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Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur (; born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, photographer and actress.
Melissa Sagemiller
Melissa Sagemiller (born June 1, 1974) is an American television and film actress. She is known for her performances in films "Get Over It" (2001), "Soul Survivors" (2001), "Sorority Boys" (2002), "The Clearing" (2004), "The Guardian" (2006) and "Mr. Woodcock" (2007). Sagemiller also starred in television dramas "Sleeper Cell" (2005–06), and "Raising the Bar" (2008–09), and from 2010 to 2011 had the recurring role as A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke in the "".
Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón
Amalia González Caballero was born on 18 August 1898 in the San Jerónimo neighborhood of Santander Jiménez, located in the Jiménez Municipality of the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico to Vicente González Garcilazo and Doña María
Caballero Garza. She completed primary school in Padilla and then moved to Ciudad Victoria where she attended the Teacher's Normal School and graduated with teaching credentials. Her family moved to Mexico City and González continued her education at the School of Higher Studies and the National Conservatory of Music. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, later enrolled in the Escuela Superior to study English, and married the historian . She founded the Teatro de Masas and began publishing her writings with the release of "Cuando las hojas caen" in 1929.
Melissa Lawson
Melissa Ann Lawson (born April 10, 1976) is an American country music singer. On August 4, 2008, she was declared the winner of the television program "Nashville Star", a country music singing competition which aired on NBC. Signed to Warner Bros. Records Nashville, she released her debut single "What If It All Goes Right" that year, and charted on Hot Country Songs with it. Although Lawson's label released her before she debuted her first album, she is currently performing and released 2 EPs in 2010.
The Real World: New Orleans (2000 season)
Melissa Howard created a blog during her time on the show called Princess Melissa, and as of 2008, continues to maintain it. She went on to become an actress and comedian who has worked on "The Jamie Foxx Show", and starred in the Oxygen sketch comedy series "Girls Behaving Badly". She also appeared in the 2005 Bravo show "Battle of the Network Reality Stars". In 2007 she married Justin Beck, a guitarist for the group Glassjaw, with whom she bore a daughter, Shalom Mazie.
Melissa Naschenweng
Melissa Naschenweng (born July 11, 1990) is an Austrian singer and musician.
Melissa Mathison
Mathison was born on June 3, 1950, in Los Angeles, one of five siblings. Her father, Richard Randolph Mathison, was the Los Angeles bureau chief of "Newsweek". Her mother was Margaret Jean (née Kieffer) Mathison, a food writer and convenience-foods entrepreneur. After graduating from Providence High School in 1968, Mathison attended the University of California, Berkeley. Her family was friendly with Francis Ford Coppola, whose children were babysat by Mathison. Coppola offered her a job as his assistant on "The Godfather Part II", an opportunity for which she left her studies at UC Berkeley.
Melissa McMahon
Melissa Fay McMahon (born 15 May 1976) is an Australian politician. She has been the Labor member for Macalister in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2017. She is a member of the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee (PCCC) and the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee (LACSC) of the Queensland Parliament.
Melissa Harrington
Melissa Harrington (born July 9, 1982), also known by the stage names Melissa Lincoln and Melissa Midwest, is an American pornographic actress, businesswoman and web developer. She has appeared in magazines including "FHM", "Gallery", "Maxim", "Hustler", "Perfect 10", and "Playboy", and was once attributed as the ninth most searched-for name on the internet. Widespread interest in several legal troubles led to her being labelled a "pornographic cause célèbre" in mainstream media.
Melissa Auf der Maur
Recorded from 2001 to 2003  at various studios in the U.S. and Canada, Auf der Maur's debut studio album "Auf der Maur" was released in February 2004 on Capitol Records. Produced with Chris Goss, Auf der Maur financed the recording sessions herself as she was not signed to a record label at the time of recording and during post-production, her budget ran out and she was unable to mix the album. She accepted a recording contract from Capitol soon afterwards and released "Auf der Maur" to "generally favorable reviews", according to Metacritic. The album's supporting singles—"Followed the Waves", "Real a Lie" and "Taste You"—were moderate successes in the United Kingdom, charting in the Top 40 of the UK Single Charts. As of 2010, "Auf der Maur" sold 200,000 copies worldwide.
Melissa Caulfield
Melissa Caulfield (born 29 May 1988) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. Caulfield was drafted by Fremantle with their tenth selection and seventy-seventh overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in the thirty-two point loss to the at VU Whitten Oval in the opening round of the 2017 season. She played the first two matches of the year before missing the round three match against . She returned for the round four match against and played every match for the remainder of the year apart from the last round of the season, and finished with five matches.
Melissa Tan
Tan was born in Melaka on 13 July 1981. She is of Dutch, Portuguese and Peranakan descent. She graduated from Australia's Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a degree in Economics and Finance.
César Ferioli
Cèsar Ferioli Pelaez (born July 22, 1959) is a Spanish comic book artist, who is best known for his Mickey Mouse comics, which are inspired by stories from the 1970s and 1980s featuring Mickey Mouse as a savvy and insightful detective. Since 1989, Ferioli has worked for the Danish publisher Egmont.
One of his best-known works is the 2003 series Mythos Island, written by Pat and Carol McGreal and Per Erik Hedman.
