Harriet Sansom Harris

Acting · Born 1955-01-08 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA

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.…

Filmography

• Memento as Mrs. Jankis
• Addams Family Values as Ellen Buckman
• Licorice Pizza as Mary Grady
• Jules as Sandy
• Werewolf by Night as Verussa Bloodstone
• Phantom Thread as Barbara Rose
• Quiz Show as Enright's Secretary
• Magazine Dreams as Patricia Waldron
• The One as Nurse Besson
• Monster-in-Law as Therapist

TV

• Six Feet Under as Catherine Collins
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Eva
• Desperate Housewives as Felicia Tilman
• Ghost Whisperer as Marilyn Mandeville
• Frasier as Bebe Glazer
• The X-Files as Dr. Sally Kendrick / Eve 6
• Millennium as Maureen Murphy
• The Lost Room as Margaret Milne
• The Mysterious Benedict Society as Rowena
• American Horror Story as Madelyn