Melanie Lynskey Biography

Melanie Lynskey

Melanie Lynskey (* 16. May 1977 in new Plymouth, New Zealand) is an actress of New Zealand.

Biography

Melanie Lynskey visited 1994 still those new Plymouth Girls High School, where she participated with different school performances, since she was fascinated by the looking plaything from the outset.

There she was discovered at the age of 15 by Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson, who looked for suitable occupation for the role of the Pauline Yvonne Rieper in Heavenly Creatures.

The international success of Heavenly Creatures announced Kate Winslet, but not Melanie Lynskey. Therefore it pulled after only sechsw?gem stay in Los Angeles, after it had received only refusals, again to New Zealand, where it studied to the Victoria University in Wellington. During its study it had only a small Filmrolle in Peter Jacksons The Frighteners.

Owing to its friend Gaylene Preston became Melanie Lynskey somewhat more ambitiously and accepted the role of the “nice” stepsister in on always and eternally. In addition it obligated Marks of Tapio Kines, the producer and scriptwriter of Foreign Correspondents.

With it their career began as a more well-known Hollywood actress, because roles in Detroit skirt town center beside Edward Furlong, in The Cherry Orchard beside Alan Bates and Shattered Glass beside Hayden Christensen followed. Also its further films, like for example because I a girl are and Abadon, were very successfully.

In Coyote Ugly as well as in Sweet Home Alabama beside Reese Witherspoon had Melanie Lynskey only a Nebenrolle as a close friend of the main characters.

Since 2003 it plays the neighbour rose in the TV serial Two and A helped Men with Charlie Sheen.

At present it lives in Los Angeles.

Filmografie

* 1994 Heavenly Creatures…. Pauline Yvonne Rieper
* 1996 The Frighteners…. Deputy
* 1998 on always and eternally (Ever after)…. Jacqueline de Ghent
* 1999 Measureless ton one
* 1999 Foreign Correspondents…. Melody
* 1999 Detroit skirt town center…. Beth Bumsteen
* 1999 because I a girl am (But I'm A Cheerleader)…. Hilary Vandermuller
* 1999 The Cherry Orchard…. Dunyasha
* 2000 Coyote Ugly…. Gloria
* 2001 Snakeskin…. Alice
* 2002 Shooters…. Marie
* 2002 Stephen King's house of the Verdammnis (rose talk)…. Rachel “Sister” Wheaton (TV-Miniserie)
* 2002 Sweet Home Alabama…. Lurlynn
* 2002 abandonment…. Mousy Julie
* 2003 Claustrophobia…. Lauren
* 2003 Shattered Glass…. Amy fire
* 2003 Two Men (my cool uncle Charlie) helped and A…. Rose (TV serial)
* 2004 The Nearly Unadventurous Life OF Zoe Cadwaulder…. Zoe Cadwaulder
* 2005 Say Uncle…. Susan
* 2006 park…. Sheryl
* 2006 flags OF Our Fathers…. Pauline Harnois
* 2007 Itty Bitty Titty Committee

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