'''Angela "Angie" Michelle Harmon''' (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''. Her best-known film role was in 2003's ''
Agent Cody Banks''.
Biography
Early life
Harmon was born in Highland Park, Texas to Larry Paul Harmon (who worked in a Dallas hospital information network) and Daphne Demar Caravageli, both of whom were well-known models in the 1970s. Her mother is of Greek descent and her father is of Cherokee Native American ancestry.
Her parents divorced in 1982 and her father later re-married.
Harmon worked as a child model and in 1988, won a ''Seventeen'' magazine modeling contest. She graduated from Highland Park High School in 1990 and won a Spectrum Model Search contest shortly after her graduation, subsequently pursuing a successful modeling career and becoming well known in the early 1990s. She worked as a runway model for designers Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani and Donna Karan and appeared on the covers of ''ELLE'', ''Cosmopolitan'' and ''
Esquire''.
Career
Harmon began acting in 1995, starring in several television series, including ''
Baywatch Nights'', ''Baywatch'' and ''C-16: FBI''; she also appeared in the 1998 film, ''
Lawn Dogs'', which received only a limited theatrical release. In the early 2000s, Harmon became better known after playing district attorney Abbie Carmichael on the series ''
Law & Order'', a role she played from 1998 to 2001. During this time, she also voiced Commissioner Barbara Gordon on the animated series, ''
Batman Beyond'' and appeared on ''
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.
Harmon left ''
Law & Order'' to concentrate on her film career, saying that she preferred working in film than television.
After appearing in the 2001 direct-to-video film, ''
Good Advice'', she had a major role in ''
Agent Cody Banks'', playing the CIA handler of a teenage agent (Frankie Muniz). The film opened in March 2003 and became a minor hit, grossing $47 million.
Although Harmon was originally scheduled to appear in the sequel, the producers chose to take a more comedic approach, and replaced Harmon with comic actor Anthony Anderson as Banks' handler.
In 2006, Harmon co-starred with Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Woods in the direct-to-DVD political suspense drama ''
End Game''.
Personal life
Harmon is currently married to professional football player Jason Sehorn. The two were engaged on March 13, 2000, when Sehorn proposed marriage on the television talk show ''Tonight
