Margo Harshman
Margo Harshman (born March 4, 1986) is an American actress. She is known for playing Tawny Dean on Even Stevens, Alex Jensen on The Big Bang Theory, and Delilah Fielding-McGee on NCIS.
Also recorded as Margo Cathleen Harshman
Margo Harshman
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- Full name
- Margo Cathleen Harshman.
- Born
- 1986. · San Diego.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- actress.
- Education
- Foothill High School.
- Languages
- English.
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Margo Harshman (born March 4, 1986) is an American actress. She is known for playing Tawny Dean on Even Stevens, Alex Jensen on The Big Bang Theory, and Delilah Fielding-McGee on NCIS.
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Margo Harshman was an actress; nationality: United States. Margo Harshman was born in 1986, in San Diego. Training included Foothill High School. The language is English. Also known as Margo Cathleen Harshman.
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Early life and family
Early life and family
Margo Harshman was born March 4, 1986, in San Diego, California, to David James Harshman and Janelle Louise Sorenson, who died in 2014 from breast cancer. She has two older sisters and an older brother.
Career
Career
Harshman's grandmother entered her in a beauty pageant at the age of two. In 2000, she was cast in the Disney Channel sitcom Even Stevens as Tawny Dean, the female best friend of series lead Louis. Harshman appeared in 47 episodes in the show's three-year run and reprised the role for the 2003 movie. Beginning in 2012, she appeared in The Big Bang Theory as Alex Jensen, the assistant of Sheldon Cooper, and the following year debuted in the long-running series NCIS as Delilah Fielding, the wheelchair user wife of Timothy McGee who works as an intelligence analyst at the US Department of Defense. Harshman starred on the short-lived TV shows Run of the House and Center of the Universe. Her film appearances include Sorority Row, College Road Trip and Fired Up!
Personal life
Personal life
Harshman dated her Even Stevens co-star Shia LaBeouf while they were working on the show together. She married Austin Hooks in 2017, but the couple filed for divorce on November 29, 2018, after an eight-week separation.
Awards and nominations
In 2005, Harshman was nominated for two awards at the Young Artist Awards, one for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special by a Supporting Young Actress for The Even Stevens Movie (2004) (TV) and the other for Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) by a Supporting Young Actress for Even Stevens (2001). In 2009, Harshman won the ShoWest "Female Stars of Tomorrow" award at the ShoWest Convention along with fellow Sorority Row cast members Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung and Audrina Patridge.
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- 30.Blackwood, Emily. Where Is the 'Even Stevens' Cast Now? All About Their Lives 25 Years After the Show's Premiere — and Why Some Left Hollywood. People.
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