- Born
- Birth nameMelora Diane Hardin
- Height1.70 m
- Melora Hardin is an American actress, singer and director from Houston, Texas who is known for playing Jan Levinson from The Office and Trudy Monk from Monk. She also acted in The Rocketeer, 27 Dresses, 17 Again, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Transparent, The Bold Type and The Hot Chick. She had two daughters with Gildart Jackson, a British actor.- IMDb mini biography by: Christian Frates
- SpouseGildart Jackson(June 4, 1997 - present) (2 children)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesShawn Hardin(Sibling)Kara Meyers(Sibling)Cleo Elizabeth Hardin(Niece or Nephew)
- Was cast as "Jennifer Parker" in Retour vers le futur (1985) after actress Claudia Wells dropped out of the film during preproduction. Wells had recently filmed a television pilot (Off the Rack (1984)) that had been picked up by ABC for a six-episode run and the shooting schedules would have conflicted. Melora never shot a single frame of the movie, however; she was let go when Eric Stoltz was replaced by Michael J. Fox as the original Marty McFly because she was considered too tall to be his girlfriend. Wells was then brought back as Marty's girlfriend when her series didn't get picked up by ABC for a full season.
- Appeared in a PSA for Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE).
- Daughter of Jerry Hardin and Diane Hardin.
- Younger sister of Shawn Hardin.
- Mother, with husband Gildart Jackson, of daughters Rory Jackson and Piper Quiney Jackson.
- I do believe everyone on this earth is an artist - some people more than others. But I do believe we are all artists in a certain way. We all have unique abilities. There are people who are meant to make it their life and that is a different kind of person who would choose to be on that path.
- This is what I have, this is my package, I just happen to be wrapped with this color paper and this color of bow: my looks. It's nice that it's pleasing to a lot of people, and that I don't have to struggle with that in this lifetime. But we're all put on earth with some kind of package, and we just have to do with it whatever we do.
- I had been riding since I was about five.
- A week before the audition of Thunder (1977), I told my Mom that I wanted to do a TV series with a horse. It was a wish come true. I loved horses.
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