Carolyn McCormick

Carolyn McCormick was born in Texas and graduated first in her class from high school. She went to Williams College and graduated with honors and a B.F.A., writing  and directing her senior thesis on Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit. She also holds an M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco where she was a company member for several years. She has worked extensively in television, film, and theatre, as well as being the voice in many documentaries and recording myriad books on tape. Her first film was Wolfgang Peterson’s Enemy Mine with Dennis Quaid and her first television series was Spenser For Hire. She was also a regular on the American version of the British series Cracker.  Many people recognize her from the first two seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation where she played the holodeck simulation ‘Minuet’. She is best known, however, for her work on Law & Order, where she has played Dr. Elizabeth Olivet since 1991, appearing in all the various incarnations of the show.  One of her favorite films is You Know My Name, a western in which she plays Sam Elliot’s wife. Other television credits include Cold Case, The Practice, Judging Amy, Homicide, LA Law to name but a few. Other film credits include A Simple Twist of Fate, Rain Without Thunder, Loverboy, and the soon to be released Nights in Roadanthe(dir.by George C. Wolfe), True Nature(dir. by Patrick Steele), Company Retreat(dir. by Campbell Scott), Spectropia(dir. by Toni Dove), and Proud Iza(dir. by Anna Condo). She can also be heard in many of Ken Burn’s documentaries including his acclaimed The War and she has recorded many books, including  James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club series. Her true passion is the theatre though, and she has preformed in dozens of plays over the years. A few of her favorite Broadway and off Broadway shows have been The Dinner Party, Celebration, Biography, Dinner with Friends, Evo-lution, and Privilege and regionally Saint Joan, Uncle Vanya, Much Ado About Nothing, The Father, Hedda Gabler,Arm and the Man, The Philadelphia Story and Present Laughter. For more information, please visit her website at Carolyn McCormick.com