Lisa Papademetriou
Papademetriou was born August 25, 1971 and grew up in Houston, Texas, attending West University Elementary School, Lanier Middle School, and Episcopal High School of Houston. She graduated from Vassar College in 1993. Her first book, Sixth Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me, was published in 2006 by Hyperion. She has written/adapted over thirty books for children and young adults. Her 2005 book, "M or F? : a novel" is in over 500 libraries according to WorldCat. She also wrote the "Accidentally" series (Accidentally Fabulous, Accidentally Famous, Accidentally Fooled, and Accidentally Friends), How to Be a Girly Girl in Just 10 Days, and Ice Dreams for Scholastic's line of Candy Apple books...
Melissa Minor-Brown
Melissa C. Minor-Brown (born April 19, 1984) is an American politician. She is a Democratic member of the Delaware House of Representatives, representing District 17. She was elected after running unopposed in 2018 to replace retiring Democrat Michael Mulrooney.
Melissa VanFleet
Melissa Ann VanFleet (born February 8, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her debut project "Ode To The Dark" was recorded with the team behind Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil's 2016 album "Delirium" and released to underground critical acclaim on October 13, 2018. She has garnered attention among the heavy metal music community for her piano cover version of American heavy metal band W.A.S.P.'s song "Sleeping (In The Fire)" on YouTube and acoustic 2015 LP "Metal Lullabies". She has toured internationally and appeared on the Full Metal Cruise II presented by Wacken. Her vocals have been compared to Adele, Alanis Morissette and Amy Lee.
Melissa (singer)
Melissa (; born 9 February 1982 as Myriam Shehab ()) is a Lebanese singer discovered by music producers Fady Bitar and Jean Saliba.
Auf der Maur (album)
Auf der Maur is the eponymous debut studio album by the Canadian alternative rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur, released on February 2, 2004 on Capitol Records. Following her career as a bassist for Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins, Auf der Maur recorded the album over the course of two years in various studios through the United States and Canada with producer Chris Goss. The songs featured on "Auf der Maur" were written over a ten-year period, from 1992 to 2002, throughout her time in Tinker, Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.
Melissa Morphew
Melissa Morphew (born July 31, 1963) is an American poet from Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.
Melissa Barbieri
Melissa Anne Barbieri (born 20 January 1980), and now known as Melissa Hudson, is an Australian international football goalkeeper who plays for Melbourne City in the W-League.
Nick Auf der Maur
Nick Auf der Maur (April 10, 1942 – April 7, 1998) was a journalist, politician and "man about town" boulevardier in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was also the father of rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur, through his marriage to Linda Gaboriau.
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau
She was born Mabel Martine Los in Pijnacker, the Netherlands. Her parents were Hendrik Cornelis "Henk" Los (27 April 1944 – 18 February 1978) and his wife Florence Malde Gijsberdina "Flos" Kooman (b. 1944) (the daughter of Anthonie Kooman (15 June 1915 – 8 November 1979) and his wife Antoinette Petronella van Woerkom). After Mabel's father died, when she was 9 years old, her mother married in 1984 Peter Wisse Smit (15 October 1939 – 11 November 2000), a Rabobank executive, and Mabel and her sister took their stepfather's surname. Princess Mabel has two younger sisters, Nicoline Los, later Nicoline Wisse Smit (b. 1970) and Eveline Wisse Smit (b. 1982). She grew up in Het Gooi in the central Netherlands.
Melissa Chiu
Born in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, in 1972, Chiu was educated in Sydney, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Western Sydney and then an MA (Arts Administration) at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. She later completed a PhD at the University of Western Sydney focusing on Chinese contemporary art in the diaspora.
Muriel Ostriche
Muriel Ostriche (24 May 1896, New York City - 3 May 1989, St Petersburg, Florida) was an American silent film actress. She was also the face of Moxie.
She was signed by the Thanhouser Company based in New Rochelle, New York and starred in 134 films in her career.
Maura McNiel
Maura McNiel was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 11, 1921 where she learned the importance of individual rights from the integration of Minneapolis area schools. In 1941, McNiel attended University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Moving to the Dallas area in the early 1950s, she became active within Dallas political and feminist groups, and was instrumental in the founding of the Women's Center of Dallas (now closed).
Melissa Archer
Archer first appeared as "bad girl" Natalie Balsom on the ABC soap opera "One Life to Live" on July 16, 2001. The character was later established to be the long-lost daughter of original character Victoria Lord, portrayed by multiple Daytime Emmy Award-winner Erika Slezak. Archer previously auditioned for the role of Jennifer Rappaport then later on, she would audition for Natalie then named Valerie.
Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba
Prince Gregoire Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan (1827 – 1886) married Rakoul (Rachel) Musurus (born circa 1848), the daughter of Pasha Constantine Musurus (1807–1891) the Turkish ambassador to Britain. They had two children: Constantine and Anna Elizabeth, who married Conste Mathieu Frederic Ferdinand garcal de Noailles in Paris On July 29, 1897. Anna Elizabeth was a contemporary of Marcel Proust and a prominent figure in Parisian society.
Melissa Bulow
Melissa Jane Bulow (born 13 June 1980 in Ipswich, Australia) is an Australian cricketer. She has appeared in two Test matches and 19 ODIs for her country.
