Camryn Manheim

Known for ActingBorn 1961-03-08 (age 65)West Caldwell, New Jersey, USA

Camryn Manheim (born Debra Frances Manheim, March 8, 1961) is an American actress known for her roles as attorney Ellenor Frutt on ABC's The Practice, Delia Banks on CBS's Ghost Whisperer, Gladys Presley in the 2005 miniseries Elvis, and "Control" on Person of Interest. In 1999, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work on The Practice, and she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award. In 2005, she earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her work in the miniseries Elvis. Her breakthrough was her one-woman show "Wake Up, I'm Fat", which played off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company in 1994. She adapted the show into a book of the same name, which was published by Broadway Books in 1999. She worked for a while as a sign language interpreter at hospitals. Her knowledge of sign language was used on The Practice, in an episode of Law & Order, and in her role as a child behavioral psychologist in the movie Mercury Rising. In 2015, Manheim was in the Deaf West production of the musical Spring Awakening as Adult Women. The production, which had a cast composed half of hearing actors and half of deaf or hard-of-hearing actors, paired every deaf actor (who signed their lines in American Sign Language) with a hearing actor who said their lines verbally. Manheim voiced for deaf actress Marlee Matlin as well as signing her own dialogue in the parts of Frau Bergmann, Fräulein Großebüstenhalter, and Fräulein Knuppeldick. Her other television credits include Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, Family Guy, Will & Grace, Boston Public, Two and a Half Men, The L Word, How I Met Your Mother, and Hannah Montana. Since 2022, she has been part of the main cast of the revival of Law & Order. Her film credits include Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, The Laramie Project, Scary Movie 3, Dark Water, and An Unfinished Life. In August 2019, she was elected secretary-treasurer of the SAG-AFTRA union. Manheim was elected to the secretary-treasurer position. She did not run for reelection in 2021, and was succeeded by Joely Fisher.Read more

Movies & web series

East of A

You Are Here

Killing Eleanor

This Is Us

Criminal Minds

Person of Interest

How I Met Your Mother

Big Shot

Ghost Whisperer

Law & Order: Organized Crime

Celebrity Family Feud

Fool's Gold

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Magicians

The L Word

The Practice

Boston Public

Waco

The 10th Kingdom

Harry's Law

Hollywood Squares

A Girl Thing

Two and a Half Men

Oh Baby

Strong Medicine

Happiness

Family Guy

Utopia

Stumptown

Masters of Sex

Hannah Montana

Law & Order

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Chicago Hope

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings

Touched by an Angel

Murder in a Small Town

Cruel Instruction

My Crazy Life

Younger

MADtv

Jesse Stone: Thin Ice

An Unfinished Life

Will & Grace

Jackie's Back!

Hell's Kitchen

Dilbert

Golden Globe Awards