McCormick has worked in television, movies, theatre, and voice acting. Her breakthrough role was in
Enemy Mine, directed by
Wolfgang Petersen with
Dennis Quaid. Her other film credits include
Woody Allen's
Whatever Works,
You Know My Name with
Sam Elliott, and
A Simple Twist of Fate with
Steve Martin. She played Hannah's Mom in ''Barney's Night Before Christmas''. Her first notable television credit was as district attorney Rita Fiori in
Spenser: For Hire, in 1986–1987. She appeared as the
holodeck simulation
Minuet in "
11001001", a first-season episode of
Star Trek: The Next Generation, and later as Minuet (
William Riker's holodeck love interest) in a fantasy-alternate universe during the fourth-season episode "
Future Imperfect". McCormick starred as
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, a consulting psychologist for the prosecution on
Law & Order. She appeared in approximately half of the episodes of the NBC series between 1994 and 2006. In 1997, McCormick acted as the unhappy wife of a police psychiatrist, played by
Robert Pastorelli, in the short-lived
Americanized version of the British series
Cracker. She has been a guest star on series including
Madam Secretary,
Elementary,
Blue Bloods,
Judging Amy,
The Practice,
Body of Proof,
Cold Case,
Homicide: Life on the Street, LA Law, and
Boston Blue. McCormick also performs on stage. She appeared at the
Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre in
Eve-olution with
The Cosby Show star
Sabrina Le Beauf in 2004. She has also appeared in
Dinner with Friends,
Oedipus,
Ancestral Voices,
The Donahue Sisters, ''Laureen's Whereabouts
and In Perpetuity''. She worked with Thomas Kail at The Flea Theatre in
A. R. Gurney's
Family Furniture (2013). In 2015, she appeared in
Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike at the PaperMill Playhouse and
What I Did Last Summer at the Signature 2015. She appeared in the
Broadway productions of
The Dinner Party in 2001 as Mariette Levieux,
Private Lives (standby) in 2002, and in
Equus in 2008 as Dora Strang. In 2012, McCormick appeared opposite her husband Byron Jennings in the Off-Broadway production of
Ten Chimneys. She appeared Off-Broadway in
Will Eno's play
The Open House in 2014 (Lucille Lortel nomination, Drama Desk Award). She has narrated both audio books, including the
Hunger Games series, and
Ken Burns documentaries. ==Filmography==