Angie Harmon, the Latest Legal Eagle to Take Off On NBC's Hit Drama 'Law and Order,' in the April Issue of GLAMOUR Magazine.Entertainment Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 13, 2000 Actress Angie Harmon Angela Michelle Harmon Sehorn (born August 10, 1972) is an American fashion model and television/film actress. She became a well-known model in the 1990s and developed a career as a television star after roles on Baywatch Nights and Law & Order. , who appears on Glamour's April cover, has become one of the most talked about actresses on network television. In her second season as lock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key assistant D.A. Abbie Carmichael Abbie Carmichael is a fictional character on the TV drama Law & Order created by Rene Balcer and portrayed by model/actress Angie Harmon. The character was regularly featured from 1998 to 2001. on NBC's "Law & Order," Harmon works a 90 hour -plus week and struggles to find time for a personal life. "I've just started getting used to this schedule," she told Glamour. "Last year, I was on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of a nervous breakdown nervous breakdown n. A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder, especially when occurring suddenly and marked by depression. nervous breakdown ." Harmon, who beat out 84 other actresses for the role, says that Abbie has ".. a real vendetta vendetta (vĕndĕt`ə) [Ital.,=vengeance], feud between members of two kinship groups to avenge a wrong done to a relative. Although the term originated in Corsica, the custom has also been practiced in other parts of Italy, in other for cleaning up society because she was raped in college...she avenges the battered or raped woman." Her co-star, Sam Waterson, adds that even in real life, "Angie would be a great person to have watch your back in a fight." "Angie's a rare commodity in this business," says Jerry Orbach (who plays detective Lennie Briscoe). "There's almost nobody who looks that good who can act." "Law & Order" helped introduce Harmon to her boyfriend, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Giant Jason Sehorn. "My mother watches the show religiously," Sehorn tells Glamour. "Angie came to a game with a friend. My mom recognized her, we went up to talk to her - and that was it." "When she smiles at you, it's huge," says Sehorn of the lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan. "And you can't complain when you meet a woman who can talk football with you." Watching her boyfriend get clobbered by a 300 pound opponent hell-bent on doing him harm "gets harder the deeper we get involved," Harmon says. "But Jason is like, 'Please keep in mind that I'm the one who does the hitting' (Sehorn plays a cornerback, a defensive position). But I'm like, 'What happens if someone sneaks up on you." Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.031300/bb4 |
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