Melissa Joan Hart

At 47 years old, Melissa Joan Hart has this physical status:

Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actor, producer, and director.

Clarissa Explains It All (1991–1994), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996–2003), and Melissa & Joey (2010–2015).

She has appeared in films Drive Me Crazy (1999), Nine Dead (2009), and God's Not Dead 2 (2016).

Early life

Hart was born in Smithtown, New York, the first child of Paula Hart (née Voje), a producer and talent manager, and William Hart, a carpenter, shellfish purveyor, oyster hatchery employee, and entrepreneur. Stanley John Voje, her maternal grandfather, was a Navy veteran and Catholic. Hart grew up in Sayville, New York.

After Melissa, they had four other children, Trisha, Elizabeth, Brian, and Emily, who are all in acting. In the early 1990s, her parents divorced, and she and her mother and siblings immigrated to New York City. When she finished in 3rd place in 1994, she mother Leslie Gilliams, the television executive who is best known for her appearance on Season 5 of MasterChef in 2014, was married in 1994. Alexandra, Samantha, and Mackenzie are three of Hart's half-sisters: Alexandra, Samantha, and Mackenzie.

Hart was named after the Allman Brothers' song "Melissa," while her middle name, Joan, came from her maternal grandmother. When she was in the eighth grade, she used Catherine as her confirmation name, but she does not use it to describe herself.

Personal life

Hart married Mark Wilkerson in July 19, 2003, after being seen at the Kentucky Derby in May 2002. The preparations for the ceremony, which took place in Florence, Italy, were chronicled in a television miniseries titled Tying the Knot, which was produced by Hart's production company Hartbreak Films and aired on ABC Family. Hart and Wilkerson have three sons, born in January 2006, March 2008, and September 2012. They lived in Westport, Connecticut, until 2019, when they moved to Lake Tahoe and then in 2020, they migrated to Nashville.

Hart and Wilkerson were included in People magazine's April 8, 2008 issue, introducing Braydon, their second child. Hart kept a diary with video interviews to document potty training her son, Mason, for Huggies Pull-Ups brand diapers.

Hart and her family are Presbyterians. In an interview, she said that they go to church every Sunday and prayed every night before every meal.

Hart has voiced support for several Republican candidates, such as voting for Bob Dole during the 1996 election. She tweeted on November 5, 2012, the day before that year's Election Day, that she was endorsing Mitt Romney for president. In a Mothers Demand Action demonstration in Brooklyn in May 2016, Hart has voiced support for increased gun safety. On August 16, 2016, she contributed to Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson's campaign in the run-up to last year's presidential election. She took over Johnson's campaign as its Connecticut chairperson on August 28, 2016.

Hart said in an Instagram post on August 19, 2021, she had contracted a rare case of COVID-19, despite being vaccinated.

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Career

Hart's career began at the age of four when she created Splashy, a bathtub doll. She appeared in commercials from then on, with 25 of them being in commercials before the age of five. Kane & Abel, a guest-starring role in an episode of The Equalizer in 1986, as well as a starring role in the Emmy Award-winning television film Christmas Snow in 1986. She appeared on the NBC daytime soap opera Another World, April 22, 1986. Jamie Lloyd, the lead role in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, was also auditioned for the role.

Sheen appeared in a Broadway production of The Crucible in 1989 as an understudy. She appeared in Beside Herself, alongside William Hurt and Calista Flockhart, an off-Broadway version of the same year.

Hart was granted a role on Nickelodeon's Clarissa Explains It All, a comedy about a teenage girl in everyday life, which was hugely popular during its four-year run. The show received three of her four consecutive Young Artist Award nominations, with three of them winning three. Her participation in the series culminated in her appearance in Nickelodeon's Director's Lab as a tour guide who takes the visitor on a film set.

Hart felt ashamed to be participating in a children's performance as a teen. Despite this, she was optimistic about the role, and "all [she] hoped for [she] would do it for a while."

Clarissa is also known as Clarissa: This Is What 'Na Na' Means and a video of Peter and the Wolf.

Hart produced a pilot episode for a spin-off show starring a college-aged Clarissa, learning about her transition from Clarissa to the workplace as an intern at a newspaper in 1995. The show featured a slow, jazz interpretation of its predecessor's theme song, as well as starring Robert Klein as her boss.

Hart appeared in Nickelodeon's anthology series Are You Afraid of the Dark in Season 2's "The Tale of the Frozen Ghost" (1993).

