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Melissa McBride
Melissa Suzanne McBride, born 1965 in Lexington, Kentucky, is an American actress and former casting director known for Carol Peletier on The Walking Dead and its Daryl Dixon spin-off, a two-time Saturn Award winner.
Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy, American actress and comedian (born 1970, Plainfield, Illinois), Sookie St. James on Gilmore Girls, star of Bridesmaids, The Heat, and Spy; two Oscar nominations, Emmy winner for Mike & Molly and SNL.
Melissa Newman
Melissa Newman refers to two American actresses often confused with each other: Lissy Newman (born 1961), daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and a separate actress known for Robotech and The Undefeated.
Melissa O'Neil
Melissa O'Neil (Melissa Crystal O'Neil), Canadian actress and singer born 1988 in Calgary; won Canadian Idol season 3 in 2005 as youngest and first female winner, then starred as Two/Portia Lin in Dark Matter and Lucy Chen on The Rookie.
Melissa Peterman
Melissa Margaret Peterman, American actress, comedian, and TV host born 1971 in Minneapolis; Barbra Jean on Reba, Bonnie Wheeler on Baby Daddy, Gabby on NBC's Happy's Place, host of Person Place or Thing.
Melissa Rauch
Melissa Ivy Rauch (born 1980, Marlboro, New Jersey) is an American actress and comedian, Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory (209 episodes), star and EP of NBC's Night Court revival, and co-writer-star of The Bronze.
Melissa Reeves
Melissa Reeves (Melissa Brennan), American actress born 1967 in Eatontown, New Jersey; played Jade Perkins on Santa Barbara and, since 1985, Jennifer Horton on Days of our Lives, winning four Soap Opera Digest Awards; married to Scott Reeves.
Melissa Roxburgh
Melissa Roxburgh (born 1992, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress known as Michaela Stone on Manifest (2018–2023) and Bex Henderson on NBC's The Hunting Party, with early roles in Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Star Trek Beyond.
Melissa Sagemiller
Melissa Sagemiller (born 1974, Washington, D.C.) is an American actress known for Get Over It, Soul Survivors, Sleeper Cell's Gayle Bishop, and A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke on Law & Order: SVU; active 1999–2014, married to Alex Nesic.
Melissa Sue Anderson
Melissa Sue Anderson is an American actress born 1962 in Berkeley, California, best known as Mary Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie (1974–1981), a 1978 Emmy nominee, 1980 Daytime Emmy winner, and memoirist of The Way I See It.
Melissa Villaseñor
Melissa Villaseñor (born 1987, Whittier, California) is an American stand-up comedian, impressionist, and voice actress, the first Latina cast member of Saturday Night Live (2016–2022), known for impressions of Dolly Parton, Lady Gaga, and Owen Wilson.
Melody Anderson
Melody Anderson, born 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta, is a Canadian actress and social worker, best known as Dale Arden in Flash Gordon (1980); also Dead & Buried, Firewalker; retired mid-1990s to become an LCSW trauma and addiction counselor.
Melody Hurd
Melody Hurd (born 2011, Prince George's County, Maryland) is an American child actress known for Gracie Emory in Them, Maddy Logelin in Fatherhood, and Janelle Cross in Cross; 2025 NAACP Image Award nominee.
Melody Patterson
Melody Patterson (1949-2015) was an American actress best known as Wrangler Jane Angelica Thrift on ABC's F Troop (1965-1967), cast at about 16 after lying about her age; also known for Hawaii Five-O appearances and marriage to James MacArthur.
Melonie Diaz
Melonie Diaz, American actress born 1984 in New York City, indie-film lead in Raising Victor Vargas and Fruitvale Station, two Spirit Award nominations, and star of Mel Vera on Charmed (2018–2022).
Melora Hardin
Melora Hardin (born 1967, Houston) is an American actress, singer, and director known as Jan Levinson on The Office and Trudy Monk on Monk, with an Emmy nomination for Transparent, Broadway roles in Chicago and McNeal, three albums, and collage art brand Storyboards.
Melora Walters
Melora Walters, born 1960 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is an American actress, director, and screenwriter known for Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Big Love (Wanda Henrickson), PEN15 (Kathy Kone), and directing Waterlily Jaguar and Drowning.
Melvin Gregg
Melvin Gregg (born 1988, Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American actor and producer who rose from Vine comedy fame to roles in American Vandal, High Flying Bird, Snowfall's Manboy, and Peacock's The Paper.
Melvin Williams (actor)
Melvin Douglas Williams, known as Little Melvin (1941–2015), was a former West Baltimore drug figure who played the Deacon in later seasons of HBO's The Wire and is said to have inspired Avon Barksdale; he died in Baltimore in 2015.
Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, 1901-1981), American Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning actor from Macon, Georgia; starred with Garbo in Ninotchka and won supporting-actor Oscars for Hud and Being There.
Melvyn Hayes
Melvyn Hayes (né Hyams, born 11 January 1935) is an English actor best known as cross-dressing Gunner 'Gloria' Beaumont in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981), and for Cliff Richard musicals, voice roles in SuperTed, and pantomime dames.
Mena Massoud
Mena Massoud, Egyptian-Canadian actor born in Cairo and raised in Markham, Ontario; star of Disney's 2019 live-action Aladdin ($1 billion box office), also Jack Ryan, The Royal Treatment, Press Play Productions co-founder.
Mena Suvari
Mena Suvari (born 1979, Newport, Rhode Island) is an American actress and model known for American Pie (1999) and American Beauty (1999), BAFTA- and SAG-nominated, Emmy-nominated for RZR, memoirist of The Great Peace.
Mercedes Mason
Mercedes Mason (Mercedes Masohn), born 1982 in Linköping, Sweden, is a Swedish-American actress and former model known for Fear the Walking Dead, The Rookie, 666 Park Avenue, and Quarantine 2: Terminal, later writing and directing shorts.
Mercedes McCambridge
Mercedes McCambridge (Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge, 1916–2004), American radio, film, and stage actress; won the 1949 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for All the King's Men and voiced the demon Pazuzu in The Exorcist.
Mercedes McNab
Mercedes Alicia McNab, Canadian-born retired actress (born 1980, Vancouver) known as Harmony Kendall on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, the Girl Scout in The Addams Family, and Misty in Hatchet.
Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes Ruehl, born 1948 in Queens, New York, is an American stage, film, and television actress who won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Fisher King and the Tony Award for Lost in Yonkers.
Meredith Baxter
Meredith Baxter, also billed as Meredith Baxter-Birney, American actress born 1947, in South Pasadena, California; starred in Bridget Loves Bernie, Family, and Family Ties as Elyse Keaton, became a TV-movie fixture, came out in 2009, and wrote the memoir Untied.
Meredith Eaton
Meredith Eaton (Meredith Hope Eaton-Gilden), born 1974 in Long Island, New York, is an American actress known for Bethany Horowitz on Boston Legal, Carol Wilson on NCIS, and Matty Webber on MacGyver (2016–2021), after a debut in Unconditional Love (2002).
Meredith Garretson
Meredith Garretson (born 1983) is an American actress known for Kate Hawthorne on Resident Alien (2021–2025), Ali MacGraw in The Offer, the film Friendship, and co-founding Society Theatre Company.