Harriet Sansom Harris
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Harriet Sansom Harris (born January 8, 1955), is an actress born in Fort Worth, Texas.
Harris started acting as a youngster and attended New York's famed Juilliard School. After graduation from Juilliard's Drama Division, she joined John Houseman's touring repertory company The Acting Company, where she stayed for three years. During this time, she performed in productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Romeo and Juliet, the classic Antigone, and alongside Frances Conroy in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children.
A successful Broadway career soon followed. Harris's breakthrough stage performance came in the original cast of Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey, where she had the largest role of any female cast member. Her work in Jeffrey led to numerous television guest appearances, including a recurring role on the TV series Frasier as Frasier's conniving agent Bebe Glazer.
Harris currently has a role on the hit dramedy Desperate Housewives as Felicia Tilman. Her own series (including The Five Mrs. Buchanans, Union Square, and It's All Relative) were unsuccessful, but her guest roles on hit series, including Murphy Brown, Ally McBeal, Six Feet Under, and Ellen were memorable. Among them were her performance on The X-Files as Dr. Sally Kendrick and her "Eve" clones, from which the band Eve 6 derived its name.
Harris received a Tony Award in 2002 as a Featured Actress in a Musical for playing the evil white slaver Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
As of 2006 she is appearing as Vera Charles in the Kennedy Center's summer production of Mame opposite Christine Baranski in the title role.
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