Angie Harmon began working as a child model, and in 1987 won a Seventeen modeling contest. She had a successful modeling career and became known in the early 1990s, working as a runway model and appearing on the covers of ELLE, Cosmopolitan and Esquire. In the beginning of her acting career, she had a leading role in Baywatch Nights and the short-lived C-16 FBI.

In the late 1990s, Harmon joined the NBC series Law & Order, playing ADA Abbie Carmichael from 1998 to 2001. She won praise for portraying Jane Rizzoli on the crime drama series Rizzoli & Isles, won the Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama Series or Special in 2012 and the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Cable TV Actress in 2015.

In 2021, the actress signed a multi-picture deal with Lifetime, and the first installment of the movie series, Buried in Barstow, will premiere on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Harmon serves as executive producer and also portrays single mother and former hit woman Hazel King, who is now a diner owner trying to escape her very dark past and live a quiet life. Buried in Barstow is directed by iconic director Howie Deutch, and additional cast includes George Paez, Kristoffer Polaha, Lauren Richards and Bruce McGill.

In a brand new interview with Smashing Interviews Magazine, Harmon reveals she has been asked to return to Law & Order and is considering the offer with caveats.

The following excerpt from the interview discusses that possibilty:

Smashing Interviews Magazine: Have you been asked to return to Law & Order at some point to reprise your role as Assistant District Attorney Abbie Carmichael?

Angie Harmon: I have been, and it’s definitely a possibility. We’d have to work some things out. I promised my girls when I finished shooting Rizzoli & Isles that I would not leave them again until they’ve left the house and gone off to college. I’ve kept that promise. When we shot Barstow, Lifetime was kind enough to have us shoot here. So I could do an arc or cameo on Law & Order, but I just can’t pick up and move my life for the next seven years to Manhattan. I just can’t do it.

Smashing Interviews Magazine: Olivia Benson (played by Mariska Hargitay) on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is television’s longest running primetime character. If you didn’t have children, would you have been interested in playing the same role for 23 seasons?

Angie Harmon: It depends on how much time off I got, to be honest. We were shooting so many hours a week on Law & Order, and that gets pretty brutal after a while. But there is such an ease once you get into the skin of a character, and I’m sure that after 23 years that would be really easy to do.

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