Elizabeth Mawson
Elizabeth Anne Mawson " née" Burlington (14 February 1927 - 16 February 2008) was a Canadian mezzo-soprano who appeared in opera, operetta, and musical theatre. She was particularly known for her performances as Marilla in "Anne of Green Gables", a role which she performed annually at the Charlottetown Festival for nearly 30 years, as well as in Canadian touring productions in 1970, 1973, 1980, and 1986. She was married to the bass-baritone singer Howard Mawson and frequently performed with him in the Toronto Light Opera Association. After its demise, she appeared in 1957 as Hanna in "The Merry Widow" and Carrie Pipperidge in "Carousel" with the Opera Festival Association of Toronto, and in the 1960s with its successor, the Canadian Opera Company, as Martha in "Faust" and Flora in "La traviata", and also at the Stratford Festival as Hebe in "H.M.S. Pinafore" and Marcellina in "The Marriage of Figaro". Other roles included Miss Todd in Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The Old Maid and the Thief". Mawson was born in Toronto and died in her native city at the age of 81.
Out of Our Minds (song)
"Out of Our Minds" (also abbreviated as "OOOM") is a song by Canadian alternative rock musician, Melissa Auf der Maur, written by Auf der Maur, long-time collaborator and producer Jordon Zadorozny and Priestess drummer Vince Nudo. The song was released as Auf der Maur's fourth single, and first from her second studio album of the same name, on November 9, 2009 as a free digital download.
Esther Wheelwright
Esther Wheelwright (31 March 1696 – 28 November 1780), also known as Mère Marie-Joseph de l'Enfant-Jésus, was born in Wells, Massachusetts (present day Maine). Wheelwright was captured during an attack of her village during Queen Anne's War in 1703 by a group of French-Canadians and Wabanaki Indians, or First Nations Peoples. For five years, Wheelwright was raised by the French-allied Catholic Wabanaki, and then was brought to Québec where she was placed in the school of the Ursulines of Québec. She remained there the rest of her life, becoming a choir nun and eventually the Mother Superior of the convent in the immediate aftermath of the 1759 British conquest of Québec. She is notable not only for having lived in three major North American cultures, but also because she was and remains the only foreign-born Mother Superior the Ursulines of Québec have ever elected.
Melissa Auf der Maur
Auf der Maur briefly toured with former The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek in 1997, after contributing bass and background vocals to his 1997 solo album "Troublizing". She collaborated with French group Indochine on their song "Le Grand Secret", singing a duet in French with Nicola Sirkis, to great acclaim in France. Auf der Maur joined the band on stage to perform the song on various occasions and appeared in the music video for the song. She performed a rare, short, acoustic set of some of her solo songs during an Indochine show in Paris, February 22, 2002. Auf der Maur has contributed bass and backing vocals to childhood friend Rufus Wainwright's album "Poses" and appears in his 1998 video for "April Fools". In 2008, she collaborated with Canadian musician Daniel Victor on his music collaboration project Neverending White Lights. They recorded the song "The World is Darker", for which a video was released in March 2008. Aside from this, she has contributed to albums by artists such as Ryan Adams, Ben Lee, Idaho, The Stills and Fountains of Wayne.
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Melissa Aldana
Melissa Aldana (born 3 December 1988) is a Chilean tenor saxophone player, who performs both as a soloist and with her band Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio.
Melissa Helmbrecht
Melissa Helmbrecht ( 1975) is a New Jersey based social entrepreneur and activist who over the course of her career works to solve social problems through nonprofit work. Over the course of her career she has been working with children and families who struggle with adversity by helping them get the tools and resources they need to improve their lives. The three issues she works on the most are reforming the foster care system, ending mass incarceration, and making college affordable for low income youth.
Gab Sorère
Gabrielle Bloch was born in France around 1878 and was the privileged daughter of a French banker. Her mother, Anna, died before her eighteenth birthday, and wrote the book "Au loin, impressions hindoues", which Gaby published in 1898. She studied at home, reading Schopenhauer by the age of nine and by sixteen, she was studying the literature of ancient India. This may have been the trip recorded by her mother in the travelogue, which recounted visits to Ceylon, the Himalayas and northern India. When she was fourteen, Bloch first saw Loïe Fuller perform at her Paris debut in 1892, when her mother took her to the performance. She was familiar with the women in Natalie Barney and Gertrude Stein's salons, which included Romaine Brooks, Eileen Gray and Marie-Louise Damien, a singer better known as Damia, but like Gray, tended to be serious and had no patience with people who annoyed her.
Leona Maguire
Leona Maguire (born 30 November 1994) is an Irish professional golfer. She was ranked 1st in the world on the women's World Amateur Golf Ranking from 2 August 2016 until 28 February 2018 and was also ranked first for the 52 weeks from May 2015 to May 2016. Maguire's 135 weeks at the top is the longest in history. A native of County Cavan, her parents are schoolteachers Declan and Breda Maguire. At the age of 9, she gave up a promising swimming career to concentrate on golf. She is 15 minutes younger than her twin sister Lisa Maguire who is also a professional golfer.
Melissa Bacelar
Melissa Bacelar (born May 11, 1979 in Piscataway, New Jersey) is an American actress. She is best known as a scream queen and is most associated with the horror film genre. She is also known for her role as a waitress in 10 episodes of the ABC series "One Life to Live" between 2000 and 2002.
Maria Gładkowska
Maria Gładkowska (born 16 September 1957 in Zielona Góra) is a Polish film, stage, and television actress. She gained critical acclaim in the 1980s that culminated in her Zbigniew Cybulski Award (1988). She portrayed Daisy, Princess of Pless, her breakthrough performance, in "Magnat" (1987) - which was included in the list of 100 Best Polish Films of all time.
