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name: "Tracy Pollan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tracy-pollan"
fi1m_id: "tracy-pollan"
imdb_id: "nm0001630"
tmdb_id: 177443
wikidata_id: "Q275958"
roles: []
born: "22 June 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:20:01.462046+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tracy Pollan

## Identity

Tracy Pollan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tracy-pollan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tracy-pollan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001630
- **TMDB ID:** 177443
- **Wikidata ID:** Q275958
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Pollan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275958, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/177443

Actor. Born 22 June 1960 in Long Island, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 22 June 1960, Long Island, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Tracy Jo Pollan
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Pollan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275958, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/177443

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie*](https://film.one/film/still-a-michael-j-fox-movie.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Tracy Pollan is an American actress. She is known for playing Ellen Reed on the NBC sitcom *Family Ties* (1985–1987) and Harper Anderson on the crime drama series *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (2000), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Pollan married actor and activist Michael J. Fox in 1988. In film, she has appeared in *Baby It's You* (1983), *Promised Land* (1987), *Bright Lights, Big City* (1988) and *A Stranger Among Us* (1992). Her other television credits include episodes of *Spin City* (1997–1998) and the television films *First to Die* (2003), *Natalee Holloway* (2009) and *Justice for Natalee Holloway* (2011). She appeared as herself in the documentary *STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie* (2023).

She studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio and the Lee Strasberg Institute.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie* (2023), Fi1m 80, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/still-a-michael-j-fox-movie.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story* (2025), as Joanne Quinn
- *Inventing Anna* (2022), series, as Sherry Reed
- *Good Grief* (2021), as Dianne
- *The Michael J. Fox Show* (2013), series, as Kelly
- *Justice for Natalee Holloway* (2011), as Beth Holloway
- *Natalee Holloway* (2009), as Beth Holloway-Twitty
- *Medium* (2005), series, as Caitlyn Lynch
- *First to Die* (2003), as Lindsay Boxer
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Patricia Caruso
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Harper Anderson
- *Spin City* (1996), series, as Renee
- *E! True Hollywood Story* (1996), series, Actor
- *Children of the Dark* (1994), as Kim Harrison
- *Dying to Love You* (1993), as Lisa Ann Rohn
- *A Stranger Among Us* (1992), as Mara
- *Fine Things* (1990), as Liz O'Reilly
- *The Kennedys of Massachusetts* (1990), series, as Kathleen Kennedy
- *Bright Lights, Big City* (1988), as Vicky
- *Promised Land* (1988), as Mary Daley
- *A Special Friendship* (1987), as Elizabeth Van Lew
- *The Abduction of Kari Swenson* (1987), as Kari Swenson
- *The Tender Age* (1986), as Nicki Davis
- *The Baron and the Kid* (1984), as Mary Beth Phillips
- *A Good Sport* (1984), as Suzanne
- *Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer* (1983), as Eileen Grafton
- *Sessions* (1983), as Leslie
- *Baby It's You* (1983), as Leslie, College Girl
- *For Lovers Only* (1982), Actor
- *Family Ties* (1982), series, as Ellen Reed
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, as Nicki Davis

## Gallery

- ![Tracy Pollan](https://film.one/media/person/4487629/gallery-9311c45ec2c8.jpg) Tracy Pollan — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Tracy_Pollan_87.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![1988 Emmy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. Scan](https://film.one/media/person/4487629/gallery-0e4d0c23caf1.jpg) 1988 Emmy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. Scan — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Michael_J._Fox%2C_Tracy_Pollan_%282092447984%29.jpg/1280px-Michael_J._Fox%2C_Tracy_Pollan_%282092447984%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![1988 Emmy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. Scan](https://film.one/media/person/4487629/gallery-ec0c8958ff98.jpg) 1988 Emmy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. Scan — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Michael_J._Fox_%282091609505%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![1988 Emmy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. Scan](https://film.one/media/person/4487629/gallery-1d962f636b26.jpg) 1988 Emmy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. Scan — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Michael_J._Fox_%282092393394%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tracy Pollan](https://film.one/media/person/4487629/gallery-fea612ad5885.jpg) Tracy Pollan — Image via TMDB
- ![Tracy Pollan](https://film.one/media/person/4487629/gallery-35889ae1dfd8.jpg) Tracy Pollan — Image via TMDB
- ![Photo taken at the 40th Emmy Awards, August 1988 - Permission granted to copy, publish or post but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can](https://film.one/media/person/4487629/gallery-ee1e17abcfd6.jpg) Photo taken at the 40th Emmy Awards, August 1988 - Permission granted to copy, publish or post but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Michael_J._Fox_%28210965406%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actor Michael J Fox and Tracy Pollan at the 40th Emmy Awards (1988)](https://film.one/media/person/4487629/gallery-442de0e78c71.jpg) Actor Michael J Fox and Tracy Pollan at the 40th Emmy Awards (1988) — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Michael_J_Fox.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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