Harriet Sansom Harris

Personal Info

Birthday

January 8, 1955

(70 years old)

Place of Birth

Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Also Known As

Harriet Harris

Harriet Sansom Harris

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.

Known For

Law & Order

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

American Dad!

American Horror Story

Desperate Housewives

Frasier

The X-Files

Ghost Whisperer

Filmography

2025
Americana
as Tish
Magazine Dreams
as Patricia Waldron
2023
Jules
as Sandy
2022
Director by Night
as Self
Werewolf by Night
as Verussa Bloodstone
2021
Licorice Pizza
as Mary Grady
2020
Baby
as The Woman
Eleanor
as Eleanor Roosevelt
2017
Phantom Thread
as Barbara Rose
2016
Her Last Will
as Dina Cotton
Electric City
as Voice Actor (voice)
2015
Show Boat
as Parthy Ann Hawks
2014
Love Is Strange
as Honey
2011
Rampart
as Stacy Cranston
2010
Still on the Road
as Self
2009
Moonlight Serenade
as Angelica Webster
2005
Monster-in-Law
as Therapist
2004
Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter
as Bebe Glazer
2001
The One
as Nurse Besson
2000
Memento
as Mrs. Jankis
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Maggie Cutler
Nurse Betty
as Ellen
1998
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
as Turtle/Rhesus (voice)
1997
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
as Millie Ogden
Friends 'Til The End
as Mrs. Boxer
1996
Romeo + Juliet
as Susan Santandiago
1994
Quiz Show
as Enright's Secretary
1993
Addams Family Values
as Ellen Buckman
Dottie Gets Spanked
as Sharon's Mother
1992
Fool's Fire
as Lady Clarice