Melissa Gilbert
Gilbert was born in Los Angeles, California, on May 8, 1964, to a newly engaged couple, Kathy Wood and David Darlington, and given up for adoption immediately after birth. She was adopted one day later by actor and comedian Paul Gilbert (born Ed MacMahon, he changed his name to Paul Gilbert to get a Screen Actors Guild card) and his wife, dancer and actress Barbara Crane, the daughter of "The Honeymooners" creator Harry Crane. The couple later adopted a son, Jonathan, who co-starred on "Little House on the Prairie". Gilbert's adoptive parents divorced when she was 8 years old. Barbara Crane Gilbert then married Harold Abeles, and together they had biological daughter Sara Rebecca Abeles (the actress known professionally as Sara Gilbert) on January 29, 1975. On February 13, 1976, Paul Gilbert died. Although 11-year-old Melissa was told that he had suffered a sudden stroke, she found out years later that the 57-year-old had been a VA patient who dealt with constant pain and that he had taken his own life. The marriage of Barbara and Harold Abeles later ended in divorce. Per her biography, Gilbert was "lightly raised" in her adoptive mother's Jewish religion (her adoptive father was a Gentile), but did not have any formal religious education or conversion ceremony.
Splendor in the Grass (1981 film)
Melissa Gilbert was initially set to star in the remake of "Miracle on 34th Street", which also starred Natalie Wood. In 1981, she landed in the role of Deanie Loomis, a remake of a 1961 film, starring Wood. It was one of her first 'meaty roles'. Gilbert, only a 17-year-old by the time, started dating co-star Cyril O'Reilly while filming. She eventually lost her virginity to him on the last day of filming.
Followed the Waves
"Followed the Waves" was one of the many songs written by Melissa Auf der Maur over a 12-year period from 1992 to 2004. The song was featured as the second track on "Auf der Maur", following "Lightning is My Girl."
Malese Jow
Elizabeth Melise Jow (born February 18, 1991), best known as Malese Jow and recently Melise, is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Geena Fabiano on the Nickelodeon sitcom "Unfabulous", Lucy Stone on the Nickelodeon musical sitcom "Big Time Rush" and as Anna, a teenage vampire on The CW's fantasy drama "The Vampire Diaries". She starred as Julia Yeung in the short-lived CW science fiction romantic drama "Star-Crossed". Jow starred as Mareth Ravenlock in season two of "The Shannara Chronicles". She has most recently been cast in "Invincible (TV series)" for "Amazon" set for release in 2020.
Melissa Hutchison
Melissa Hutchison (born October 24, 1975) is an American voice actress who is well known for her voice role as Clementine in "The Walking Dead" and its sequels, for which she won "Best Performance by a Female" at the 2013 Spike Video Game Awards and was nominated for the 2014 NAVGTR Award "Performance in a Drama, Lead" respectively. She has also been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award for "Best Performer".
Melissa Henderson
Born in Garland, Texas to Kelly and Kathy Henderson, Melissa attended and played for Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas where she received several honors and awards during her time. Henderson played three seasons for the varsity soccer squad and set school records with 66 goals and was second overall in assists with 45 (overall 177 points) in 47 career matches. Henderson did not play her senior season due to national-team commitments. She was named a Parade All-American following her sophomore and junior seasons, a two-time all-district performer at Berkner where she was also district MVP and all-area, two-time NSCAA youth All- American in 2006 and 2007, 2007 NSCAA/Adidas Youth Player of the Year, and became the first junior women's soccer player ever named Gatorade National High School Player of the Year (2006–07 season); only six other juniors (from any sport) have ever received the Gatorade national honor at the time. On top of Henderson's dominant high school soccer career she was also a three-year member of the National Honor Society, involved in student council, served as student council senior class secretary, helped coach younger soccer players and was a member of Young Life.
Glasser (musician)
Mesirow was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father is a member of the Blue Man Group in Berlin, and her mother, Casey Cameron, is one of the founders of new wave band Human Sexual Response. Following her parents' divorce, she relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area at age ten. She had some piano lessons as a child, and performed in musicals at school. Mesirow eventually studied German and literature at San Francisco State University, where she met Foreign Born singer Matt Popieluch, who helped draw out her songwriting abilities.
Melissa Jaffer
Melissa Jaffer (born 1 December 1936) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her television roles, but has also appeared in many Australian films.
Jaffer has made many appearances in television series, including "Kings", "Mother and Son", "G. P.", "Brides of Christ", "Grass Roots" and "All Saints". Jaffer is probably best known to international audiences for her role as aging mystic Utu-Noranti Pralatong in the science fiction series "Farscape". In 1976, Jaffer tied for the first AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role opposite Jacki Weaver for her performance in "Caddie". In 1980 she played the part of "Cousin Edie" in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's children's television series "The Nargun and the Stars".
Abigail Mejia
Ana Emilia Abigaíl Mejia Soliere (April 15, 1895 – March 15, 1941) was a feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator from the Dominican Republic. She completed her primary education at the Salome Ureña de Henríquez School for Girls and Liceo Dominicano. In 1912, she became a teacher in Barcelona where she resided with her family. She returned to the Dominican Republic in 1925 and became a professor of Literature, Pedagogy and History at the Superior Normal School of Santo Domingo. She is one of the leading figures of feminism in the Dominican Republic, founding the Club Nosotras in 1927 and Acción Feminista.
