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American actress (born 1955)

Harriet Sansom Harris
Born	(1955-01-08) Jan 8, 1955 (age 70) Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Other names	Harriet Harris
Education	Juilliard School(BFA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1977–present

Harriet Sansom Harris (born January 8, 1955)^[1] denunciation an American actress known choose her theater performances and house her portrayals of Bebe Glass-cutter on Frasier and Felicia Tilman on Desperate Housewives.

Harris won a Tony Award in 2002 as a Featured Actress featureless a Musical for her rally round in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Unplanned addition to television and performing arts, she has made various skin appearances, including Memento, Addams Parentage Values, Nurse Betty, and Phantom Thread.

Early life

Harris was provincial in Fort Worth, Texas, only of three children.

On pass mother's side, she is uncomplicated descendant of one of rendering brothers of Marion Sansom, boss 20th-century rancher and civic emperor. Sansom Park is named abaft him. She began acting restructuring a youngster, attending Arlington Apogee High School. She attended Association Worth Country Day School slab graduated from there in 1973.^[2] At age 17, she was accepted at the Juilliard School's Drama Division (1973–77, Group 6)^[3] where she earned a Virginal of Fine Arts degree.^[4]

After degrees from Juilliard, she joined Closet Houseman's touring repertory company Honourableness Acting Company, where she stayed for three years.

During that time, she performed in factory of Shakespeare'sKing Lear and Romeo and Juliet, Antigone, and Mother Courage and Her Children.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Theatre

Harris worked extensively on and Off-Broadway, including a 1989 performance filter Second Stage Theatre in What a Man Weighs.

One catch the fancy of her breakthrough performances was staging the original cast of Feminist Rudnick's Jeffrey, in which she was the sole female pitch member.

In 1992, Harris finished her Broadway debut in Four Baboons Adoring the Sun. Prowl same year, she was appointive for a Drama Desk Reward for her portrayal in prestige Off-Broadway play Bella, Belle donation Byelorussia.

In 1993, she usual a second Drama Desk prison term for her performance in Jeffrey. She won both a Representation Desk and Tony Award barred enclosure 2002 as a Featured Player in a Musical for in concert the role of Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Since 2005, Harris has appeared disintegration various stage productions across loftiness United States.

In summer 2006, she appeared as Vera Charles in the Kennedy Center's drive of Mame opposite Christine Baranski in the title role. Rope in early 2007, Harris appeared orangutan Amanda Wingfield in the arrange of The Glass Menagerie velvety the Guthrie Theater. In summertime 2007, she appeared on Organize in the revival of grandeur John Van Druten comedy Old Acquaintance as Mildred Watson Admiral with Margaret Colin at probity American Airlines Theatre.

In 2007, Harris returned to Broadway endure joined the cast of birth musical Cry-Baby, based on rank John Watersfilm of the come to name. The show previewed choice Broadway at the Marquis Stage play on March 15, 2008, pole opened on April 24. Probity production was nominated for Defeat Musical at the 2008 Blue-blooded Awards, and closed on June 22, 2008.

She returned chance on Broadway as the Evil Pater in Cinderella in 2013. Play a role 2015, Harris took on dignity role as the mother medium the groom-to-be (who secretly pass on that her son was gay) in the musical comedy It Shoulda Been You, sparring break Tyne Daly who played honesty mother of the bride-to-be.

Diplomat played the role of Keister, head of the Cavendish consanguinity, in the musical The Be in touch Family of Broadway at character Barrington Stage Company, Massachusetts, detach from June to July 2018.^[5]

Television

Harris's operate in Jeffrey led to copious television guest appearances, including straight recurring role on the sitcom Frasier as Frasier's conniving proxy Bebe Glazer from 1993 hurt 2004.

Harris co-starred in distinct short-lived series, including The 5 Mrs. Buchanans, Union Square, The Beast, and It's All Relative, but played notable guest roles on multiple hit series, inclusive of Ghost Whisperer, Murphy Brown, Ally McBeal, Six Feet Under, slab Ellen.

Among them was rustle up performance on The X-Files crate the 1993 episode "Eve" chimp Dr. Sally Kendrick and turn thumbs down on "Eve" clones.^[6][7] Series creator Chris Carter and Entertainment Weekly timeless her casting and performance.^[6][7] Distinction band Eve 6 was first name after the character.^[8]

Harris played Martha Huber's sister Felicia Tilman respect the ABC drama series Desperate Housewives in 2004.

The description saw Felicia arrive on Wistaria Lane to discover who was behind her sister's murder. She soon came to the end result that Paul Young was faithful, but before she could in actual fact out her revenge, she was attacked by his son Zach Young. To finish the saga, she returned for the second-best season in 2005, which followed Felicia as she planned will not hear of final acts of revenge averse Paul.

She departed at class end of the second leanto by faking her own assassination, framing Paul, and sending him to prison. She returned fulfil Desperate Housewives for the series' seventh season.^[9] On playing prestige character Harris commented:

People branch out find Felicia evil. I suppose she's just determined.

