Angie Harmon

Jason Sehorn, a former NFL player, proposed Angie Harmon on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ where he was called as a surprise guest. They got engaged on March 13, 2000 and a year later tied the knot on June 9, 2001.

Together they have three daughters – Finely, Avery, and Emery. The couple decided to end their marriage in November 2014, and after 13 years of togetherness got divorced.

Angie Harmon is a Republican and supported the then President George W. Bush. She had also delivered a speech at 2004 Republican National Convention.

Angie Harmon was born on 10 August, 1972 in Dallas, Texas, to Lawrence Paul Harmon and Daphne Demar. Her father was a hospital information network executive in Texas and has German and Irish ancestry, whereas, her mother is of Greek descent.

Angie began modelling since an early age and when she was 15 years old, she beat out 63,000 contestants in a national contest for cover page of ‘Seventeen’ magazine. Until 1990, she attended Highland Park High School and was also a member of the Highland Belles.

She also won the Spectrum Model Search and was seen as a runaway model for celebrated designers, such as Calvin Klein, Versace, Donna Karan, Valentino and many others. Also, she graced the covers of fashion magazines and modelled for Vogue, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Esquire, and Harper’s Bazaar.

In the mid-1990s, Angie Harmon moved to Los Angeles and began her acting career. She was ‘discovered’ by producer David Hasselhoff on a plane in 1995. He offered her the lead role in the detective series spin-off ‘Baywatch Nights’.

She also signed some other shows like ‘Baywatch’ and the short-lived drama ‘C-16’ where she played the role of a FBI agent. Her debut movie released in 1997 which was an independent film ‘Lawn Dogs’ where she worked with Sam Rockwell.

In 1998, she was seen playing the role of Assistant District Attorney, Abbie Carmichael on the award-winning show ‘Law & Order’. She has also featured in few episodes of ‘Law & Order: SVU’. She also went on to give her voice in the animated film ‘Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker’.

During this time, Harmon decided to concentrate on her film career and she left the television series ‘Law & Order’. In 2001, she was seen in direct-to-video film ‘Good Advice’, and also had a supporting role to play in ‘Agent Cody Banks’ in 2003. In 2006, she was seen in direct-to-DVD political suspense drama ‘End Game’.

Returning back to television, she was seen in ABC’s ‘Secrets of a Small Town’s’ pilot episode. There was another show, ‘Inconceivable’ in which Harmon starred but even that was cancelled after two episodes.

Angie Harmon has appeared in number of TV series but the role for which she was appreciated and known was in ‘Law & Order’ where she played the role of Abbie Carmichael for which she was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Her role as Jane Rizzoli in ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ as a police detective was also noticed and appreciated by many. The show lasted for seven seasons and helped her win awards.