Camryn Manheim

Camryn Manheim born Debra Frances Manheim March 8 1961 is an American actress known for her roles as attorney Ellenor Frutt on ABCs The Practice Delia Banks on CBSs Ghost Whisperer Gladys Presley in the 2005 miniseries Elvis and Control on Person of Interest In 1999 she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work on The Practice and she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award In 2005 she earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her work in the miniseries Elvis Her breakthrough was her onewoman show Wake Up Im Fat which played offBroadway 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 She worked for a while as a sign language interpreter at hospitals Her knowledge of sign language was used on The Practice in an episode of Law Order and in her role as a child behavioral psychologist in the movie Mercury Rising In 2015 Manheim was in the Deaf West production of the musical Spring Awakening as Adult Women The production which had a cast composed half of hearing actors and half of deaf or hardofhearing actors paired every deaf actor who signed their lines in American Sign Language with a hearing actor who said their lines verbally Manheim voiced for deaf actress Marlee Matlin as well as signing her own dialogue in the parts of Frau Bergmann Fräulein Großebüstenhalter and Fräulein Knuppeldick Her other television credits include Chicago Hope Ally McBeal Family Guy Will Grace Boston Public Two and a Half Men The L Word How I Met Your Mother and Hannah Montana Since 2022 she has been part of the main cast of the revival of Law Order Her film credits include Romy and Micheles High School Reunion The Laramie Project Scary Movie 3 Dark Water and An Unfinished Life In August 2019 she was elected secretarytreasurer of the SAGAFTRA union Manheim was elected to the secretarytreasurer position She did not run for reelection in 2021 and was succeeded by Joely Fisher