Marin Hinkle aka Marin biography

Real biography: Marin Hinkle (born March 23, 1966 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is an actress. Marin's parents met while serving in the Peace Corps. She was born in Tanzania, but her family moved to Boston when she was four months old. She graduated from Brown University and New York University (NYU).

She is best known for her role on ABC's hit canceled show Once and Again as Judy Brooks from 1999-2002. She started her career on the soap Another World. She has made several guest appearances on different shows such as Spin City, twice as different characters on Law & Order, Without a Trace, ER and House.

She currently costars on the CBS hit show Two and a Half Men with Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer as Alan's neurotic ex-wife, Judith. She has starred in at least fifty-four episodes of this show making her a regular surpassed only by the principals, Conchata Ferrell and Holland Taylor.

She has had several small roles in films such as I'm Not Rappaport (1996), Frequency (2000), The Next Big Thing (2001), I Am Sam (2001), Dark Blue (2002), Friends with Money (2006), and Turn the River (2007). She has also performed on the stage, for example in 2005 as Miss Julie, opposite Reg Rogers, in the 1888 play of that name by August Strindberg (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York) (see New Yorker, 30 May 2005).

She has been married to Randall Sommer since 1998.