Melissa George

At 48 years old, Melissa George has this physical status:

Career

George started modelling in his early teens and was named Western Australia's Teenage Model of the Year in 1992. With a video camera, George and a friend, Cara Mitchinson, mocked the famous Australian soap Home and Away, respectively playing Bobby and Sophie Simpson. When George's parents were offered a role on the series, she and her parents were compelled to relocate from Perth to Sydney, where she began lodging with families. George met with casting director Liz Mullinar and was subsequently cast in the role of Angel Parrish. She made her first on-screen appearance on March 30, 1993, when she was a teen fugitive. When being on duty, George made property purchases and wrote advice columns for two English teenage magazines.

Her appearance earned her five consecutive Logie Award nominations, two of which she received. When she was paired up with Shane Parrish, the actress became a hit on television, and now she is one of the soap's most beloved couples. On the 30th of August 1996, George left Home and Away. Mind, Body and Soul (1996), a health and fitness magazine, created "An Angel at My Bedside," and appeared on the short-lived 1997 Fox Broadcasting Company television drama drama series Roar, opposite Heath Ledger. Her excitement in staging the show's stunts endeared her to Shaun Cassidy, who later starred her as the female lead in the pilot Hollyweird. She would appear alongside Bodhi Elfman and Fab Filippo in a series about "the adventures of an intrepid pair of friends from Ohio who use their passion for the macabre to solve crimes plaguing Los Angeles." The pilot was supposed to film, but Cassidy, who dropped out of the project, said Fox had ordered him to spend "much of the last year trying to fix something I never saw as broken in the first place." In the end, the show never went on. For the March 1997 issue of Australian Playboy, George appeared on the front cover and in a nude pictorial.

In late 1997, George moved from Australia to the United States in the hopes of establishing a career in Hollywood. "I saw Jennifer Leigh in a parking garage, and [later] the same night, I went to a restaurant and opened the door, and Courtney Love was sitting on the loo." George made her film debut in the critically acclaimed neo-noir science fiction film Dark City (1998) within a year of relocating.

She appeared in Steven Soderbergh's 1999 neo-noir crime film The Limey, and she appeared in a supporting role in David Lynch's critically acclaimed Mulholland Drive, which premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. She appeared in several unaired television pilots, including the lead role in Lost in Oz, an original tribute to L. Frank Baum's Oz books. A significant amount of time passed before the decision was made to film a second episode after the pilot was shot. However, George's employment had ended by then, and she didn't want to go back to Australia to shoot it. In the end, a second episode was never shot, and the show was never picked up.

She appeared in the ABC drama-comedy Thieves, co-starring John Stamos. She appeared in the sixth season premiere of the WB series Charmed in 2003, and was first cast as Susan Freeman in the British series Coupling based on the British series of the same name. George was scripted and shot the pilot, but the network (NBC) fired George and her coworkers Breckin Meyer and Emily Rutherfurd, respectively, after "an audition from hell." Steven Moffat, the show's show creator, criticized NBC's meddling as the reason for the show's demise, saying that they "fucked it up because they intervened endlessly." "Because being replaced before the show aired, George later claimed she "dodged a bullet."

Lauren Reed appeared on ABC television show Alias in 2003. Sydney Bristow had attempted to play lead character Sydney Bristow but she was rejected by Jennifer Garner. When that happened, ABC cast her on Thieves instead. It was supposed that George would guest-star for several episodes, but she was quickly upgraded to regular. The writers wrote that she was born in the United States but grew up in London to explain her character's accent (George is Australian). "I was invited a few films so I decided to kind've [sic] move forward," George said after the third season.

Kathy Lutz was the first female lead in a feature film in 2005, a 1979 horror film called The Amityville Horror. Critics were not keen on the film, but it was a big success at the worldwide box office, grossing more than $108 million. Film Threat praised George and her co-star Ryan Reynolds' performances, saying that they "make a striking pair" despite unfavorable reviews. Both young and swanky, as well as that she "has an impeccable American accent," although, apart from that, Kathy Lutz is unsurpassed. Her physical appearance is often distracting, but not enough to keep the audience interested by her performance." She appeared in the thriller Derailed, co-starring Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston, playing the wife of a man embroiled in an affair.

Candace Bushnell's novel of the same name was announced in March 2006 that she had been cast in the NBC comedy-drama series Lipstick Jungle, based on the same name. George was supposed to play Nico Reilly, Bonfire Magazine's editor-in-chief. However, the show underwent significant changes, with George and other cast members being replaced, as well as executive producers DeAnn Heisler, writers Rand Ravich and producer Nigel Cole, who were all fired. George had been personally portrayed by Bushnell, but she was left early 2007 after she was given the HBO series In Treatment. She travelled to Brazil in 2006 to film Turistas (published in the United Kingdom and Ireland as Paradise Lost) with Josh Duhamel and Olivia Wilde. "The shooting of what was the first Hollywood film to be shot entirely on location in Brazil and George, who learned to speak Spanish and Portuguese, made me a better actor, more tenacious, and tougher."

Christine was the leading actress in the biographical drama Music Within, opposite Ron Livingston, which centered on a disability rights campaign in Portland, Oregon. The film was limited to a theater. In an interview, she said she "knew" Christine's a good person, and that she was the one in charge of Richard Pimentel's relative's success in a way. She was the driving force behind him and responsible for every good man, and Christine was the woman." She appeared in the British horror-thriller WZ and played a prominent part in 30 Days of Night, directed by David Slade and co-starring Josh Hartnett. With a worldwide gross of over $75 million, the film was a modest success.

In 2008, George returned to television in the HBO half-hour drama In Treatment, co-starring Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest, and was also nominated for "Best Supporting Actress" at the 2009 Australian Film Institute Awards.

George appeared on Grey's Anatomy for eleven episodes as Sadie Harris, a bisexual intern, but in January 2009, it was announced that she was leaving the show in a mutual arrangement with the producers. She appeared in the film The Betrayed, which was also released at the San Diego Film Festival in 2008, and was also released in the United States on June 30th.

On November 9, 2009, it was announced that George would appear in at least two episodes of Fox's Lie to Me as Clara Musso. George appeared in the Australian-British mystery thriller Triangle by Chris Smith, which attracted widespread praise. In addition, George appeared in the British thriller film A Lonely Place to Die (2010), directed by Julian Gilbey. For her role in the film, she scaled Ben Nevis Peak.

George was named the new star of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival in November 2010. George appeared in The Slap and as Sam Hunter in the Australian television series Hunted, which was shot over seven months in London, Scotland, and Morocco in 2012. In February 2015, an American version of the series, in which George played Rosie again, premiered on the NBC network. George's appearance in The New York Times described him as "particularly beguiling" -- "Because Rosie she is absurd, revolting, sad, and terribly comedic."

She appeared in the television series The First (2018), created by Beau Willimon and shot in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2017.

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