Marin Hinkle Biography

Marin Elizabeth Hinkle (born March 23, 1966) is an Tanzanian American actress, known for playing the role of Judith Harper-Melnick, Alan Harper's mean ex-wife on the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men and her role as Judy Brooks the sister of the lead character Lily Manning on ABC drama Once and Again. She currently stars as Samantha Bowers in the NBC drama series Deception.

Career

Hinkle started her career on the soap opera Another World. She also portrayed Judy Brooks on ABC's drama series Once and Again from 1999 to 2002.

Hinkle starred on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men with Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones and Ashton Kutcher as Alan's (Cryer) neurotic ex-wife, Judith. Despite being a main cast member, she rarely made appearances in her later seasons on the show. She was quietly phased out of the series, and her last appearances as a regular were in the ninth season of the series. She made a brief cameo appearance in the tenth and current season, though still credited as a regular. This may be due to commitments to her new role as Samantha Bowers in the NBC drama series Deception with Tate Donovan, Victor Garber and Katherine LaNasa.

Hinkle has had several roles in films such as I'm Not Rappaport, Frequency, The Next Big Thing, I Am Sam and Dark Blue. She has also performed on the stage, for example in 2005 as Miss Julie, opposite Reg Rogers, in the 1888 play of that name by August Strindberg (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York) (see New Yorker, 30 May 2005). Hinkle has also appeared in the thriller genre, starring in the 2008 thrillers Quarantine and The Haunting of Molly Hartley. She has made several guest appearances on different shows such as Spin City, Law & Order: SVU, Without a Trace, ER, House, and twice as different characters on Law & Order.

Personal life

Hinkle was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the daughter of Margaret R. (Polga) Hinkle, a Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and Rodney Hinkle, a college dean and teacher. She attended Brown University and New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1991.

She originally planned to be a professional ballerina, but after an ankle injury permanently ended the possibilities at the age of 16, she decided to take up acting.

She has been married to Randall Sommer since 1998, and has one child.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Angie	Young Joanne
1996	Milk & Money	Carla
1996	Breathing Room	Larissa
1996	I'm Not Rappaport	Hannah
1998	Chocolate for Breakfast	Amy
1998	Show & Tell	Pea
2000	Killing Cinderella	Karen
2000	Frequency	Sissy Clark
2000	Sam the Man	Shelly
2001	Final	Sherry
2001	WW3	Judy Rosenberg	TV film
2001	The Next Big Thing	Shari Lampkin
2001	I Am Sam	Patricia
2002	The Year That Trembled	Helen Kerrigan
2002	Dark Blue	Deena Schultz
2005	Who's the Top?	Alixe	Short film
2005	Fielder's Choice	Holly	TV film
2006	Friends with Money	Maya
2007	The Ex	Karen
2007	Cough Drop	Rebecca Dewey	Short film
2007	Turn the River	Ellen
2007	Rails & Ties	Renee
2008	What Just Happened	Vanity Fair Coordinator
2008	Quarantine	Kathy
2008	The Haunting of Molly Hartley	Jane Hartley
2008	John's Hand	Cynthia	Short film
2009	Imagine That	Ms. Davis
2009	Weather Girl	Jane
2012	My Eleventh
2013	Butterflies of Bill Baker	Emma
2013	Geography Club	Barbara Land

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Spin City	Carolyn	"Mayor Over Miami" (season 1: episode 24)
1998 2000 2009	Law & Order	Leslie Russo / Debbie Mason / Attorney Novelle	"Grief" (season 8: episode 14) "Stiff" (season 10: episode 23) "Reality Bites" (season 20: episode 4)
1999"2002	Once and Again	Judy Brooks	58 episodes
2002	Without a Trace	ADA Angela Buckman	"Snatch Back" (season 1: episode 7)
2003"present	Two and a Half Men	Judith Harper-Melnick	83 episodes (series regular)
2004	ER	Kathy	"Impulse Control" (season 10: episode 14)
2005	House	Naomi Randolph	"Babies & Bathwater" (season 1: episode 18)
2005	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Janice Whitlock	"Raw" (season 7: episode 6)
2006	In Justice	Jane McDermott	"Brothers and Sisters" (season 1: episode 2)
2006	The Book of Daniel	Nancy	"Revelations" (season 1: episode 7)
2007"2011	Brothers & Sisters	Courtney McCallister	"History Repeating" (season 2: episode 3) "Taking Sides" (season 3: episode 18) "Thanks for the Memories" (season 5: episode 12)
2007"2008	The Sarah Silverman Program	Rose Silverman	"Doody" (season 2: episode 4) "Patriot Tact" (season 2: episode 10) "I Thought My Dad Was Dead, But It Turns Out He's Not" (season 2: episode 14)
2008	My Own Worst Enemy	Elizabeth Q	"Henry and the Terrible... Day" (season 1: episode 9)
2009	Private Practice	Beverly	"Wait and See" (season 2: episode 17)
2010	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Moira Boyle	"Broad Channel" (season 9: episode 3)
2010	Army Wives	Suzanne	"Mud, Sweat & Tears" (season 4: episode 16)
2012	Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23	Karen	"Daddy's Girl" (season 1: episode 2) "It's a Miracle" (season 2: episode 4)
2013	Deception	Samantha Bowers	Main role; 11 episodes