Emmy Award-winning actress and social activist Camryn Manheim has never played by the rules. Her fierce determination to defy the beauty myth and casting stereotypes has resulted in one of today’s most remarkable Hollywood success stories.
Manheim’s groundbreaking Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning role on The Practice changed the opportunities in television for plus-size actresses. In her New York Times bestseller, Wake Up I’m Fat!, she detailed her life with candor and humor.
In 2006 Manheim joined the series Ghost Whisperer starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Her recent credits include An Unfinished Life, Slipstream, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, Two and a Half Men, Happiness and the TV movie, Elvis.
Manheim’s social activism has included working with the disabled, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood. She has been honored by the National Council of Jewish Women and the National Lawyers Guild and received an E! Fashion award from Joan Rivers, which she claims was the hardest award to get.
Manheim was named one of the “Most Intriguing People” by People Magazine and “Woman of the Year” by Glamour. Always passionate, with a dash of irreverence, she encourages her audience to be brave and to understand that “life is not a dress rehearsal.”
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