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Camryn Manheim is best-known for her Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning role on THE PRACTICE, She has also had well known roles on many CBS programs including GHOST WHISPERER, PERSON OF INTEREST, CRIMINAL MINDS, MAJOR CRIMES, CHICAGO HOPE and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_(TV_series)">EXTANT</a>.

Education and Early Life

Manheim was born in Caldwell, New Jersey on March 8, 1961. She grew up in Peoria, Illinois. Her mother is a teacher and her father was a mathematics professor. Her parents were Jewish. While she was working at a Renaissance fair in high school she developed interest in acting. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her Masters of Fine Arts degree at New York University. Camryn teaches and lectures all over the United States and abroad.

Career

While studying at New York University, Camryn learned sign language and worked as an interpreter and job coach while pursuing her acting career. She used her knowledge of sign language in many of her films.While working in New York City she met and worked with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kushner">Tony Kushner</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mayer_(director)">Michael Mayer</a>, and many other important members of the theater. Her first play in New York was Hydriotaphia, written and directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kushner">Tony Kushner</a>. She also worked in several well known theaters as The New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center, Yale Repertory, New York Theater Workshop, The Atlantic Theater, Classic Stage Company, & Second Stage.

She won an Emmy award in 1998 for her contribution in the TV series “The Practice”. Later, in 2005, Manheim earned the Golden Globe as well as the Emmy nominations for her performances in the miniseries Elvis. The actress is credited to have performed in a series of movies and television shows. According to Manheim’s biography, she studied acting at an Acting School located in Chelsea. She is at present a <a href="/biography/camryn-manheim">member</a> of the company at the Atlantic Theatre.

Manheim's big break in acting came with  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. Manheim played the feisty attorney defense attorney "Ellenor Frutt" on the drama The Practice for eight years. She won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for this role.

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Among the acclaimed movies where she played important roles are as follows:-

Sudden Impact, Creator, Road to Wellville, Cracking Up, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Whispers">Deadly Whispers</a>, Jeffrey, Eraser, Rescuing Desire, David Searching, Mercury Rising, You are here, The Tic Code, Fool’s Gold, Joe the King. Apart from these there are many films where Manheim played important roles.

TV shows

While Camryn Manheim is best-known for her Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning role on THE PRACTICE she has also had prominent roles on may othe TV shows including LAW AND ORDER, NEW YORK UNDERCOVER, CHICAGO HOPE,  GHOST WHISPERER, PERSON OF INTEREST, CRIMINAL MINDS, MAJOR CRIMES, CHICAGO HOPE and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_(TV_series)">EXTANT</a> and The PRACTICE.

In 2015, Manheim was in the Deaf West production of the musical Spring Awakening as Adult Women. The  cast for the production was composed of half hearing actors and half of deaf or hard-of-hearing actors. Each deaf actor (who signed their lines in American Sign Language) was paired with a hearing actor who said their lines verbally. Manheim voiced for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlee_Matlin">Marlee Matlin</a> as well as signing her own dialogue.

Marital Status

Currently Camryn Manheim is 56 years old and unmarried. Two days before she turned 40 Manheim gave birth to her only child. Manheim's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Manheim">son</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Manheim">Milo Jacob</a> was born on March 6, 2001. According to the National Enquirer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Manheim">Milo</a>'s father is a male model named Jeffrey Brezovar, a friend of Manheim's. It is believed that the friend donated sperm so that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Manheim">Milo</a> could be concieved by artificial insemination.

Manheim has had to deal with weight issues for a long period of time. Her book named Wake Up, I’m Fat! Also deals with the same issues. In 2007, she recieved a lot of media attention for her dramatic weight loss. There were rumors that she had lost the weight through plastic surgery but later on, she denied the fact saying that “It was really a change in lifestyle, wanting to have healthy food in the house so my son learned how to eat well”.

Like most other actresses and television star, Manheim has online visibility. She uses the social networking websites to communicate with her friends, fans and followers. Such actions help her to gain popularity among the US audience, increasing her online exposure, More popularity ultimately leads to more of fans and followers, higher net worth.

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