Elinor Anne Harvie is a Canadian actress who portrayed Morticia on The New Addams Family. Later, she starred as Dr. Lindsey Novak in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Harvie was the youngest of five children born into a U.S. Air Force family. They eventually settled in West Germany where her father became an intelligence agent and learned several languages, including German, Russian, Spanish, and French. Elinor Anne Harvie: From The New Addams Family to Stargate SG-1
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Elinor Anne Harvie is a Canadian actress who portrayed Morticia on The New Addams Family. Later, she starred as Dr. Lindsey Novak in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Harvie was the youngest of five children born into a U.S. Air Force family. They eventually settled in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1962 before eventually moving east after retirement to join relatives back in Michigan, then returning west and settling in Oakville, Ontario not too long afterwards. Ellie Anne Harvie (born November 4, 1967) is a Canadian actress who portrayed Morticia on the television series The New Addams Family. She went on to star as Dr. Lindsey Novak in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Harvie was the youngest of five children born into a U.S. Air Force family; they eventually settled in Arizona before she started kindergarten there. Elinor Anne Harvie: From The New Addams Family to Stargate SG-1
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Ellie Harvie is a Canadian actress who portrayed Morticia on the 1990s television series The New Addams Family. After that, she starred as Dr. Lindsey Novak in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. She is the youngest of five children born into a US Air Force family. They eventually settled in Spokane, Washington where Ellie was born and raised. She has been involved with the theater from an early age when her mother enrolled her in dramatic arts lessons at age four. At 18, she moved to Toronto for one year to study acting at George Brown College’s prestigious Theatre School program.
Family
Ellie was the youngest of five children born into a U.S. Air Force family. They eventually settled in Canada, where Ellie took an interest in acting. She won a trip to Los Angeles as first runner up in a BOC contest, so her mother encouraged her to give Hollywood a try. After three months and no work, she returned home to Vancouver and landed the role of Morticia on The New Addams Family. When the show ended, she made guest appearances on Falcon Crest and Murder She Wrote, before landing her most famous role as Dr. Lindsey Novak on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.
Relationship
Harvie was the youngest of five children born into a U.S. Air Force family. They eventually settled in Aurora, Colorado, where she was educated in both the public school system and at home. Her parents are Dr. Leland Harvie (a pathologist) and Barbara Harvie (a homemaker). She has two sisters, one brother, and one sister-in-law. After high school Ellie studied acting for three years at The Theatre School in Montreal before returning to live with her family on the East Coast of Canada.
Physical info
Harvie is 5 feet, 2 inches tall and was born in Dallas, Texas. She began acting professionally at age 14 with a guest spot on The Bionic Woman. A year later she played Morticia on The New Addams Family. In 1981, at age 16, she was featured in a three-week run of the stage production of Rockabye Hamlet at Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre. (Wikipedia) Her other credits include roles as Dr. Lindsey Novak in the television series Stargate SG-1 and its spinoff series Stargate Atlantis.
In 1984 she appeared as a contestant on Match Game ’84, alongside fellow Canadians Eugene Levy and Ivan Reitman.
Career
Before embarking on a career in acting, Ellie Harvie took some time out of the limelight and graduated from Princeton University in 1981 with a degree in English. Her first foray into show business came when she was cast as Morticia on TV’s The New Addams Family from 1991 to 1992.
Awards
In 1992, she was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role as Morticia on the television series The New Addams Family. In 1996, she starred in the TV movie Destination: Space and received a nomination for a Saturn Award. She starred in three episodes of the popular science fiction TV series Stargate SG-1, portraying Dr. Lindsey Novak from 2001 to 2003.
Net worth
Starting out her acting career in the late 70s, Elinor Harvie made quite an impression as Morticia on television’s The New Addams Family. She also starred in other cult shows such as Heroes and 24. Though she doesn’t have a lot of screen time in the popular sci-fi series Stargate SG-1, she had starring roles on both Stargate Atlantis and Continuum.
Early Life
Elinor Anne Harvie was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but spent most of her life living all over the world due to her father’s work in the United States Air Force. In 1978, when she was five years old, her family settled in Edmonton. She graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School and later attended Mount Royal College. She left after one year when she won a scholarship to attend Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto.
Personal Life
Elinor was born in the United States into a military family. She spent her youth living in Germany, Thailand, and England before her family settled back in North America. Harvie has degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (BA) and Stanford University (MA). She credits much of her acting success to excellent training at U.C.B., where she studied with Mike Nichols and his protégé Warren Leight, author of At Wit’s End.
Net Worth
Harvie has an estimated net worth of $500,000. Elinor Anne Harvie was born on December 22, 1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is best known for her portrayal of Morticia on the original The New Addams Family. She went on to guest star in a number of television shows and movies including Star Trek: Voyager and Joan of Arcadia before landing the role as Dr. Lindsey Novak in two incarnations of the Stargate franchise.
Q.&A.
What are your goals for the future? I want to stay in this industry and be more known for my work. What’s one thing about you that most people don’t know? I went to culinary school for pastry art! How did you get into acting? A girlfriend told me that there was an open casting call so I showed up and walked out with a part. Do you have any pre-show rituals? Toast with honey before each take! Watching YouTube videos of babies talking in order to calm myself down! Getting in a car with my face pressed against the window, looking at lights, walking past trees on sidewalks…I try not to see anyone because I feel like they’re all judging me.