Carolyn McCormick Movies and Career Information

Carolyn Inez McCormick (born September 19, 1959) is an American actress. McCormick was born in Midland, Texas to a father who owned an oil drilling company. She graduated first in her class from The Kinkaid School, Houston, Texas, in 1977, and with honors from Williams College in 1981 with a B.F.A.. She also holds a M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She has worked in television, movies, theatre and voice acting. Her "break" into television was on Spenser: For Hire in the 1980s. She had appeared as the holodeck simulation Minuet in "11001001", a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and later as Minuet Riker (Will Riker's wife) in a fantasy-alternate universe during the fourth season episode "Future Imperfect". The role she would become best known for was on NBC network as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet on Law & Order during 1991 to 1997. In 1997, she played the unhappy wife of a police psychiatrist played by Robert Pastorelli in the short-lived Americanized version of the British series Cracker. She appeared at the Cherry Hill Theatre in New York in "Eve-olution" with The Cosby Show star Sabrina Le Beauf. She is married to Byron Jennings,