Melissa George

Melissa George
George in 2009
Born
Melissa Suzanne George

(1976-08-06) 6 August 1976 (age 47)
Perth, Australia
Citizenship
  • Australia
  • United States (from 2008)
OccupationActress
Years active1993–present
Spouse
Claudio Dabed
(m. 2000; div. 2011)
PartnerJean-David Blanc (2011–2016)
Children3

Melissa Suzanne George (born 6 August 1976)[1] is an Australian and American actress. She began her career playing Angel Parrish in the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1993–1996). After moving to the United States, George made her feature film debut with a supporting role in the neo-noir science fiction Dark City (1998). She made the transition to leading roles when she appeared in the supernatural horror film The Amityville Horror (2005), gaining further recognition for the crime thriller film Derailed (2005), and the horror films 30 Days of Night (2007) and Triangle (2009).

Outside film, George received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the HBO drama series In Treatment (2008). She won the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress for her role in the Australian miniseries The Slap (2011), which she reprised in the 2015 American adaptation.

  1. ^ "Melissa George- Biography". Yahoo! Movies. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2013.