Angie Harmon is an American actress and model. She has been in a lot of movies and TV shows over the years. She started out as a professional model, but after becoming famous around the world, she tried her hand at acting. With the TV show “Baywatch Nights” in 1995, she started her acting career for real. She has also done voice acting. She has lent her voice to an animated version of the movie “Batman Beyond: The Return of the Joker,” which is about Batman. At some point in the early 2000s, Harmon decided to only work on films and stop working on TV shows. After a few movies, she went back to acting in TV shows. The actress was one of the few to pose for “Allure” magazine in 2008 with her clothes on very low. Her best-known role has been as Detective Jane Rizzoli on the TNT show “Rizzoli & Isles.” Because of her work as a detective, she was given a lot of praise and even won some awards. Angie Harmon has been nominated for her work over the years, but she has only won a few awards for her good work over the years.
Childhood and Early Life
Angie Harmon was born on August 10, 1972, in Dallas, Texas. She was born to Lawrence Paul Harmon and Daphne Demar, and she was named after his mother. Her father worked for a hospital information network in Texas. He has German and Irish ancestry, while her mother is Greek.
Angie has been modeling since she was a little girl, and when she was 15, she won a national contest to be on the cover of a magazine called “Seventeen.” She beat out 63,000 other people. When she was younger, she went to Highland Park High School in 1990. She was also a member of the Highland Belles.
She also won the Spectrum Model Search and was a favorite model for Calvin Klein, Versace, Donna Karan, Valentino, and many other well-known designers. It didn’t stop there: She also starred on the covers of fashion magazines and walked the runway for Vogue and Cosmopolitan.
Career
Her acting career began in the mid-1990s when she moved to Los Angeles. She was found by David Hasselhoff on a plane in 1995. He asked her to play the lead in the detective show spin-off, “Baywatch Nights.”
This isn’t the only show she has done. She also did a short-lived show called C-16, in which she played an FBI agent. Her first movie came out in 1997, and it was called “Lawn Dogs.” She worked with Sam Rockwell in the movie.
In 1998, she played the role of Assistant District Attorney Abbie Carmichael on the TV show “Law & Order.” The show “Law and Order: SVU” has also used her. Afterward, she also lent her voice to the animated movie “Batman Beyond: The Return of the Joker.”
During this time, Harmon decided to focus on her film career, so she left the TV show “Law & Order.” In 2001, she starred in a direct-to-video movie called “Good Advice.” In 2003, she played a supporting role in the movie “Agent Cody Banks,” which was made in 2003. In 2006, she starred in a direct-to-DVD political thriller called “End Game.”
When she came back to TV, she was in the pilot episode of ABC’s “Secrets of a Small Town.” “Inconceivable” was also a show that Harmon starred in, but it was only on for two episodes.
It was another pilot for the ABC show “Women’s Murder Club” that she starred in in 2007. The police drama was popular at first, but only ten episodes were aired.
For the May 2008 issue of Allure magazine, she was one of five actresses to pose discreetly nude. She was joined by Gabrielle Union, Zoe McLellan, and Jill Scott. Ana Ortiz was also one of the five.
There were infomercials for “UpLiv,” which was a stress management program, and also for Olay’s “Pro-X” wrinkle cream in 2010.
This is what happened in 2010 when she got a part in a crime show called “Rizzoli & Isles.” It was in the show that she starred with Sasha Alexander and played Jane Rizzoli, a Boston police officer. After it was first aired on TV on July 12, 2010, Harmon filmed the 100th episode.
It isn’t just on TV or in movies that she has been in. She has also been in a music video for Craig Morgan called “The Ole Boy.” Her show “Rizzoli and Isles” was in the news at the time. She said on a talk show that she is a fan of Marvel Comics and would love to play She-Hulk.
Major Works
Angie Harmon has been on a lot of TV shows, but her best-known role was in “Law and Order,” where she played Abbie Carmichael. She was nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for this role.
Also, many people liked her as Jane Rizzoli, a police detective, in the show “Rizzoli & Isles.” The show ran for seven seasons, and it helped her win a lot of awards, too.
Awards and accomplishments:
This is what happened in 2012. Angie Harmon won the Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Female Actress in a Dramatic Series for her work on “Rizzoli & Isles.”
For “Rizzoli & Isles,” she won the People’s Choice Award in 2015.
Personal Life & Legacy
Former NFL player Jason Sehorn asked Angie Harmon to marry him on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” He was called as a surprise guest and asked to be there. A year after they got engaged on March 13, 2000, they married on June 9, 2001.
Finely, Avery, and Emery are their three daughters. They live together, and they all go to the same school. When the couple decided to end their marriage in November 2014, they did so after 13 years together.
As a Republican, Angie Harmon is in favor of the then-Presidential candidate George W. Bush, who died in 2009. She also gave a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
She does a lot of good work for charity, like many celebrities in Hollywood. She also backs UNICEF, the Alliance for Children’s Rights, and the Children’s Institute, as well as other groups that help kids.