Michelle Hurd

Michelle Hurd (born December 21, 1966) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Monique Jeffries in the first and second season of the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.\n', ' Michelle Hurd is the daughter of actor Hugh L. Hurd. Her sister is actress and dancer, Adrienne Hurd. She graduated from Saint Ann\'s School in 1984 and Boston University in 1988, and studied with the Alvin Ailey School. After her graduation from college, she studied at London\'s National Theatre.\n', ' One of Hurd\'s early Off Broadway performances was in the play The Constant Couple in 1990. A review in The Nation predicted that this would be a stepping stone to Broadway roles. Hurd made her Broadway debut in the 1996 Stephen Sondheim–George Furth play Getting Away with Murder. Her other theatre credits include Othello, A.M.L., Hamlet and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hurd acted in \'Looking for the Pony for Manhattan Theater Source with her sister Adrienne and in 900 Oneonta for Circle Repertory Company with Garret Dillahunt who would become her husband. She won the Robbie Award and the California Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for the premiere of Richard Greenberg\'s The Violet Hour.\n', '