Marin Hinkle

Marin Hinkle
Hinkle at the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 2011
Born	Marin Elizabeth Hinkle (1966-03-23) March 23, 1966 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Nationality	Tanzanian, American
Education	Brown University (BA) New York University (MFA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Randall Sommer ​ ​ (m. 1998; div. 2024)​
Children	1

Marin Elizabeth Hinkle (born March 23, 1966) is a Tanzanian born American actress. Among many television and movie roles, she is best known for playing Judy Brooks on the ABC television drama Once and Again, Judith Harper-Melnick on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, and Rose Weissman on the comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime Video. For her role in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Hinkle was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2019 and 2020.

Early life

Hinkle was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to American parents. She is the daughter of Margaret R. (Polga) Hinkle, a judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and Rodney Hinkle, a college dean and teacher, who met while serving in the Peace Corps. Her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, when she was four months old. Two years later, her brother Mark was born. After graduating from Newton South High School, she attended Brown University and New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1991.

Career

Hinkle played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, opposite Jean Stapleton playing the Nurse, at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC from January 25 to March 13, 1994, at the Lansburgh Theatre in Washington DC. On Broadway, she played Kuroko and was the understudy for Miranda in The Tempest from November 1 to December 31, 1995, at the Broadhurst Theatre. She played Sandra Markowitz in A Thousand Clowns from July 14 to August 10, 1996, at the Criterion Center Stage Right. She also played Chrysothemis in Electra from December 3, 1998, to March 21, 1999, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Hinkle started her TV career on the soap opera Another World. She also portrayed Judy Brooks on ABC's drama series Once and Again from 1999 to 2002. Hinkle starred on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men with Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, and later Ashton Kutcher as Alan's neurotic ex-wife, Judith. Despite being a main cast member, she rarely made appearances after the show's eighth season. She was quietly phased out of the series, and her last appearances as a regular were in the ninth season of the series. She made only one appearance each in the last three seasons, though she was still credited as a regular. This may have been due to commitments to her new role as Samantha Bowers in the NBC drama series Deception with Tate Donovan, Victor Garber and Katherine LaNasa.

Hinkle has had roles in films such as I'm Not Rappaport, Frequency, The Next Big Thing, I Am Sam, and Dark Blue. She has also performed on stage in 2005 as the titular character in Miss Julie, opposite Reg Rogers. She appeared in the 2008 thrillers Quarantine and The Haunting of Molly Hartley, and has made guest appearances on shows such as Spin City, Law & Order: SVU, Without a Trace, ER, House, and twice as characters on Law & Order.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Angie	Young Joanne
1996	Milk & Money	Carla
1996	Breathing Room	Larissa
1996	I'm Not Rappaport	Hannah
1998	Chocolate for Breakfast	Amy
1998	Show & Tell	Pea
2000	Killing Cinderella	Karen
2000	Frequency	Sissy Clark
2001	Sam the Man	Shelly
2001	Final	Sherry
2001	The Next Big Thing	Shari Lampkin
2001	I Am Sam	Patricia
2002	The Year That Trembled	Helen Kerrigan
2002	Dark Blue	Assistant District Attorney Deena Schultz
2005	Who's the Top?	Alixe	Short film
2006	Friends with Money	Maya
2007	The Ex	Karen
2007	Cough Drop	Rebecca Dewey	Short film
2007	Turn the River	Ellen
2007	Rails & Ties	Renee
2008	What Just Happened	Vanity Fair Coordinator
2008	Quarantine	Kathy
2008	The Haunting of Molly Hartley	Jane Hartley
2008	John's Hand	Cynthia	Short film
2009	Imagine That	Ms. Davis
2009	Weather Girl	Jane
2012	My Eleventh
2013	Butterflies of Bill Baker	Emma
2013	Geography Club	Barbara Land
2014	Cowgirls 'n Angels: Dakota's Summer	Clara
2017	Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle	Janice Gilpin, Spencer's Mom
2019	Jumanji: The Next Level
2024	Players	Karen Kirk

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Another World	Alison Van Rohan	Episode #1.7922
1997	Spin City	Carolyn	Episode: "Mayor Over Miami"
1998	Law & Order	Leslie Russo	Episode: "Grief"
1999–2002	Once and Again	Judy Brooks	58 episodes
2000	Law & Order	Debbie Mason	Episode: "Stiff"
2001	WW3	Judy Rosenberg	Television film
2002	Without a Trace	Assistant District Attorney Angela Buckman	Episode: "Snatch Back"
2003–2015	Two and a Half Men	Judith Harper-Melnick	83 episodes
2004	ER	Kathy	Episode: "Impulse Control"
2005	House	Naomi Randolph	Episode: "Babies & Bathwater"
2005	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Janice Whitlock	Episode: "Raw"
2005	Fielder's Choice	Holly	Television film
2006	The Book of Daniel	Nancy	Episode: "Revelations"
2006	In Justice	Jane McDermott	Episode: "Brothers and Sisters"
2007–2011	Brothers & Sisters	Courtney McCallister	3 episodes
2007–2008	The Sarah Silverman Program	Rose Silverman	3 episodes
2008	My Own Worst Enemy	Elizabeth Q	Episode: "Henry and the Terrible... Day"
2009	Private Practice	Beverly	Episode: "Wait and See"
2009	Law & Order	Attorney Novelle	Episode: "Reality Bites"
2010	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Moira Boyle	Episode: "Broad Channel"
2010	Army Wives	Suzanne	Episode: "Mud, Sweat & Tears"
2012	Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23	Karen	2 episodes
2013	Deception	Samantha Bowers	11 episodes
2013	Missing at 17	Callie	Television film
2014–2015, 2019	Madam Secretary	Isabelle Barnes	9 episodes
2014	The Affair	Therapist	Episode: "7"
2014–2015	Red Band Society	Caroline Chota	2 episodes
2016	Castle	Dr. Rebecca Ellins	Episode: "Dead Again"
2016–2019	Speechless	Dr. Miller	22 episodes
2017	Homeland	Christine Lonas	3 episodes
2017–2023	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Rose Weissman	34 episodes
2019	Grey's Anatomy	Ashley Cordova	1 episode
2023	The Company You Keep	Claire Fox	Episode: "All In"
2024	We Were The Lucky Ones	Madame Lowbeer

External links

• Marin Hinkle at IMDb
• Marin Hinkle bio at CBS at the Wayback Machine (archive index)