Michelle Hurd (born December 21, 1966) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She is married to actor Garret Dillahunt.

Michelle Hurd is the daughter of actor Hugh L. Hurd. She graduated from St. Anne's School in 1984 and Boston University in 1988, and also studied at the Alvin Ailey School. After graduating from college, she studied at the National Theatre of Great Britain.

Among her Broadway credits is the failed 1996 production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's "Getting Away with Murder." Other stage work includes "Othello," "A.M.L.," "Hamlet," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and "Looking for Pony" at Manhattan Theater Source with her sister Adrienne Hurd. She met her husband, Garret Dillahunt, at a production of "900 Oneonta" at the Circle Repertory Theater Company. She has received several awards, including the Robbie Award and the California Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for the premiere of Richard Greenberg's play "The Violet Hour."

She also appeared in several films, including "Random Hearts," "Personals," and as the comic book superhero B.B. DaCosta/Fire in the unaired television pilot "Justice League of America" (1997). After working in television roles such as "The Cosby Mysteries," "New York Undercover," and "The Practice," she appeared in a 1997 episode of "Law & Order." Her performance as a corrupt FBI informant caught the attention of "Law & Order" producer Dick Wolf, who two years later cast her in the spin-off "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" as Detective Monique Jeffries. She appeared alongside Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay in the first season before leaving the series in 2000, but she appeared in the first, seventh, and sixteenth episodes of the second season, her last appearance being in March 2001. In 2001 she appeared in the original Showtime series "Leap Years," where her character was the on-again, off-again love interest of the bisexual character played by her real-life husband.