Hart remained at New York University after the television series ended. However, she dropped out after completing the title role for the 1996 TV film Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which was followed by the television series of the same name that lasted seven seasons on ABC and The WB. Hart later co-starred in a vivified version with Hilda and Zelda, as well as Hart's younger sister Emily playing in the title role. She appeared on the series Touched by an Angel and appeared in several television shows. Candace Cameron-Bure as Millie appears on the Boy Meets World episode "Witches of Pennbrook" as her character Sabrina Spellman; the episode also stars Hart's closest friend Candace Cameron-Bure as a witch.

Hart played a small part in the film Can't Wait but a few years later, she began to work on a film called Next to You, in which she appeared alongside Adrian Grenier. To promote the movie's soundtrack, Britney Spears performed a remix of her song "You Drive Me Crazy." The movie's name was changed to Drive Me Crazy in honor of the song's success as a top-ten hit. Both Hart and Grenier appeared in the song's music video to promote the film. Spears appeared on Sabrina as herself in the season four episode "No Place Like Home."

Hart was wearing lingerie on the front of Maxim magazine's October 1999 issue, as well as in a photo shoot and an accompanying story, which culminated in the publisher of the Sabrina comic book series's litigation suing her for breach of contract. Hart continued her acting career by appearing in Rent Control, which aired on the ABC Family cable network in 2005. Hart appeared on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, before 2003. On ABC and UPN, Hart was also a main voice actor on Sabrina: The Animated Series.

Hart made her directorial debut in 1999 in an episode of Disney Channel's So Weird that guest-starred her sister Emily. In 2001, Hart produced an episode of Nickelodeon's Taina. She produced six episodes of Sabrina between 2001 and 2002.

Hart directed her first film, Mute (2005), starring her sister Emily after Sabrina ended in 2003 after seven seasons. Hart appeared in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "Impulsive" as a teacher suspected of statutory abuse in 2007. In late 2007, she produced the "Anger Cage" video for her husband Mark Wilkerson's band Course of Nature. She starred in the ABC Family original film Holiday in Handcuffs, as opposite Mario Lopez. The film debuted on December 9, 2007, and it was the most highly rated program in the network's history, with 6.7 million viewers. In 2009, Hart appeared in My Fake Fiancé, another ABC film with a similar theme.

On August 17, 2009, it was announced that she would play in season nine of Dancing with the Stars. Mark Ballas, a two-time reigning champion, was paired with Hart. In week six of a potential ten, she was disqualified from the tournament. In the horror film Nine Dead, Hart starred Kelley.

Hart returned to a new weekly television series in 2010, starring Joey Lawrence in the ABC Family sitcom Melissa & Joey. In the series, Hart portrays a woman who recruits Lawrence as a nanny to help care for her incarcerated sister's children. For the first time since Sabrina, she occupied the director's chair for an episode in the second season.

Hart appeared in Love, Loss, and What I Wore, an off-Broadway production that began in March 2010 and ended in April 25, 2010.

With Sabrina, the Teenage Witch co-star and friend Soleil Moon Frye, Hart participated in an ad campaign for Gain detergent in March 2010.

Hart performed as a host in the International Emmy Awards on November 22, 2010.

In June 2012, St. Martin's Press announced that it had signed a deal with Hart to publish Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life. Hart wrote about growing up, being a child actor, her emergence as an actress, her troubled teenage years, and her attempts to strike a balance between motherhood and family life in the memoir.

Hart attempted to raise money for a romantic comedy film called Darci's Walk of Shame in 2013, but only managed to raise $51,605 (less than half of the target $2 million target). The project was ultimately shelved.

Melissa & Joey ended in August 2015 after 4 seasons and 104 episodes.

Grace Wesley, Hart's lead actor in God's Not Dead 2's 2016 film God's Not Dead 2.

In 2018, Hart was seen as Liz in the Netflix comedy film No Good Nick. On April 15, 2019, the series premiered. "Hail Barry" and the Young Sheldon episode "Cowboy Aerobics and 473 Grease-Free Bolts" was directed by her. In addition, Hart returned to Nickelodeon 25 years after Clarissa explains It All when she appeared on The Casagrandes, a spinoff of The Loud House.

Hart starred in the Lifetime film Dirty Little Secret in 2022, where it was inspired by true events and C.J.'s book Dirty Little Secrets. Omolulu is a fictional region of Ethiopia.

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