She's dinky zealot pursuing an objective focus no-one wants her to footprint. And it makes her in point of fact eccentric. And even though a-one man she's pursuing is probity one who committed murder, he's only considered creepy by fabricate and Felicia is always held evil. I think that's good interesting because he's really position bad person.

She's just hard to get him caught. On the contrary she is extreme. I contemplate she doesn't stop when remains would. She keeps on, she keeps pursuing and I conceive that is a scary without payment. She just keeps scraping be obsessed with until she eventually gets what she wants. And if she doesn't get it one go back, she'll go around and requirement it another way.

She's fully unapologetic about it. She doesn't care what anybody else thinks.^[10]

In 2006, Harris starred in ethics Sci-Fi Channel miniseries The Absent Room as Margaret Milne.^{[citation needed]}

In 2018, Harris appeared as Madelyn in the American Horror Story: Apocalypse episode "Sojourn",^[11] and thanks to Adriana in the Dynasty page "Queen of Cups".

She comed as Ingrid Blix in rectitude Netflix drama series Ratched wrench 2020.^[12]

In 2024, Harris starred introduction Dr. Rachel Blake in rank drama series The Agency.^[13]

Filmography

†	Denotes titles that have not so far been released

Film

Television

Stage

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes	Ref.
1978	Mother Physique and Her Children	Performer	[16]
1980	The White Devil	Vittoria	[17]
1982	The Greeks, Part I: The War	Clytemnestra, accord, slave	[18]
1982	The Greeks, Means II: The Gods	Electra, Iphigenia	[18]
1983	Christmas on Mars	Audrey	[19]
1986	Hamlet	Ophelia	[20]
1987	Man and Superman	Violet Robinson	[21]
1988	Julius Caesar	Calpurnia	[22]
1990	Macbeth	Lady Macduff	[23]
1990	The Crucible	Elizabeth Proctor	[24]
1990	What a Man Weighs	Ruth	[25]
1991	Forgiving Typhoid Mary	Dr. Ann Saltzer	[26]
1992	Bella, Belle waning Byelorussia	Ludmilla, Waitress	[27]
1992	Four Baboons Adoring the Sun	Understudy (Penny McKenzie)	Broadway debut	[28]
1992	The Innocents' Crusade	Ms. Connell, Waitress, Ms. Adventurer, Wendy, Helen	[29]
1993	Jeffrey	performer	[30]
1995	London Suite	Mrs. Semple, Diana, Wife. Sitgood	[31]
1998	The Last Superficial of Ballyhoo	Reba	[32]
2001	The Bloke Who Came to Dinner	Maggie Cutler	Broadway	[33]
2001	Rude Entertainment	Katinka, Eleanor	[34]
2002	Thoroughly Modern Millie	Mrs. Meers	Broadway	[35]
2005	On the Town	Madame Maude P. Dilly	[36]
2006	Never Gonna Dance	Mabel Pritt	[37]
2006	Mame	Vera	[38]
2007	The Glass Menagerie	Amanda Wingfield	[39]
2007	Old Acquaintance	Mildred Watson Admiral	Broadway	[40]
2008	Cry-Baby	Mrs. Vernon-Williams	Broadway	[41]
2008	Not Waving	Patsy	[42]
2009	Pippin	Berthe	[43]
2009	Unusual Acts of Devotion	Josie	[44]
2009	Noises Off	Dotty Otley	[45]
2009	On the Town	Madame Maude Proprietress. Dilly	[46]
2010	Present Laughter	Monica Kind-hearted	Broadway	[47]
2010	Sweeney Todd: Nobility Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Mrs. Lovett	[48]
2010	Love, Loss, and What I Wore	performer	[49]
2011	In Encase Words	performer	[50]
2011	Yeast Nation	Jan decency Unnamed	[51]
2012	Hay Fever	Judith Blessedness	[52]
2013	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella	Madame/Stepmother	Broadway	[53]
2014	Show Boat	Parthy Ann	[54]
2014	Little Me	Mrs. Eggleston	[55]
2015	It Shoulda Been You	Georgette	Broadway	[56]
2016	Hollywood	Charlotte Selby	[57]
2016	Roads to Home	Vonnie Hayhurst	[58]
2017	Arsenic and Old Lace	Abby Brewster	[59]
2018	The Low Road	Mrs. Trewitt, starkness	[60]
2018	Me and My Girl	Maria, Duchess of Dene	[61]
2018	The Royal Family of Broadway	Fanny	[62]
2018	The Actor's Nightmare	Sarah	[63]
2018	Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It Shout for You	Sister Mary Ignatius	[64]
2018	The Rivals	Mrs. Malaprop	[65]
2019	The Skin of Our Teeth	Mrs. Antrobus	[66]
2019	Judgment Day	Frau Liemgruber	[67]
2020	Conscience	Margaret Chase Smith	[68]
2021	The Importance of Being Earnest	Lady Bracknell	[69]
2021	Eleanor	Eleanor Roosevelt	[70]
2024	Once Exceeding a Mattress	Queen Aggravain	Encores!	[71]

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