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Melissa Bowen appears in the Freeform series "Marvel's Cloak & Dagger", played by Andrea Roth. After the car accident that killed Nathan on the night with the Roxxon Gulf Platform collapsed, Melissa struggled to make ends meet while dealing with the fact that Roxxon repossessed some of Nathan's stuff from her home upon his death and posthumously firing with the help of her lawyer boyfriend Greg. While she still loves her daughter, Melissa has since become an alcoholic and a drug pusher and has been working low paying jobs that she keeps getting fired from. Despite her many flaws, she does show genuine concern for her daughter. She further ends up in a relationship with married lawyer Greg Pressfield, but she breaks up with him. She immediately regrets this, but he is murdered by an female hitwoman posing as a water jug delivery person. In "Ghost Stories," Melissa and Tandy celebrate the anniversary of Nathan's death. Tandy and Tyrone later access Melissa's memory where it was shown that he once slapped Melissa for spilling coffee on his paperwork. This led to Tandy taking up Peter Scarborough's offer to pay to get Melissa out of the trailer park. In "Back Breaker," the female hitperson that killed Greg confronts Melissa at her home working under Peter Scarsborough's orders by the time Tandy visits her mother. She tells Tandy that she's got until the count of three to come out before she shoots Melissa. Thanks to a tactic by Tandy, she saved her mother from the hitwoman and left to confront Peter Scarsborough. Following the Terrors crisis, Melissa is cleaning up her house as Tandy comes home showing her a newspaper stating that Roxxon was responsible for the incident.
Melissa Sue Anderson
Anderson was born September 26, 1962, in Berkeley, California, the second of two daughters, to James and Marion Anderson. Her sister, Maureen, is twelve years her senior. When she was seven years old, Anderson's family relocated from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles. Her parents divorced when she was thirteen years old, and she was raised Roman Catholic by her mother. As a young child, Anderson appeared in commercials for Mattel and Sears.
Melissa Francis
Melissa Ann Francis (born December 12, 1972) is an American actress and current commentator for the Fox Business Network (FBN) and Fox News (FNC).
Melissa Peterman
Melissa Margaret Peterman (b. July 1, 1971) is an American actress and comedian from Burnsville, Minnesota, who is best known for her role as Barbra Jean in the television comedy series "Reba". Peterman has appeared as Bonnie Wheeler in the ABC Family/Freeform series "Baby Daddy", and as host of ABC Family's "Dancing Fools", ABC's "Bet on Your Baby", and CMT's "The Singing Bee".
Melissa Stott
Melissa was born in Manchester and grew up in Cheshire and Derbyshire, her family moving south to Hertfordshire when she was 11 and Singapore when she was 16. She grew up "humming harmonies at the dinner table", studied classical piano from the age of 6 and was involved in musical activities during her school years and while at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where she graduated in Drama. She was also active as a dancer, studying with Leo Kersley. In early 1996 she toured Denmark and Sweden with Big Wheel Theatre In Education , finally settling in Italy in September 1996. From 2000 to 2002 she worked as an actress and puppeteer for FunSongs alongside Charles Goodger.
Anna Maria Komorowska
Countess Anna Maria d'Udekem d'Acoz (born Countess Anna Maria Komorowska on 24 September 1946) is a Polish noblewoman and the mother of Queen Mathilde of Belgium.
Melissa Benoist
Melissa Marie Benoist (; in ; born October 4, 1988) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She has performed on stage and in television and film. She is known for her portrayal of the titular character in the CBS/CW DC Comics–based superhero drama series "Supergirl" (2015–present).
Annemarie von Nathusius
Annemarie von Nathusius, originally "Anna Maria Luise von Nathusius" (28 August 1874, Ludom/Poznań – 17 October 1926, Berlin), was a German novelist who wrote boldly about issues of women’s sexuality and lived a distinctly unconventional life. In her books, she criticized the sexual ignorance and exploitative marriages imposed on young women of her class. Her most successful novel was "Das törichte Herz der Julie von Voß". The novel "Malmaison" 1922 was film adapted by Paul Ludwig Stein for the movie "Es leuchtet meine Liebe".
Melissa Bean
Melissa Luburich Bean (born January 22, 1962) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for from 2005 to 2011. Bean is a member of the Democratic Party.
Melissa Müller
Melissa Müller (born 1967 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian journalist and author.
Melissa Rycroft
Melissa Katherine Rycroft-Strickland (more commonly referred to as Melissa Rycroft, born March 11, 1983) is an American television personality, host, and dancer. She is a former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. She participated as a bachelorette on the thirteenth season of ABC's "The Bachelor", on the CMT reality TV series "", and on the eighth and fifteenth seasons of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars". Rycroft went on to host reality-TV competition shows such as "Bachelor Pad" and "Redneck Island".
Tinker (band)
Melissa Auf der Maur left Hole on October 20, 1999. She recruited her former Tinker bandmates to join her solo band and toured throughout 2002-03 before hitting the studio. The end result was Melissa's first solo album, the eponymous "Auf der Maur." "Real a Lie" would later be reworked and released in 2004 under Auf der Maur's solo project. Though he did not perform on the album, Zadorozny produced the album, as well as her second album, "Out of Our Minds" on which Durand wrote one track.
Melissa Panarello
Melissa Panarello (born 3 December 1985 in Catania), alias Melissa P., is an Italian writer.
Melissa M
Melissa Merchiche (born August 21, 1985 in Marseille), better known by her stage name Melissa M or simply Melissa, is a French R&B singer of Algerian origin. Her debut album entitled "Avec Tout Mon Amour" and two successful singles, "Elle" and "Cette Fois" was on April 23, 2007. "Avec Tout Mon Amour" was ranked in the French Top 50. Her second album entitled "Melissa M" was released in 2009. In November 2013 the single "Jump" was released to help promote her upcoming third album, which is still untitled. She currently lives in Gardanne, France.
