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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.
Meng'er Zhang (张梦儿)
Meng'er Zhang (张梦儿), Chinese actress born 1987 in Nanjing, stage-trained, who debuted on film as Xialing in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and later played Milva in The Witcher; distinct from other people named Zhang Meng.
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.
Mercy Johnson
Mercy Johnson Okojie, born 1984 in Lagos, is a Nigerian Nollywood actress, producer, and director who debuted in The Maid (2004), starred in over 150 films, won the 2013 AMVCA Best Actress award, and serves as a Kogi State governor's aide.
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.
Meredith Hagner
Meredith Hagner (Meredith Kathleen Hagner), American actress born 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; known for Portia Davenport on Search Party (2016–2022), a Daytime Emmy-nominated soap debut on As the World Turns, and films Palm Springs and Vacation Friends.
Meredith MacRae
Meredith MacRae (1944–2000), American actress, singer, and talk show host, daughter of Gordon and Sheila MacRae; played Sally on My Three Sons and Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction, later Emmy-winning co-host of Mid-Morning L.A.
Meredith Marks
Meredith Marks, also known as Meredith Rosenberg, is an American television personality and jewelry designer, an original cast member of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
Meredith Monroe
Meredith Monroe, American actress (birth year reported as 1968 or 1969), known as Andie McPhee on Dawson's Creek, Haley Hotchner on Criminal Minds, and Carolyn Standall on 13 Reasons Why.
Meredith Salenger
Meredith Dawn Salenger (born 1970, Malibu) is an American actress known for The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), Lake Placid, and voicing Barriss Offee in Star Wars; Harvard psychology graduate, mediator, wife of Patton Oswalt.
Merin Philip
Merin Philip (Merin Mary Philip, മെറിന് ഫിലിപ്പ്), Indian actress in Malayalam cinema; debut Poomaram (2018), lead in Happy Sardar (2019), known for Vaathil, Anchakkallakokkan, Sookshmadarshini; Santosham Best Supporting Actress 2023.
Merle Dandridge
Merle Dandridge (born 1975, Okinawa, Japan) is an American actress and singer known as Grace Greenleaf in Greenleaf, Alyx Vance in Half-Life 2, and Marlene in The Last of Us games and the HBO series, with Broadway roles in Aida, Tarzan, Spamalot, and Once on This Island.
Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon, born Estelle Merle Thompson, was a British and Hollywood film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, nominated for an Academy Award for The Dark Angel (1935).