Camryn Manheim
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.
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.
Known for
Sign the Show
Sherri
Cruel Instruction
Big Shot
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Killing Eleanor
Utopia
The F**k-It List
Stars in the House
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
Stumptown
All About Nina
25 Words or Less
Living Biblically
Waco
This Is Us
The Magicians
Cop Car
Celebrity Family Feud
Return to Sender
Younger
Extant
Fort McCoy
Masters of Sex
The Doc Files
The Hot Flashes
The Makeover
Person of Interest
Without Men
Just Peck
Harry's Law
The Pregnancy Pact
Love Hurts
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
Slipstream
Hannah Montana
The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers
Snow Wonder
Ghost Whisperer
Criminal Minds
How I Met Your Mother
An Unfinished Life
Dark Water
Hell's Kitchen
Elvis
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses
Twisted
The L Word
Scary Movie 3
Two and a Half Men
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Laramie Project
Jenifer
Kiss My Act
A Girl Thing
Boston Public
Strong Medicine
The 10th Kingdom
The Loretta Claiborne Story
The Early Show
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Jackie's Back!
Family Guy
Dilbert
Joe the King
Happiness
Will & Grace
Oh Baby
Mercury Rising
Wide Awake
Ally McBeal
The View
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
The Practice
David Searching
Eraser
MADtv
Jeffrey
Deadly Whispers
The Road to Wellville
Chicago Hope
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Law & Order
Sudden Impact