Marin Hinkle (born March 23 1966 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is an actress. She graduated from Brown University and New York University (NYU).
She is best known for her role on ABC's hit cancelled show Once and Again as Judy Brooks from 1999-2002. She started her career on the soap Another World.
She has made several guest appearances on different shows such as Spin City, twice as different characters on Law & Order, Without a Trace, ER and House.
She currently costars on the CBS hit show Two and a Half Men with Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer as Alan's neurotic ex-wife, Judith. She has starred in at least fifty-one episodes of this show making her a regular surpassed only by the principals, Conchata Ferrell and Holland Taylor.
She has had several small roles in films such as I'm Not Rappaport, Frequency, The Next Big Thing, I Am Sam and Dark Blue. She has also performed on the stage, for example in 2005 as Miss Julie, opposite Reg Rogers, in the 1888 play of that name by August Strindberg (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York) (see New Yorker, 30 May 2005).
She has been married to Randall Sommer since 1998.
Marin's parents met while serving in the Peace Corps. She was born in Tanzania, but her family moved to Boston when she was four months old. Two years later, her brother Mark, was born. Her father, Rodney, is a retired school teacher. Her mother , Margaret, is a judge for the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Marlin wanted to be a ballerina and studied dance until age 16 when an ankle injury ended her dancing. While concerned about her decision to pursue acting, her parents nonetheless urged her to follow her dreams. They just encouraged her to get a Masters degree so she could at least fall back on teaching. She graduated from Brown University and then transferred to New York University, where she says she was pretty terrible in her acting classes. In 1992, she met her husband, Randall, a New York theater director. After her success, they both moved to a Hollywood home that they have leased after they had a 9 month separation. Marin had her first successes performing in New York theater (Electra & The Tempest), then got some minor movie roles, and then guest roles on several tv shows before her co-starring role on "Once and Again".
