Angie Harmon Biography

NAME: Angela Michelle Harmon

OCCUPATION: Television Actress

BIRTH DATE: August 10, 1972 (Age: 39)

EDUCATION: Highland Park High School

PLACE OF BIRTH: Highland Park, Texas

Actress. Born August 10, 1972, in Dallas, Texas, Harmon has spent most of her life in front of a camera. Both of her parents are models, and she began modeling when she was a baby. Her first brush with fame came as a newborn, when she appeared in "How to Give Your Baby a Bath." When Harmon was 15 years old, she beat out 63,000 other contestants in a national contest for the cover spot on Seventeen magazine.

After graduation from Highland Park High School in 1990, Harmon won the Spectrum Model Search and soon was gracing the runways for such noted designers as Calvin Klein, Versace, Donna Karan, and Valentino, among others. She went on to model for Vogue, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Esquire, and Harper's Bazaar. During this time, she also began studying acting.

Harmon moved to L.A. in the mid-1990s to concentrate on an acting career. By coincidence, she met producer-actor David Hasselhoff on a transcontinental flight and impressed him enough to be offered the lead in the detective series spin-off "Baywatch Nights". Harmon quickly segued to ABC's short-lived drama "C-16" (1997-98), playing a rookie FBI agent. Between series, the actress found time to squeeze in her first feature role, a small part as spoiled wealthy woman in John Duigan's "Lawn Dogs" (1997). In 1998, she was tapped to essay the role of assistant district attorney Abbie Carmichael on the award-winning NBC series "Law & Order", a role she played until spring 2001. Harmon left the series in part because of her marriage to football star Jason Sehorn. In 2003, Harmon sexed up her character for the big-budget film "Agent Cody Banks," by placing big "shoulder pads" into her bra. Harmon played a sexy agent and the boss to the title character, which was played by Frankie Muniz.

Her highest-profile turns include contributions to the family-oriented spy comedy Agent Cody Banks (2003), the action thriller End Game (2005), and the Jim Carrey/Téa Leoni comedy Fun With Dick and Jane (2005).Harmon made coast-to-coast headlines in March 2000 when she received a marriage proposal from then-boyfriend Jason Sehorn, a running back for the New York Giants, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Sehorn popped the question in front of Elton John and a nationwide TV audience.