Angie Harmon

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Angie Harmon Biography

Angie Harmon was born on August 10th, 1972, in Dallas, Texas. A model from an early age, her childhood career must have been in her genes since both of her parents were models as well.

This brown-eyed brunette won the national cover contest for Seventeen magazine at the age of 15, chosen out of a group of 63,000 other teenagers. A car was one of the contest prizes, even though she wasn't even old enough to drive. After a trip to New York to attend a national photo shoot, Harmon returned to her studies at Highland Park High School.

Once she graduated in 1990, Harmon settled in New York and began modeling, although her childhood dream was to become an actress. Her successful modeling career includes appearances in high fashion magazines such as Vogue, Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, GQ, and Esquire, as well as European magazines. She also strutted her stuff down fashion runways in the fashion capitals of the world and caught the eyes of designers such as Armani, Ralph Lauren and Isaac Mizrahi.

Angie 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's handler. In 2006, Harmon co-starred with Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Woods in the direct-to-DVD political suspense drama End Game.

In 2006, Harmon starred as the lead in the ABC pilot Secrets of a Small Town. Despite testing highly with focus groups, the pilot was not picked up by ABC due to its high budget. In 2007, she starred in another ABC pilot, Women's Murder Club, which was picked up by ABC.

Angie Harmon is married to former professional football player Jason Sehorn. The two were engaged on March 13, 2000. Harmon was taping an interview segment on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno when Leno called Sehorn out as a surprise guest. Sehorn immediately walked up to where Angie was sitting, and knelt down on one knee in front of her chair. Sehorn asked her to marry him, to Angie's complete and visible surprise. (She thought that he was in New York at the time.) They were married on June 9, 2001 and have two daughters: Finley Faith (born October 14, 2003 in Dallas, Texas) and Avery Grace (born June 22, 2005 in Dallas, Texas).

Harmon is a Republican with a socially conservative political philosophy. She and her husband delivered a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention.