
Camryn Manheim
Biography
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.
Acting (47 movies)

Sign the Show
2023

An Unfinished Life
2005

Scary Movie 3
2003

Killing Eleanor
2020

Love Hurts
2009

The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses
2005

Mercury Rising
1998

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997

Jeffrey
1995

Slipstream
2007

Joe the King
1999

The Pregnancy Pact
2010

Rescuing Desire
1996

Cruel Instruction
2022

The Makeover
2013

The Hot Flashes
2013

Snow Wonder
2005

Kiss My Act
2001

Jenifer
2001

The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990

Happiness
1998

Cop Car
2015

Twisted
2004

Fort McCoy
2014

Dark Water
2005

Return to Sender
2015

The Laramie Project
2002

Wide Awake
1998

Deadly Whispers
1995

Just Peck
2011

Camilla Dickinson
2012

Without Men
2011

Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
2009

All About Nina
2018

The Road to Wellville
1994

David Searching
1997

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006

A Girl Thing
2001

The F**k-It List
2020

The Loretta Claiborne Story
2000

Eraser
1996

What Planet Are You From?
2000

Sudden Impact
1983

The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers
2006

Jackie's Back!
1999

Behind the Smile
2006

The Tic Code
1998
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