Melissa Joan Hart's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Sabrina Spe… Dancing With the Stars Melissa Joa… Melissa & Joey Mel Burke Clarissa Explains It All Clarissa Da… 100 Greatest Teen Stars Melissa Joa… America's Funniest People Melissa Joa… Celebrity Blackjack Melissa Joa…

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Nine Dead 2006 - Jesus, Mary and Joey 2001 - Not Another Teen Movie 2001 - Recess: School's Out 2000 - The Specials 1999 - Drive Me Crazy 1998 - Can't Hardly Wait

BIOGRAPHY:

Melissa grew up in Sayville, New York. Her acting career started at the age of four, when she did a commercial for a bathtub toy called Splashy. Her mother, Paula Hart, has been her agent from the beginning. Melissa has five younger sisters, Trisha Hart, Elizabeth Hart (I), Emily Hart (I), Alexandra Hart-Gilliams, and Samantha Hart (II) and two younger brothers, Brian Hart (II) and Mackenzie Hart--all of whom except for the latter have appeared on Melissa's TV series "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (1996).

Melissa performed in two plays as the youngest member of New York's Circle Repertory Lab Company: "Beside Herself" in 1989 (starring Lois Smith (I) and William Hurt (I)) and "Imagining Brad" in 1990. She was also in the National Actors Theater production of "The Crucible" on Broadway with Martin Sheen (as understudy of three of the children in the play). Melissa cites Shirley Temple and Audrey Hepburn as early acting inspirations and still collects memorabilia of the former. For the past few years, she has been juggling acting and attending New York University. She's now living in the Los Angeles area.


TRIVIA:

• Performed in an off-Broadway play titled "Beside Herself" with 'William Hurt (I)' (qv) and 'Calista Flockhart' (qv) in 1989.
• Full name is Melissa Joan Catherine Hart: Melissa from the 'The Allman Brothers Band' (qv) song; Joan from her maternal grandmother; and Catherine is the name she chose for herself as her confirmation name.
• Hobby: collects great paintings; owns 3 Picassos
• Celebrated her 32nd birthday at Disneyland with her husband Mark and their two sons.
• (October 1999) Started collecting estate jewelry.
• Her younger half brother, Mackenzie, is the only one of her siblings who did not join the acting business.
• A small role she had in _Crocodile Dundee (1986)_ (qv) was cut from the film.
• Was born at 1:30 p.m. on Easter Sunday.