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| Born into an entertainment family, her father and mentor John Clarke, portrays "Micky Horton" on "Days of our Lives" and her mother Patricia, was a ballet dancer. Raised in Dana Point, California, Melinda began training ballet, tap and jazz at the age of four at her mother's studio. Throughout her teenage years, she performed in many stage productions and musicals as well as participating in workshops at South Coast Repertory (SCR) and summer camps at Idyllwilde School of Music and the Arts (ISOMATA). She also has many years of extensive voice training and is a "Coloratura Soprano." At the age of eighteen, with her parent's blessing, Melinda moved to Los Angeles to pursue her professional career and has been working consistently ever since. Melinda has had starring roles in feature films including, "Spawn," "Killer Tongue," "Critics," "Return to Two Moon Junction," "Return of the Living Dead III," and "Young Goodman Brown." Her performance in "Killer Tongue" won her the Best Actress Award at the 1996 Sitges Fantasy Film Festival in Spain. In addition to her feature film roles, Melinda has also appeared on the small screen as a series regular in Aaron Spelling's "Heaven Help Us" and NBC's "Days Of Our Lives." Her guest starring credits also include; "Likely Suspects," "The George Carlin Show," "Strangeluck," "Lawless," "Xena: Warrior Princess," "Sliders," "Nash Bridges" and most recently "Seinfeld." For Melinda, however, musicals are the ultimate performance. They are not only a test of her acting ability but they put her dance and voice lessons to work as well. Further proof of this opinion is that her favorite stage musical is West Side Story and "All That Jazz" her favorite film. On the stage, Melinda has starred in such musicals as The Music Man, Oklahoma, West Side Story, Sound Of Music, Hello Dolly and The Fantastiks. Her stageplay credits include Vicious (the original Sid and Nancy Story), The Elephant Man, Lie of the Mind and Dark of the Moon. When not out performing, Melinda likes to spend time with her fiance (husband after June 28th), family and her three cats, Bella Blue, Bart and Cruiser at her home in the Los Angeles area. |
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