Michelle Hurd
Biography
Michelle Hurd is an American actress whose television career began with the soap opera Another World in 1991. She gained attention for playing Monique Jeffries in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, then led Leap Years and took recurring roles in Skin, According to Jim, ER, and Gossip Girl. She starred in The Glades and Blindspot, and in 1997 played the superhero B.B. DaCosta, also called Fire, in the pilot Justice League of America. She played Raffi Musiker in Star Trek: Picard from 2020 to 2023. The romantic comedy Anyone but You (2023) became her highest-grossing film. On stage, she made her Broadway debut in Getting Away with Murder and won a Robbie Award and a California Theatre Award for The Violet Hour.
59years old
Turns 60 on December 21in 69 days
- Born New York City
- Star sign: SagittariusLast day of the sign, on the Capricorn cusp
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 29 years1997 to 2026
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Big break
Michelle Hurd was cast as Detective Monique Jeffries on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit after her 1997 guest spot as a corrupt FBI informant on the original Law & Order caught producer Dick Wolf's attention.
Early training
After finishing college, Hurd went on to study at the National Theatre in London, where she trained at that institution.
Early training
Hurd finished her studies at Saint Ann's School in 1984, then Boston University in 1988, and she trained at the Alvin Ailey School as well.
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Films together
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All films by Will Gluck
All films by Sydney Pollack
Ol ParkerDirector, 1 film, 2026
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