Melissa Auf der Maur
Auf der Maur and Corgan became pen pals. Following months of no contact, Auf der Maur sent a letter to Corgan requesting that Tinker open for The Smashing Pumpkins during their next tour date in Montreal. Corgan accepted her request and Tinker performed the largest show of their career, to 2,500 people, opening for The Smashing Pumpkins at Métropolis on November 30, 1993. Corgan, Auf der Maur recalled, "patted me on the back. He said, 'You're a really good bass player. You're going to be in my band one day.' It felt like a dream come true – exactly the kind of confidence boost I needed."
Melissa de la Cruz
Melissa de la Cruz (born 1971) is a Filipina-American author known for her work in young adult fiction. She has written several series of young adult novels, including the "Au Pair" series and the "Blue Bloods" series, and a contemporary fiction series following "The Beauchamp Family", as well as a number of stand-alone novels.
Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur (born September 12, 1943) is an American folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1973 hit song "Midnight at the Oasis" and continues to record albums in the folk traditions.
Melissa Miller (artist)
Melissa Miller (born 1951) is an American painter. She was born in Houston, Texas, attended the University of Texas at Austin from 1969 to 1971, and received a B.F.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1974. She exhibited in both the 1983 Whitney Biennial and the 1984 Venice Biennale She taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1998 until retiring in 2011, and continues to live and paint in Austin.
Her paintings have evolved from realistic action-packed images of wild and domestic animals, to allegories incorporating both realistic and supernatural creatures.
Melissa M
Melissa M was born on August 21, 1985 in Marseille, in the southern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Her parents are from the Algerian city of Bejaia.
Melissa Disney
Melissa Disney (born November 20, 1970) is an Emmy-nominated American actress, voice actress, singer-songwriter, writer, and film producer. Her best known role to date was as the voice of the titular character in the popular Nickelodeon animated series "As Told by Ginger".
Melissa McNamara
Melissa McNamara Luellen (born May 25, 1966) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.
Melissa Marsh
Melissa Marsh (born 28 May 1985) is an Australian former professional basketball player. She spent her whole career playing the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) and State Basketball League (SBL). She played in the WNBL from 2000/01 to 2013/14, playing for the Perth Lynx / West Coast Waves from 2000 to 2005 and 2006 to 2014, and with the Adelaide Fellas in 2005/06. She also played for the Willetton Tigers in the SBL from 2000 to 2004 and 2007 to 2015. She played 266 WNBL games and over 250 SBL games.
Melissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester (born February 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Since the 1970s, her songs have been carried by adult contemporary radio stations. She has also appeared on television, in films, and on stage.
Melissa Molinaro
Melissa Smith (born June 4, 1982), better known by her stage name Melissa Molinaro, is a Canadian-American pop singer, actress, choreographer, and model. She is perhaps best known for her reality TV appearances on "Making the Band 3" and "". She has recently co-starred in Dolph Lundgren's action film, "Command Performance", and had a major role in "Honey 2". She adopted her mother's maiden name "Molinaro" as her professional name in 2010. Melissa has received notable attention from her appearance in Old Navy's "Super C-U-T-E" commercial in 2011 and for the video for "Dance Floor", the first single from Melissa's debut album "The Love/Dance Project".
Melissa Beowulf
Melissa Beowulf (born 1957) is an Australian artist, specialising in portraiture and sculpture. She grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to Canberra in the late 1980s. She is based at both Canberra and Woollahra.
Teresa Magbanua
Magbanua's date of birth is variously reported as 13 October 1863, 13 October, 1868, or 4 November 1871. She was born in Pototan, Iloilo, Philippines, to affluent parents. "Don" Juan Magbanua, a judge, sat on the Court of First Instance in Iloilo City, while Doña Alejandra Ferraris was the daughter of Captain Benito Ferraris. Teresa was the Magbanua's second child, joining her sisters María and Paz, and younger brothers Manuel, Pascual and Elias. Magbanua was recorded to have been a precocious child, remembered by one of her sisters as a "dynamic personality, restless, and unafraid of any man."
Melissa Joan Hart
Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress. She had starring roles as the titular characters in the sitcoms "Clarissa Explains It All" (1991–1994), "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" (1996–2003), and "Melissa & Joey" (2010–2015).
Melissa Elias
Melissa Elias (born March 12, 1978) is a Canadian actress. She stars in the television series "Falcon Beach" on the Global Television Network and ABC Family. She is in a Lions Gate theatrical picture released in 2005 called Tamara (2005 film). Elias also stars in the dystopian Gen RX distributed by Tricoast Worldwide, winning 2014 California Film Competition at California Film Awards.
Melissa Arnot
Melissa Arnot Reid (born December 18, 1983) is an American mountaineer. She has climbed to the summit of Mount Everest six times.
Melissa Auf der Maur
Returning to Montreal in 2001 after the disbandment of The Smashing Pumpkins, Auf der Maur was unsure about whether or not to continue her music career. In an interview with "Jam!", she said that her "relationship to music had become very army-oriented. I was a soldier, a hard worker who never got enough satisfaction from the music. I didn't know if I was going to make my own record". In late 2001, upon discovering old demo recordings in her home, Auf der Maur decided to pursue a solo career after she had "realized [she] had an entire album's worth of material that had been sitting there for years".
