Carolyn McCormick (born September 19, 1959 in Midland, Texas) is an American actress. She graduated from Williams College in 1981 with a B.A. in theatre. She also holds a M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She has worked in television, movies, theatre and voice acting. Her "break" into television was on Spenser: For Hire in the 1980s. The role she would become best known for was as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet on Law & Order. She had earlier appeared as the holodeck simulation "Minuet" during the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and later as Minuet Riker (Will Riker's wife) in a fantasy-alternate universe during a third-season episode of that series.
She appeared at the Cherry Hill Theatre in New York in "Eve-olution" with The Cosby Show star Sabrina Le Beauf.
Her father owned an oil drilling company in the 1970s, with an office in Houston, Texas.
Graduated first in her high school class in Houston, Texas and with honors from Williams College.
She has done fifteen plays, two movies, and two television series with her actor husband, Byron Jennings.
