Michelle Hurd Biography

Michelle Hurd (born December 21, 1966) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She is married to actor Garret Dillahunt.

Early life

Michelle Hurd is the daughter of actor Hugh L. Hurd. She graduated from Saint Ann's School in 1984 and Boston University in 1988, and studied with the Alvin Ailey School. After her graduation from college, she studied at Great Britain's National Theatre.

Career

Her Broadway credits include the 1996 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth flop Getting Away with Murder. Other theater credits include Othello, A.M.L., Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Looking for the Pony at Manhattan Theater Source with her sister Adrienne Hurd. She met her husband, Garret Dillahunt, in 900 Oneonta at Circle Repertory Theater Company. She has won several awards, including the Robbie Award and the California Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for the premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour.

She has also appeared in several movies, including Random Hearts, Personals and as the comic book superhero B.B. DaCosta/Fire in the unshown TV-pilot Justice League of America (1997). After working in television roles such as The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover and The Practice, she appeared in a 1997 episode of Law & Order. Her performance as a corrupt FBI informant caught the attention of L&O producer Dick Wolf, who two years later cast her in the spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Det. Monique Jeffries. She co-starred with Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay for the first season before leaving the series in 2000, but she did appear in the first, seventh and sixteenth episodes of season two, her final appearance being in March 2001. In 2001, she appeared in the Showtime original series Leap Years, where her character was the on and off love interest of a bisexual character played by her real-life husband.

Television roles include parts in Charmed, The O.C., According to Jim, Shark, Bones and Gossip Girl. In 2006 " 2007, she had a recurring role on ER as television news producer Courtney Brown, who became close to Dr. Kerry Weaver.

She played Diana, the leading role, in the Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company's February 10 " March 29, 2009 production of Lope de Vega's Dog in the Manger.

She won a Robbie Award as "best actress" for her work in the world premiere of The Violet Hour at South Coast Repertory. She played in Hamlet at the North Shore Theater.

In 2010, Hurd began a starring role on the A&E Network drama The Glades, playing Colleen Manus.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Rude Awakening	Student on street
1998	Wilbur Falls	State Police #2
1999	Personals	Lorraine
1999	Random Hearts	Susan
2000	Double Parked	Lola
2006	Play It by Ear	Mary Ann
2012	Girl Most Likely	Libby

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991-1997	Another World	Dana Kramer	TV series
1994	Vanishing Son II	Anita	TV film
1994-1995	New York Undercover	A.D.A. Reynolds	Recurring role (5 episodes)
1995	'	Jogger	Episode: "Comic Book Murder"
1995	New York News	Asia	Episode: "Good-Bye Gator"
1997	Justice League of America	B.B. DaCosta / Fire	TV pilot
1997	Law & Order	Angela Roney	Episode: "Entrapment"
1997	'	D.A. Renee Williams	Episodes: "Part V", "Dog Bite"
1997	Players	Laura Jenkins	Episode: "Con Amore"
1997-1998	Malcolm & Eddie	Simone Lewis	Recurring role (8 episodes)
1998	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	Diane Lerner	Episode: "The Getaway"
1999	Action	Gina	Episode: "Pilot"
1999-2001	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Det. Monique Jeffries	Regular role (25 episodes)
2001	'	Nettie Beaumont	Episode: "Lagniappe"
2001	Leap Years	Athena Barnes	Main role (20 episodes)
2003	Skin	Det. Kimberly Banks	Episodes: "Pilot", "Secrets & Lies", "Endorsement"
2004	According to Jim	Kitson	Episodes: "Dana Dates the Reverend", "When You Wish to Be a Star: Parts 1 & 2"
2004	Terminator 3: The Redemption	Various (voice)	Video game
2004	Kevin Hill	Dr. Brooke Mills	Episode: "Homework"
2004	'	Ms. Fisher	Episode: "The Way We Were"
2005	Charmed	Katya	Episode: "Little Box of Horrors"
2006	Bones	Det. Rose Harding	Episode: "The Man in the Morgue"
2006	Smith	Agent Lowry	Episode: "Pilot"
2006	Kidnapped	Katherine	Episode: "Burn, Baby, Burn"
2006-2007	ER	Courtney Brown	Recurring role (6 episodes)
2007	Shark	Dr. Connie Vasquez	Episode: "Strange Bedfellows"
2007-2008	Gossip Girl	Laurel	Recurring role (6 episodes)
2009	CSI: Miami	Agent Diane Reed	Episode: "Out of Time"
2009	Too Late to Say Goodbye	Det. Ann Roche	TV film
2009	'	Tamara	Episode: "Unprepared"
2010	FlashForward	Liz Kayson	Episode: "Course Correction"
2010-2012	'	Colleen Manus	Main role (30 episodes)
2011-2013	90210	Rachel Gray	Recurring role (6 episodes)
2012	Blue Bloods	CIA Anne Reynolds	Episode: "Risk and Reward"
2012	Naughty or Nice	Helen Purcell	TV film
2013	Emily Owens, M.D.	Diana Calder	Episode: "Emily and.. The Love of Larping"
2013	Golden Boy	Louise Reed	Episode: "Longshot"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Getting Away with Murder	Charmaine