Mariah Buzolin
She was born in São Paulo, Brazil on February 3, 1991. She is the youngest child of two. Her parents named her Mariah Buzolin Oliviera but sometimes she credited as Mariah Moore in several films. At the age of six, she moved to Chicago with her family, where in less than three months she was fluent in the language. In 2003, her first professional opportunities began to appear when she won a fashion contest, competing against hundreds of other girls nationwide. She moved to Los Angeles in 2006 after getting the attention from several agents and agencies.
She began her acting career in 2007 when she playing Sara in "Fallout" and also playing Mary in "The Faithful" alongside "Aliens in the Attic" star, Austin Butler. She also had appearance on the Nickelodeon series "Zoey 101" as Brooke Margolin. In 2009, she playing Beth on the American children's comedy film, "Hotel For Dogs" alongside Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin. She became known for her role as Angelina on the Disney Channel series, "Jonas".
Melissa Papworth
Melissa Papworth (born 18 June 1966 in Melbourne Victoria) is an Australian former cricket player. Papworth played domestic cricket for the Victorian women's state cricket team between 1987 and 1994. She played three One Day Internationals for the Australia women's national cricket team.
Norma Moriceau
Norma Moriceau (15 April 1944 – 21 August 2016) was an Australian costume designer and production designer. She was best known for the post-apocalyptic leather-fetish biker warrior costumes she designed for "Mad Max 2" (1981) and "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985).
Melissa Fiorentino
Melissa "Missy" Fiorentino (born January 19, 1977) is a female boxer from Cranston, Rhode Island, United States. Her global boxing ID is US-00-076087. Her fighting nickname is: "The Fury"
Beatrice Kozera
Beatrice (Bea) Kozera ("née" Rentería; October 13, 1920 – August 15, 2013) was an American born woman, farm worker and single mother. She was the inspiration for the character "Terry" (or "Terry, the Mexican girl") in Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel, "On the Road". In fact, it was this story, "The Mexican Girl," that opened the doors for the publication of "On the Road." The book was later the subject of a 2012 film adaptation of the same name produced by Francis Ford Coppola in which she was marginally portrayed by Alice Braga. Until 2013, her life story was unknown until author Tim Z. Hernandez began to search for her in 2008 and discovered her alive in his hometown of Fresno, California in 2010. Together with Kozera and her family he wrote the book "Mañana Means Heaven". It is the only account of Bea Kozera’s story that was authorized by the family.
Gabriela Rivero
Gabriela Rivero Abaroa was born on September 15, 1964 in Mexico City. She is the daughter of Maria de Lourdes Abaroa and Mario Rivero. She began her career as a model and dancer. In 1984 she hosted the children's show Xe-Tu with René Casados, also guest-starring in the La Hora del Gane show. Afterwards she was cast in several telenovelas such as The Secret Path (costarring Daniela Romo), Carrusel (with Augusto Benedico), The Edge of Death (with Humberto Zurita), among others. She was the host of the Gaby's Club (El Club de Gaby) show in 1993, after recording a children's album which achieved great success. In 1994 she starred in the movie Una Maestra con Angel in 1994 and worked in several plays such as The Magic Carousel, The Wizard of Oz, Don Juan Tenorio (a play that Gonzalo Vega stages every year) between others. She has released three albums: Club Gaby, Imagination, Gaby's Club to the Rescue and Singing to Cri-Cri.
Melissa Gregory
Melissa Gregory (born May 22, 1981) is a former American ice dancer. With partner and husband Denis Petukhov, she is the 2005 Four Continents silver medalist, a 2006 United States Olympic team member, and a four-time (2004–07) U.S. national silver medalist.
Melissa Tapper
Tapper was born on 1 March 1990 in Hamilton, Victoria, and resides in the Melbourne suburb of South Melbourne. She has a brachial plexus injury resulting in Erb's palsy. In 2004, she was attending Monivae College. That year, she won the South West Sports Assembly's junior female of the year award. In 2011, she was working on a bachelor's degree in exercise science.
Marcella Liburd
Marcella Liburd was born on 10 July 1953 in Basseterre, Saint Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis to Anne Eliza (née Martin) and Clement Liburd. After attending Basseterre Girls School, Liburd graduated from Basseterre High School. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of the West Indies in 1976.
Melissa Buhl
Melissa Buhl (born January 25, 1982) is an American former professional downhill and mountain-cross racer who has been racing as pro since 1998. She was the 2005 USAC (USA Cycling) National Pro Downhill Champion and 2002 USAC National Pro Mountain Cross Champion, and 2008 4-X World Champion, NMBS DH Champion, NMBS 4-X Champion. Buhl started racing for KHS Factory Racing in 2001 and retired in 2012.
Melissa Calderon
Melissa Margarita Calderón Ojeda (born August 12, 1984), also known as ""La China"", is a suspected Mexican drug trafficker, assassin and the leader of ""Las Fuerzas Especiales de Los Dámaso"", an enforcer group of the Sinaloa Cartel. She is allegedly responsible for over 150 murders in Mexico and multiple outbreaks of violence in La Paz.
Melissa Ferlaak
Melissa Marie Ferlaak (born April 26, 1979) is an American soprano from Cottage Grove, Minnesota. She is best known as former singer for symphonic metal bands Aesma Daeva, Visions of Atlantis and Echoterra. She is now current singer of her female-fronted doom/death metal project Plague of Stars and ambient band MY Eternel with Voa Voxyd. She just completed writing the libretto and vocal parts for a new "Avante-Garde Nihilist Opera" entitled Demandolx: The First Chapter of Convent Demonic Possession, and additionally sang the role of Madeleine on the recording of the work. Throughout her career, she has guest appeared with other bands such as Ad Inferna, Withering Soul, Azure Emote, North, Beto Vazquez Infinity, Rising Dream, Adyta, Stardust Reverie and Voidwork.
