Multi-talented actor Steve Harris has twice been
nominated for an Emmy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category
for his impassioned portrayal of partner Eugene Young on ABC's
The Practice. In addition he won the 1998 and 1999 Viewers for
Quality Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama,
and was again nominated for that award in 2000. He was also nominated
for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Harris' motion picture credits include the Spielberg-directed feature
Minority Report, The Rock, Sugar Hill and The Skulls. In addition
he appeared in Bringing Down the House.
Born and raised in Chicago, Harris earned a graduate degree in
theater from the University of Delaware. After graduation several
theater roles led to a guest-starring appearance in the pilot episode
of Homicide: Life on the Street and to a breakthrough role in Against
the Wall, a docudrama about Attica.
Harris' other television credits include Law & Order, New York
Undercover, Murder One and Chicago Hope.
Also a seasoned stage actor, Harris earned critical acclaim for
his off-Broadway performance in Heliotrope Bouquet and in the regional
productions of Macbeth, Richard III, Julius Caesar and The Great
White Hope.
