Camryn Manheim
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Caldwell, New Jersey, USA
After toiling in minor film roles for years, Camryn Manheim finally attained the fame and respect denied to many overweight women who attempt to make it as actresses in Hollywood. In 1998, Manheim came to the attention of television audiences when she won a Best Supporting Actress Emmy for her role as lawyer Ellenor Frutt on David E. Kelley's acclaimed law drama The Practice. Hoisting her award in the air and exuberantly declaring, "This is for all the fat girls!", the actress won over millions of viewers, many of whom may not have been aware of her existence before the awards ceremony.Born in Caldwell, New Jersey on March 8, 1961, Manheim was raised in Peoria, Illinois and Long Beach California, the daughter of a math professor father and school teacher mother. She developed an interest in acting after attending a Renaissance fair at the age of sixteen, and she went on to get a Masters in Fine Arts from New York University in 1987. After graduating, Manheim made her (credited) screen debut with a miniscule role in Bonfire of the Vanities in 1990. A long series of similarly minor roles in films ranging from Jeffrey (1995) to Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) followed before she was cast in The Practice in 1997. After winning fame and an Emmy for her work on the show, Manheim gained additional exposure and respect with her role as a denizen of Todd Solondz's dysfunctional New Jersey suburbia in the acclaimed Happiness (1998). The following year, in addition to winning a Golden Globe and another Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Ellenor Frutt, Manheim continued to act in films, appearing in Fools Gold and Joe the King, both of which were shown at the 1999 Sundance Festival.In the decades to come, Manheim would appear in several films, like An Unfinished Life and Slipstream, as well as on several successful TVseries, like The L Word, Ghost Whisperer, and Harry's Law.In addition to acting, Manheim also authored Wake Up, I'm Fat, a memoir that began life as a one-woman show at New York's Public Theatre. By turns funny and excruciating, it details the actress's transformation from wholesome middle American to tattooed, dozen-earringed California biker, her struggles with those who told her she'd have to lose weight to fit in, and the trials and tribulations of making it in the entertainment industry.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | An American Girl Story: Summer Camp, Friends for Life |
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— | 2017 |
14% | Return to Sender |
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— | 2015 |
81% | Cop Car |
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$0.2M | 2015 |
50% | Fort McCoy |
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$78.7k | 2014 |
18% | Jewtopia |
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$34.6k | 2013 |
36% | The Hot Flashes |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The Makeover |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Without Men |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Faire: An American Renaissance |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Pregnancy Pact |
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— | 2010 |
29% | Love Hurts |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Jesse Stone: Thin Ice |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Just Peck |
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— | 2009 |
25% | Slipstream |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | The Land Before Time XII: Great Day of the Flyers |
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— | 2007 |
22% | Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School |
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$0.2M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Snow Wonder |
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— | 2005 |
52% | An Unfinished Life |
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$8.6M | 2005 |
47% | Dark Water |
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$25.5M | 2005 |
1% | Twisted |
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$25.1M | 2004 |
35% | Scary Movie 3 |
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— | 2003 |
92% | The Laramie Project |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | A Girl Thing |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Jenifer (The Jenifer Estess Story) |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Kiss My Act |
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— | 2001 |
42% | What Planet Are You From? |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | East of A |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Loretta Claiborne Story |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Jackie's Back |
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— | 1999 |
67% | Joe the King |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Cracking Up |
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— | 1998 |
81% | Happiness |
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— | 1998 |
75% | The Tic Code |
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— | 1998 |
21% | Mercury Rising |
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— | 1998 |
45% | Wide Awake |
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— | 1998 |
73% | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | David Searching |
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— | 1997 |
68% | Jeffrey |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Deadly Whispers |
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— | 1995 |
41% | The Road to Wellville |
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— | 1994 |
16% | The Bonfire of the Vanities |
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— | 1990 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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92% |
Stumptown
2019-2020
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91% |
The Magicians
2016-2019
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No Score Yet |
Celebrity Family Feud
2015-2020
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50% |
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
2019
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92% |
Person Of Interest
2011-2016
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No Score Yet |
Great Performances
2000
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18% |
Living Biblically
2018
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No Score Yet |
Major Crimes
2012-2018
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No Score Yet |
Code Black
2015-2018
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84% |
Masters of Sex
2013-2016
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77% |
Extant
2014-2015
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No Score Yet |
Vigilados: Person of Interest
2011-2016
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
Criminal Minds
2005-2020
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No Score Yet |
Doc McStuffins
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43% |
Harry's Law
2011-2012
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No Score Yet |
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008-2010
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No Score Yet |
Ghost Whisperer
2005-2010
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No Score Yet |
Hannah Montana
2006-2011
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83% |
How I Met Your Mother
2005-2014
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No Score Yet |
Comment je l'ai rencontrée
2005-2013
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57% |
The L Word
2004-2009
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No Score Yet |
Strong Medicine
2000-2006
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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65% |
Two and a Half Men
2003-2015
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No Score Yet |
The Practice
1997-2004
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No Score Yet |
Boston Public
2000-2005
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50% |
Gideon's Crossing
2000-2001
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
The 10th Kingdom
2000
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No Score Yet |
Will & Grace
1998-2006
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61% |
Ally McBeal
1997-2002
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No Score Yet |
Touched by an Angel
1994-2003
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No Score Yet |
New York Undercover
1994-1998
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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No Score Yet |
How I Met Your Mother
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Quotes from Camryn Manheim's Characters
Nurse: | Oh my God! Terrorists! |
Johnny C: | Terror? I'll show you some freakin' terror! Get your ass up here, I'll jump-start it! |