Michelle Hurd (born December 21, 1966) is an American stage, film, and television actress. Michelle Hurd is the daughter of actor Hugh L. Hurd. She graduated from Saint Ann's School in 1984 and Boston University in 1988, and studied with the Alvin Ailey School. After her graduation from college, she studied with Great Britain's National Theatre. Her Broadway credits include GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER" other theater credits include "Othello", "A.M.L.", Hamlet, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Looking for the pony" at Manhattan Theater Source with her sister Adrienne Hurd. She met her husband, Garret Dillahunt, in "900 Oneonta" at Circle Repertory Theater Company. She has won several awards, including the Robbie Award and the California Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for The premiere of Richard Greenberg's "The Violet Hour".
She has also appeared in several movies, including Random Hearts, Personals and as the comic book superhero B.B. DaCosta/Fire in the unaired TV-pilot Justice League of America (1997). After working in television roles such as The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover and The Practice, she appeared on a 1997 episode of Law & Order. Her turn as a corrupt FBI informant caught the attention of L&O producer Dick Wolf, who two years later cast her in the spinoff Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Det. Monique Jeffries. She co-starred with Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay for the first season before leaving the series in 2000, but she did appear in the first, seventh, and sixteenth episodes of season two, her final appearance in March 2001. In 2001, she appeared in the Showtime original series Leap Years.
Recent television roles include The O.C., According to Jim, "Shark" and "Bones". In 2006 - 2007 she had a recurring role on ER as television news producer Courtney Brown, who became close to Dr. Kerry Weaver.
External links
Hurd's biography
Michelle Hurd at the Internet Movie Database
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