Biography

CYNTHIA HARRISON (director, producer, writer) is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer... and winner of the prestigious Cine Golden Eagle award for the History Channel special Fly Fast - the Cutting Edge. A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Harrison has a successful career producing and writing many TV documentaries. She co-created, executive produced, and wrote many episodes of the highly acclaimed History Channel series Dogfights. Among other documentary credits are, The Great Ships, The Royal Navy, Search and Rescue, Defending America - The National Guard and The Coast Guard. She executive produced and co-wrote Rogue Waves, a History Channel tie-in with director Wolfgang Petersen's feature film Poseidon.

Ms. Harrison made her directorial debut (which she also produced and co-wrote) with the award-winning short Silver Tsunami, which tracks the alarming coming health care crisis that affects us all. In addition to documentaries, Ms. Harrison has written multiple award-winning episodes of children's programming, ranging from hard action like Spider-Man, Tutenstein, and Mortal Combat - to lighter comedies such as Pocket Dragons and Horseland - and popular pre-school shows like Clifford the Big Red Dog. Her script for Todd World was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Prior to writing, producing, and directing -She had a successful career in front of the camera as model and actress.. She started modeling at 14, and continued to model and act while attending UC Berkeley and UCLA. She appeared in numerous magazines, such as Mademoiselle, Glamour and Harpers Bazaar... and fashion shows for designers like Valentino, Ralph Lauren and Gucci. She guest starred in Laverne and Shirley, co-starred in shows like Dallas, Murder She Wrote, and The Colony (TV movie starring John Ritter), played Dee Presley in the ABC miniseries Elvis and Me, and appeared with Dustin Hoffman in Outbreak (later working with director Wolfgang Petersen as Executive Producer and writer on Rogue Waves.)

Ms. Harrison is in post production on a feature film which she directed, produced and co-wrote on The Record Plant, Sausalito
- IMDb mini biography by: Cynthia Harrison

Sister of unit publicist Rob Harris.