Born in Texas, Harriet Sansom Harris got involved in acting as a youngster. At seventeen, Harris was accepted at New York's famed Juilliard School. Upon graduation, Harris joined The Acting Company, a repertory group formed by the first alumni of John Houseman's Drama Division of The Juilliard School. She spent three years with the Company before she left to work primarily in regional theater. This led to a successful Broadway and Off-Broadway career. Her life changed after appearing as the sole female in the original cast of "Jeffrey", Paul Rudnick's smash Off-Broadway hit about love in the time of AIDS. "Jeffrey" led to guest shots on series television, including "Frasier" (1993), where she created the memorable role of "Bebe Glazer", Frasier's cutthroat, neurotic, chain-smoking agent. She also won raves from critics for her role of "Vivian Buchanan" on CBS's "The 5 Mrs. Buchanans" (1994). She now calls New York her home, but frequently travels to California for film and television appearances. IMDb Mini Biography By: Dan Flave-Novak

Filmography

• Dutton Ranch — Jeanie Edwards
• 2026The King of Black Goo — Captain
• 2025Americana — Tish
• Long Bright River — Mrs. Mahon
• 2025Magazine Dreams — Patricia Waldron
• Clipped — 'Justine'
• The Agency — Dr Rachel Blake
• Frasier — Bebe Glazer
• 2023Jules — Sandy
• 2022Werewolf by Night — Verussa Bloodstone
• Hacks — Susan
• 2021Licorice Pizza — Mary Grady
• The Mysterious Benedict Society — Rowena
• Atlantic Crossing — Eleanor Roosevelt
• 2020Baby — The Woman
• 2020Eleanor — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Hollywood — Eleanor Roosevelt
• 2017Phantom Thread — Barbara Rose
• 2016Her Last Will — Dina Cotton
• 2015Show Boat — Parthy Ann Hawks
• Supergirl — Sinead
• 2014Love Is Strange — Honey
• 2014Russian Broadway Shut Down
• Robot and Monster — Bea Holder (voice)
• American Horror Story — Madelyn
• 2011Rampart — Stacy Cranston
• Shake It Up — Dr. Pepper
• 2009Moonlight Serenade — Angelica Webster
• Help Me Help You
• The Lost Room — Margaret Milne
• American Dad! — Mrs. Reagan (voice)
• Ghost Whisperer — Marilyn Mandeville
• 2005Monster-in-Law — Therapist
• Desperate Housewives — Felicia Tilman
• 2004Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter — Bebe Glazer
• Quintuplets — Ms. Hentschel
• It's All Relative — Audrey O'Neil
• Bram & Alice
• Six Feet Under — Catherine Collins
• The Beast
• 2001The One — Nurse Besson
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Eva
• God, the Devil and Bob — Martha Stewart (voice)
• 2000Memento — Mrs. Jankis
• 2000Nurse Betty — Ellen
• Strong Medicine — Governer Barbara Curtis
• 2000The Man Who Came to Dinner — Maggie Cutler
• Family Law — Lois Nelson
• Stark Raving Mad — Audrey Radford
• 1998The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story — Turtle/Rhesus (voice)
• Ally McBeal — Cheryl Bonner
• 1997Friends 'Til the End — Mrs. Boxer
• 1997Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest — Millie Ogden
• The Practice — Ellen Blake
• Union Square — Suzanne Barkley
• Millennium — Maureen Murphy
• 1996Romeo + Juliet — Susan Santandiago
• Caroline in the City — Miss McGowan
• Space: Above and Beyond — Diane Hayden
• Chicago Hope — Mrs. Holgren
• Ellen — Claire
• Monty — Mrs. King
• 1994Quiz Show — Enright's Secretary
• The 5 Mrs. Buchanans — Vivian Buchanan
• 1993Addams Family Values — Ellen Buckman
• Diagnosis: Murder — Marisa Parkhurst
• 1993Dottie Gets Spanked — Sharon's Mother
• Frasier — Bebe Glazer
• Good Advice — Marilyn
• The X-Files — Dr. Sally Kendrick / Eve 6
• 1992Fool's Fire — Lady Clarice
• 1991Golden Years — Francie Wil
• Golden Years — Francie Wil
• Sisters
• Law & Order — Sheila, Ms. Kenny
• Doctor Doctor
• Murphy Brown
• American Playhouse — Lady Clarice

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2022Director by Night — Self
• Stars in the House — Self - Special Guest
• 2010Still on the Road — Self