Career Highlights: Rails & Ties, Two and a Half Men: Season 04, Two and a Half Men: Season 01
First Major Screen Credit: Chocolate For Breakfast (1999)
Biography
Tanzania native Marin Hinkle is best known for her role as bookstore proprieter Judy Brooks on ABC's Once and Again, though her breakthrough performance was on long-running soap opera Another World. After the cancellation of Once and Again in 2002, Hinkle went on to find success in the sitcom world, co-starring with Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer on CBS' popular Two and a Half Men, and appeared on a variety of prime-time dramas including ER, House, and Law & Order. Though Hinkle is primarily a television actress, she has had small roles in several films; her credits include Frequency, I Am Sam, The Next Big Thing, and Rails & Ties. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
Marin Elizabeth Hinkle (born March 23, 1966) is an American actress, perhaps best known for playing the role of Judith Melnick, Alan Harper's ex-wife on the hit series Two and a Half Men.
Hinkle was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the daughter of Margaret R. Hinkle, a Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and Rodney Hinkle, a college dean and teacher.[1] She attended Brown University and New York University (NYU).
She started her career on the soap Another World. She also portrayed Judy Brooks on ABC's cancelled show Once and Again from 1999-2002.