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Short Biography of Melanie Mayron  
Melanie Joy Mayron, daughter of Norma and David Mayron,
was born on October 20, 1952 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA. Her grandma came from Russia.
She graduated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Upon graduation she toured the country in the national tour of "Godspell". Three years later (1974) she had her first film debut in Paul Mazursky's "Harry and Tonto", in which she played a teenage hitchhiker. After that she appeared subsequently in several low-buged films while also maintaining a stage career. Melanie occasionaly was a guest star in TV series (e.g. "Rhoda", 1974-78) in this time. Her "film break through" was in 1978 in Claudia Weill's film "Girlfriends", playing a photographer, who seems to loose her best friend. And it is said, that the circumstances of the role Melanie played in this film, were reflecting her own life in many ways. For this role Melanie won her first award for best actress at the "Locano Film Festival" in 1979. Her next success as an actress was "Missing", (1982) a film about the political situation in Chile after the fall of Salvador Alliende 1973. In 1987 Melanie started her TV career in the popular dramatic series "Thirtysomething" in which she played the little bit neurotic and confused photographer "Melissa Steadman". In this series production Melanie made her debut as TV director and won 1989 an "Emmy" for "Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series" playing "Melissa" after she was nominated twice the two years before. 
In this time Melanie became a co-writer and producer for top films
together with screen-writer Catlin Adams. Her first co-production
"Sticky Fingers", in which she also had a role
as an actress, was unfortunately a flop.
But in the same year this team produced the short film "Little
Shiny Shoes", which won an award.
Her first own TV movie directorial debut was "The Baby Sitters Club" in 1995. A TV remake of "Freaky Friday" followed in the same year. And Melanie's career went on: She started a cinema director's career with Bernd Eichinger's comedy "Slap her, she's french" in 2001, which was an American-German co-production. One of Melanie's last appearance as an actress was in the science fiction film "Clockstoppers", directed by "Star Trek - William Riker" - Jonathan Frakes in 2002. Although Melanie has never married, she has a daughter and a son: Olivia and Miles. Rumors say that they are twins, others say Miles is adopted. Together with her dad she developed baby neat stuff called Good Baby, which was not tested on animals but on her own babies. |
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