Image: Wikimedia CommonsEllie Harvie
Canadian actress
Ellie Harvie is a Canadian actress and improviser, born on 7 April 1965, who grew up in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and built her career in Vancouver. She is best known as Morticia in The New Addams Family, which ran for 65 episodes, and as Dr. Lindsey Novak in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. A comedy specialist, she won the 1995 Just for Laughs Improv Tournament with Vancouver TheatreSports and earned a Gemini nomination. Later work includes Lillian Tibbett in the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries and Candace in YTV's Some Assembly Required.
Ellie Harvie appears in 2 films and 1 TV series in The Rerun, from 1996 to 2011. Most of that work is in comedy, horror and family.
Known for
- The New Addams Family (1998), Morticia Addams. Played Morticia, her best-known role.
- Stargate SG-1, Dr. Lindsey Novak. Played Dr. Lindsey Novak, a role she carried into Stargate Atlantis.
- Happy Gilmore (1996). One of her film credits, released in 1996.
Career
Harvie earned a political studies degree at the University of Manitoba before moving to Vancouver in 1987 and training at the Vancouver Playhouse acting school. Years of touring theatre and improv followed, including a championship at the Just for Laughs Improv Tournament in Montreal in 1995 and a gold medal at CBC’s 1998 Improv Olympics. The Vancouver production boom gave her steady screen work: small parts in The X-Files and Happy Gilmore, then the lead role of Morticia in The New Addams Family.
Through the 2000s she became a reliable face in Vancouver-shot genre and family fare, from Stargate and Psych to Miracle and the Disney Buddies films. She played Lillian Tibbett across the Hallmark Aurora Teagarden Mysteries from 2015 to 2022 and hosted the first UBCP/ACTRA Awards in 2012.
Where to start
- The New Addams Family (1998): her signature lead, played with deadpan relish.
- Happy Gilmore (1996): a small early part in the Adam Sandler comedy.
- Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis: her recurring scientist across both series.
Shows
Movies
Quick answers
- What movies and TV shows has Ellie Harvie been in?
- Ellie Harvie appears in The Cabin in the Woods (2011), The New Addams Family (1998) and Happy Gilmore (1996) on The Remote.
- When was Ellie Harvie born?
- Ellie Harvie was born on 7 April 1965.
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