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Harriet Sansom Harris (born January 8, 1955), is an actress born in Fort Worth, Texas. Harris started acting as a youngster and attended New York's famed Juilliard School. After graduation from Juilliard's Drama Division, she joined John Houseman's touring repertory company The Acting Company, where she stayed for three years. During this time, she performed in productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Romeo and Juliet, the classic Antigone, and alongside Frances Conroy in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. A successful Broadway career soon followed. Harris's breakthrough stage performance came in the original cast of Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey, where she appeared as the sole female cast member. Her work in Jeffrey led to numerous television guest appearances, including a recurring role on the TV series Frasier as Frasier's conniving agent Bebe Glazer.

Harris currently has a role on the hit dramedy Desperate Housewives as Felicia Tilman. Some of her other television credits include The Five Mrs. Buchanans, Union Square, and It's All Relative. Harris has frequently appeared in guest roles on several notable series, including Murphy Brown, Ally McBeal, Six Feet Under, and Ellen. Among her most memorable guest appearances was her performance on The X-Files as Dr. Sally Hendricks and her "Eve" clones, from which the band Eve 6 derived its name.

Harris received a Tony Award in 2002 as a Featured Actress in a Musical for playing Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie
.

She will be appearing as Vera in the Kennedy Center's production of Mame
in the summer of 2006.

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