Ask AP: Angie Harmon

Celebrities, Celebrity Q&A, People
on September 23, 2010

Rizzoli & Isles is the second TV series that Angie Harmon has starred in—the first was Women’s Murder Club—based on a series of mystery novels. Is she a big fan of murder mysteries?
Maria Lopez, Athens, Ga.

Not really. Harmon, 38, hadn’t read Tess Gerritsen’s books until she took the role of Detective Jane Rizzoli opposite Sasha Alexander’s forensic pathologist, Maura Isles, on the TNT police drama. She says she loves to laugh, but she also likes the darker side of life. “I like things to be really, really funny or really, really dramatic, and those kinds of books are certainly the ones that grab me,” she says. She’s now reading the books to be better equipped for her TV character.