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Melissa George

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Melissa George Biography
Birth name        : Melissa Suzanne George
Birth date          : 6 August 1976 (1976-08-06) (age 34)
Birth place        : Perth, Western Australia
Occupation       : Actress
Years active       1993–present
Spouse               Claudio Dabed (2000-present)
website             :  http://www.melissageorge.co.uk

Melissa Suzanne George (born 6 August 1976) is an Australian film and television actress who has worked in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. She is perhaps best known for her roles in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror and 30 Days of Night and as Angel Parrish on the Australian soap Home and Away.
Melissa  has a dual American/Australian citizenship as of 2008.

Career

George started modeling in her early teens, and in 1992 she was named Western Australia's Teenage Model of the Year. At the age of sixteen she met casting agent Liz Mullinar and won the role of Angel Parrish on the popular Australian soap Home and Away. George left Perth and moved to Sydney to start her acting career. After three years on the show, she decided to leave to seek other roles. Shortly afterwards, she was featured nude in Australian Playboy and in celebrity photo magazine Black + White. in December 2008

George made a health and fitness video, Mind, Body and Soul (1996), created a sleepwear line called "An Angel at My Bedside" and had a recurring role on the short-lived television series Roar (1997), opposite Heath Ledger, before leaving Australia to move to Los Angeles to try her luck in Hollywood. She scored small roles in several films, including Dark City, The Limey and Down with Love, as well as a major role in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. She also starred in several unaired TV pilots, such as Lost in Oz. She had a brief success in 2001 with the ABC drama-comedy Thieves, co-starring John Stamos. She also starred in the sixth season premiere of the WB series Charmed.
George achieved a significant breakthrough in 2003 when she landed the role of Lauren Reed on the ABC series Alias. Also that year, she became Rachel's nanny in the American sitcom Friends.
Her first starring role in a feature film was Kathy Lutz in the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror. The same year, she played Deanna Schine in the thriller Derailed, co-starring Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston. The next year, 2006, was a busy one for George, who filmed three new movies; the drama Music Within, opposite Ron Livingston, the thriller WΔZ, opposite Stellan Skarsgård, and the film adaptation of the graphic novel 30 Days of Night, directed by David Slade and co-starring Josh Hartnett. She also starred in the horror-thriller Turistas. George returned to television in 2008 in the HBO half-hour drama In Treatment, co-starring Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest.
In 2006, George was announced as the spokesperson for cosmetics company Napoleon Perdis, and the Australian jewelry company Linneys. She has also been appointed as an official ambassador for the 2007 52nd World Artistic Roller Skating Championships. In September 2008, it was announced that she was joining the cast of Grey's Anatomy for eleven episodes as Sadie Harris, a bisexual intern, but in January 2009, it was released that George was leaving the show due to a mutual agreement between her and the producers.
On November 9, 2009, it was announced that Melissa would guest star in at least two episodes of Fox's Lie to Me playing Clara Martin. George also received the lead role in a mystery thriller by Chris Smith titled Triangle. The film, focused primarily on Melissa's character, opened to highly positive reviews. George also stars in the British thriller film A Lonely Place to Die, directed by Julian Gilbey.




Personal life

George lives in New York with her husband Chilean film director, Claudio Dabed, who is best known for his 2006 film Pretendiendo, and his daughter from a previous relationship, Martina (born 1995). She and Dabed met in Bali in 1998 and married on 22 September 2000. She became a naturalised American citizen in 2008. She now has dual Australian/US citizenship.
George during an Australian appearance in 2008
George climbed Ben Nevis for the role of A Lonely Place to Die. In an interview with The Sun, she stated, "It was tough because it's a pretty dangerous location, and it wasn't fit for a large crew, but we did it, we made it...I was climbing with Di Gilbert who has climbed Everest many times so that was incredible. And when you get up there, it's just a huge sense of achievement."

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