was a kid, but this was my first audition for a television series. I didn't want to blow it." Angie Harmon on Baywatch Nights

In 1995, Harmon finally landed the lead role of private detective Ryan McBride in "Baywatch Nights" (1995), the spin off of the most popular syndicated television series of all time, Baywatch. Portraying a tough-as-nails character, Harmon rose to fame with the huge success of the show. The same year, she also guest starred in an episode of "Renegade."

Her contract with Baywatch Nights ended in 1997. Harmon next moved to ABC's short-lived drama "C-16: FBI" (1997), portraying rookie FBI agent Amanda Reardon, opposite Eric Roberts. Unlike her first project, C-16: FBI failed to top the rating charts. In 1997, Harmon also received her first wide screen role as Pam in the independent film Lawn Dogs (1997, along side Sam Rockwell). With John Duigan directed at the helm, the film gained much exposure because it was screened at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.

"Abbie has a much higher IQ than I do... I didn't go to law school. So when Abbie has to put all her big words together, it's like, 'Oh, good Lord.'" Angie Harmon on her role in Law & Order.

Harmon's big breakthrough arrived in 1998 when she joined cast of NBC's long-running crime drama "Law & Order," starring as sexy assistant district attorney Abbie Carmichael. During her stint from 1998-2001, her bright acting received Screen Actors Guild Award nominations in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. Harmon also appeared in several episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

In the new millennium, Harmon provided her voice to the character of Commissioner Barbara Gordon in the made-for-video Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000). She then costarred with Charlie Sheen in Steve Rash's comedy film Good Advice (2001, played Page Hensen), starred as Susan Wilson in the television movie Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story (2002), played Ronica Miles in the hit Agent Cody Banks (2003, starring Frankie Muniz and Hilary Duff) and played a role in Bob the Butler (2004, opposite Brooke Shields and Tom Green).

Thirty-three-year-old Harmon recently portrayed Anna, opposite Christian Slater, Selma Blair and Robert Loggia, in drama film The Deal (2005) and reappeared on the small screen with regular role of Dr. Nora Campbell in the drama series "Inconceivable" (2005-). She will soon played Veronica in the comedy Fun with Dick and Jane (2005, starring Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni) and star as Kate Crawford in the action thriller End Game (2005).

To give the high-concept pitch on Women's Murder Club, it's CSI meets Sex and the City. A female foursome of investigators solves crimes while talking about boyfriends and what a murder victim's bikini waxing says about her love life.

That's kind of a catty way of complimenting a show that packs a lot of promise in its debut, but there's reason to be somewhat equivocal when praising ABC's new drama with Law & Order veteran and Dallas native Angie Harmon leading the cast.

The series' opener establishes a setup that will be familiar to viewers who have read the books by James Patterson on which the show is based. Ms. Harmon is Lindsay Boxer, the sharp homicide detective whose gal pals just happen to include Claire (Laura Harris), an assistant district attorney, and Jill (Paula Newsome), the chief medical examiner. So the three spend a lot of time talking over dead bodies, which brings us to one of the signature traits of the show: the three women jumping from shop talk to personal gab without missing a beat. When, for example, Lindsay is bringing everyone up to speed about the latest murder victim and mentions that she was talking to her ex, Tom, on the phone, Claire stops and asks, "You were talking to Tom?" First things first, after all.

In these moments, Women's Murder Club is very Sex and the City-ish, with San Francisco standing in for New York City and crime scenes and the morgue taking the place of hip clubs and restaurants. But there are alternating scenes focusing on blood-spray patterns or showing Jill noisily straightening a corpse's broken arm, to provide some heavy police-procedural counterweight to all the personal-dishing froth.

The promise of the show is rooted, first and foremost, in the presence and performance of Ms. Harmon. Her Lindsay is no carbon-copy reprisal of her tough-talking, hang-'em-high Texan prosecutor on L&O. Here she shows a range only hinted at previously. She is hard, soft, funny, fierce, tough and fragile, often in the span of a single exchange. Yes, she is astonishingly beautiful � get over it. She's also a good actress who displays great timing and a knack for subtle gestures. The other members of her club are solid, although Ms. Harris' Claire looks more like an extra from Blade Runner than an assistant district attorney. Aubrey Dollar as the cub crime reporter who turns the trio into a quartet comes off at times more like an adolescent baby sitter than a partner in crime solving.

The reasons for equivocation range from writing that too often relies on formulaic shorthand or shoehorned contrivance to production values that look cheap or half-sketched. ABC's decision to put the show on Friday nights can be viewed as either a no-confidence vote or, conversely, a sign of just how committed the network is to growing the show into a hit. By placing Women's Murder Club on low-expectations Friday night, execs may be hoping to give the show a chance to develop and gain some traction with viewers, thereby positioning it for a triumphant midseason move to, say, Thursday nights following Grey's Anatomy.

If Women's Murder Club can get its groove going, it would be a perfect replacement for dying-on-the-vine Big Shots. The next few weeks will tell us just how big an "if" that really is.Women's Murder Club

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