Camryn Manheim

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.

How I Met Your Mother

8.2

Family Guy

7.4

Scary Movie 3

6.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.9

Criminal Minds

8.3

Two and a Half Men

7.5

Eraser

6.1

Person of Interest

8.1

Ghost Whisperer

8.1

The Magicians

7.6

Mercury Rising

6.3

This Is Us

8.2

Return to Sender

6.1

Dark Water

5.7

Sudden Impact

6.5

Cop Car

5.9

Happiness

7.5

The L Word

7.6

Hannah Montana

7.2

An Unfinished Life

6.8

Law & Order

7.4

Twisted

5.6

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

6.2

Will & Grace

6.8

The F**k-It List

6.1

The Bonfire of the Vanities

5.6

Utopia

7.2

Masters of Sex

7.1

Big Shot

8.0

Extant

6.3

Ally McBeal

6.6

Hell's Kitchen

6.8

Law & Order: Organized Crime

7.9

The 10th Kingdom

7.6

Younger

6.8

Waco

7.4

The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses

6.3

Touched by an Angel

7.2

The Road to Wellville

5.6

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

6.2

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

5.5

Stumptown

7.2

What Planet Are You From?

5.5

The Pregnancy Pact

5.1

MADtv

6.9

The Practice

7.7

The View

4.4

Slipstream

4.9

Wide Awake

5.5

Jesse Stone: Thin Ice

6.9

Chicago Hope

7.2

The Makeover

5.6

All About Nina

6.0

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

5.8

Jeffrey

6.3

Dilbert

6.9

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

4.9

The Laramie Project

6.5

Elvis

6.4

The Hot Flashes

4.7

Boston Public

7.7

Joe the King

6.1

Harry's Law

7.3

Celebrity Family Feud

7.9

Without Men

4.1

Love Hurts

5.0

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings

6.7

Cruel Instruction

6.9

Just Peck

5.4

Great Performances

5.2

Snow Wonder

5.3

Golden Globe Awards

6.8

Strong Medicine

7.1

David Searching

5.4

A Girl Thing

4.2

The Tony Danza Show

6.1

The Early Show

5.7

Living Biblically

5.3

Sherri

4.2

Killing Eleanor

8.5

Deadly Whispers

4.8

Jackie's Back!

7.8

Rescuing Desire

3.3

The Megan Mullally Show

4.2

Jenifer

7.0

Fort McCoy

4.8

25 Words or Less

6.7

Kiss My Act

5.5

The Loretta Claiborne Story

5.0

Oh Baby

5.0

The Doc Files

2.0

Sign the Show

0.0

East of A

0.0

You Are Here

0.0

Fool's Gold

0.0

Camilla Dickinson

3.0

My Crazy Life

0.0

Stars in the House

0.0