- Born
- Birth nameMelissa Joan Hart
- Nicknames
- Mel
- Halfpint
- Sa
- MellyJHart
- Height1.57 m
- Melissa grew up in Sayville, New York. Her acting career started at the age of four, when she did a commercial for a bathtub toy called Splashy. Her mother, Paula Hart, has been her agent from the beginning. Melissa is the oldest of eight children, some from her mother's second marriage. Six sisters, Trisha Hart, Elizabeth Hart, Emily Hart, Alexandra Hart-Gilliams, Samantha Hart, and Mackenzie Lee Hart, who is the only sibling who never appeared on Melissa's TV series, Sabrina, l'apprentie sorcière (1996). Her brother is Brian Hart.
Melissa performed in two plays as the youngest member of New York's Circle Repertory Lab Company: "Beside Herself" in 1989 (starring Lois Smith and William Hurt) and "Imagining Brad" in 1990. She was also in the National Actors Theater production of "The Crucible" on Broadway with Martin Sheen (as understudy of three of the children in the play). Melissa cites Shirley Temple and Audrey Hepburn as early acting inspirations and still collects memorabilia of the former. For the past few years, she has been juggling acting and attending New York University. She's now living in Connecticut.- IMDb mini biography by: Donald Lancon <dcljr@stat.tamu.edu>
- SpouseMark Wilkerson(July 19, 2003 - present) (3 children)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesChristopher Savage(Niece or Nephew)Jonathan Savage(Niece or Nephew)Trisha Hart(Sibling)Elizabeth Hart(Sibling)Emily Hart(Sibling)Alexandra Hart-Gilliams(Half Sibling)Samantha Hart(Half Sibling)Brian Hart(Sibling)Mackenzie Lee Hart(Half Sibling)
- Catchphrase: "Woohoo!"
- Best known for her roles as Sabrina Spellman in Sabrina, l'apprentie sorcière (1996) and as Clarissa Darling in Clarissa Explains It All (1991).
- Blonde hair
- Was born without the teeth on either side of her two front teeth, a condition that was fixed in 1993.
- Her sister, Emily Hart, provides the voice for Sabrina in the Saturday morning cartoon Sabrina (1999), which was spun off from Melissa's hit show Sabrina, l'apprentie sorcière (1996). Melissa provides the voices for Aunts Hilda and Zelda Spellman.
- Has a lazy eyelid that causes her right eye not to open as wide as her left eye.
- She was offered the role of "Sidney Prescott" in the horror/thriller, Scream (1996), but turned it down.
- She has played the same character (Sabrina Spellman) on six different series: Sabrina, l'apprentie sorcière (1996), Clueless (1996), Incorrigible Cory (1993), You Wish (1997), Teen Angel (1997) and Robot Chicken (2005).
- [on appearing in Playboy magazine] If they could promise me it wasn't camera-between-my-knees kind of shots, I would do it. I would do topless. I think it's empowering. Though if my mother had a real big problem with it, I'd have to say no right now.
- [on her personality] I'm a pretty open person. Like, if I have good sex, then the next day I'm going to tell everyone I know about it.
- I feel like every time something bad has happened, I've come out of it because of my faith," Hart said. "It's for a purpose He has. It's His will be done.
- I was in the movie 'Crocodile Dundee', I was in the movie 'Aliens'. I was cut-out of both of them. You find that you have a lot of rejection and you learn young that you have to let it go and if you don't have the thick skin you aren't going to make it.
- Melissa & Joey (2010) - $25,000 per episode (2013-2014)
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