Angela Michelle Harmon is an American actress and model. She won Seventeen’s modelling contest in 1987 at age 15, signed with IMG Models, and appeared on covers for magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Esquire.
Her acting breakthrough came with the role of Ryan McBride on Baywatch Nights (1995–1997), and she earned four Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for playing Abbie Carmichael on Law & Order (1998–2001).
Harmon also appeared in a number of film roles, which notably include Barbara Gordon in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) and Ronica Miles in Agent Cody Banks (2003).
She won the Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama Series or Special in 2012 and the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Cable TV Actress in 2015.
She has starred in a number of Lifetime network’s original projects, which include the biographical special Video Voyeur (2002) and the critically-acclaimed feature Living Proof (2008). In 2021, she signed an exclusive multi-picture deal with Lifetime.
How much was Angie Harmon paid for Rizzoli and Isles?
During the first season of “Rizzoli & Isles,” Harmon was paid $75,000 per episode. During the 2011–2012 season, her salary was increased to $80,000, and during the peak of the series, she was reportedly paid $185,000 per episode.
She guest-starred in “Samantha Who?” (2009) and “Chuck” (2010), and from 2010 to 2016, she played Jane Rizzoli in Sasha Alexander’s Maura Isles on “Rizzoli & Isles.”
Based on a series of novels by Tess Gerritsen, the show aired 105 episodes over seven seasons. Harmon appeared in Craig Morgan’s “This Ole Boy” music video in 2012, and from 2017 to 2018, she voiced Lady Trigel in three episodes of “Voltron: Legendary Defender.”
In 2021, she narrated the Lifetime docuseries “Cellmate Secrets,” and she entered into a multi-picture development deal to star in, direct, and produce projects for the network.
In 2012, Harmon won a Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama Series or Special for “Rizzoli & Isles,” and she received a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Cable TV Actress for the series in 2015.
“Rizzoli & Isles” earned Angie and co-star Sasha Alexander a “TV Guide” Award nomination for Favorite Duo in 2014, and Harmon received a Women’s Image Network Award nomination for Actress Drama Series for the episode “See One, Do One, Teach One.”
Angie and her “Law & Order” co-stars earned Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series nominations from the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.