Mel Maia
Melissa Maia de Sousa, better known as Mel Maia (born May 3, 2004) is a Brazilian child actress. She rose to fame in 2012, when she played young Rita in the telenovela "Avenida Brasil". For that role she received multiple awards. She was born in Rio de Janeiro.
Melissa Horn
She was born to singer Maritza Horn (born 1951), and Edvard Terrence Weitzberg (born 1955) in an area in Södermalm, near Stockholm. She has five siblings, all boys. Her parents got her a guitar when she turned 16, and not long afterwards she wrote her first song. She took vocal courses and then got hold of a producer and eventually got a record contract before she finished high school. In 2010, she started a company called Edward AB.
Melissa Suffield
Suffield was born on 24 December 1992 in London, England. She plays the guitar and piano, and has taken ballet lessons since the age of two, and still dances under the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus at the intermediate grade. She attended Hatch End High School. Suffield has four sisters; Jessica, Daisy, Annabelle and Eloise.
Marguerite Moreau
Moreau was born on April 25, 1977 in Riverside, California. Her first break-out role was playing the recurring part of Melanie on "Blossom" in 1994 and 1995. She guest starred in several TV series such as "Boy Meets World" and "3rd Rock from the Sun". As a child actress, she appeared in the "Mighty Ducks" films playing Connie Moreau. After graduating from Vassar College with her B.A. in political science in 1999, she landed some of her most prominent roles.
Melissa De Sousa
Melissa De Sousa (born September 25, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Shelby in the 1999 romantic comedy-drama film "The Best Man" and its 2013 sequel "The Best Man Holiday". De Sousa also starred as Gabriella Jimenez in BET's "Reed Between the Lines" (2011). Born in New York City, De Sousa is of Panamanian descent.
Melissa Wiley
Melissa Wiley is the pen name of Melissa Anne Peterson (born December 17, 1968). She is noted as an author of books for children, especially two book series about Laura Ingalls Wilder's ancestors: "The Martha Years"; and "The Charlotte Years". She is a contributing writer at Wired.com's GeekMom blog and cowrites a webcomic with her husband, Scott Peterson, and illustrator Chris Gugliotti.
Kathleen Maguire
Kathleen Maguire (September 27, 1925, New York City, New York – August 9, 1989, The Bronx, New York) was an American actress who won an Obie Award in 1958 for her performance in the stage play, "The Time of the Cuckoo". She was also known for two roles in two short lived soap operas on television, first as wealthy widow, Kate Austen on "A Flame in the Wind"; and as extremely conservative doctor's wife, Adrian Sims on the series "A World Apart". She later replaced Doris Belack in the role of Anna Wolek Craig in the long-running serial "One Life to Live". Among her film credits are the 1957 drama "Edge of the City", "Flipper" (1963), "The Borgia Stick" (1967), "The Concorde ... Airport '79" (1979), "Willie & Phil" (1980), and the TV movie "Bill" (1981).
Melissa Ramski
Melissa Rachel Ramski was born on March 25, 1991 in Fort Pierce, Florida. She is the daughter of David and Nancy Ramski and has an older sister Mindy. She was introduced to show-business by chance when her mum took her to have her photo taken at Walmart when she was only 18 months old. The store liked the photo of Ramski in a box so much that Walmart requested to use it for print ads for Walmart Photography across Texas. From age 5 she started to sing and perform at various events, such as weddings, barbecues, fairs and concerts. On December 3, 2005 Ramski performed for the Wilmore Opry Christmas Show at the Heritage Center near Medicine Lodge, Kansas. The Wilmore Opry is owned by Martina Mcbride's parents.
Melissa Ruscoe
Melissa Jane Ruscoe (born 15 December 1976) is a New Zealand sportswoman who has served as captain of her country's national team in two different football codes: association football and rugby union.
Real a Lie
"Real a Lie" was one of the many songs written by Melissa Auf der Maur over a 12-year period from 1992 to 2004. Originally titled "Realalie", the song was first performed by her original band, Tinker, which also included co-writer Steve Durand, and was released as the band's second single in 1994, which was backed with the b-side "Saxon Princess." Auf der Maur later reworked the song during the recording sessions for "Auf der Maur" in 2003-4 featruing a layer Wall of sound of guitars. The song was featured as the third track on the album.A promotional music video was created for the single in 2004 and released on May 3, 2004.Firecrasher, "MAdM | Melissa Auf der Maur | Archives | Watching video: Auf der Maur - Real, A Lie" http://www.melissaaufdermaur.org/video/view/auf_der_maur_real_a_lie/14 Retrieved on June 20, 2010. The video is compiled of photographs of Auf der Maur performing "Real a Lie" and was recorded in still motion.
Melissa Bardin Galsky
Melissa Bardin Galsky (born January 17, 1972) is an American voice actress, writer and producer for several animated sitcoms from the Soup2Nuts company. She was associate producer and talent coordinator for "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist", but is best known for playing the character "Melissa" on the show "Home Movies", which aired on both UPN and Cartoon Network and was created by Brendon Small and Loren Bouchard. In addition, she has voiced characters on two other Soup2Nuts-produced shows: "O'Grady" and "Hey Monie!", both also starring fellow "Home Movies" alumnus H. Jon Benjamin.