Meredith Salenger
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Meredith Dawn Salenger (born March 14, 1970) is an American actress.
She is best known for her appearance in The Journey of Natty Gann (1985) and the 1989 teen film Dream a Little Dream.
Early life and education
Salenger was born and raised in Malibu, California, with Dorothy, an interior designer, and Gary Salenger, a dentist. She is Jewish; her family is from Austria and Russia.
Salenger attended Santa Monica High School and enrolled at Harvard University from 1988 to 1992, and spent her freshman year in Mower Hall, where Tanya Selvaratnam was one of her roommates. Salenger received a psychology degree, which was lauded. Both she and her father received certificates from the Straus Institute for Family Law Mediation ("Court-Based Mediation of Family Law Issues" and "Mediating the Litigated Case" at Pepperdine University School of Law in 2009. and 2011. When she is not filming, she acts as a mediator for the Agency for Dispute Resolution in Beverly Hills, California.
Personal life
In July 2017, Salenger and comedian Patton Oswalt were engaged, as a pair. They married on November 4, 2017. Alice is Oswalt's niece, and she was the stepmother.
Career
As a child, Salenger enjoyed performing in front of her family and friends. Her mother took her to her first acting class when she was eight years old. Her first role was a small part as a 'singing and dancing orphan' in the feature film Annie, directed by John Huston. Salenger also did a number of television advertisements.
Salenger's first starring role was in the Disney film The Journey of Natty Gann, co-starring John Cusack and Ray Wise. The movie won her the Best Actress in a Drama award at the Young Artist Awards. After starring in four more films by her eighteenth birthday, including A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, The Kiss (1988) and Dream a Little Dream (1989), she left Hollywood for Harvard to further her education.
Salenger resumed her acting career upon her return to Hollywood with credits including Lake Placid and The Third Wheel. Salenger has also appeared in independent films, including Quality Time and Sparkle & Charm.
Salenger appeared in a 1998 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She also recorded a song titled "Flow Through Me" with Koishii and Hush; and she appeared as a background member of the Counting Crows video for "Hanging Around".
Salenger appeared in two episodes of Dawson's Creek in 2002 as film critic Amy Lloyd, and guest-starred on Cold Case playing victim Sloane Easton on the episode "Ravaged". Salenger had a cameo in the Disney film Race to Witch Mountain in 2009, where she played a television reporter named Natalie Gann.
Salenger has done the voices of several characters in Cartoon Network's Star Wars: The Clone Wars, including Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee and Ione Marcy during the second season, Che Amanwe Papanoida during the third season, and Pluma Sodi during the fourth season. She also appeared as Lisa Sanders in the one-hour Nick at Nite drama series Hollywood Heights which lasted 80 episodes, as well as several characters in Mad and Robot Chicken television series. In addition, Salenger voiced a Nightsister ghost in a season three episode of Star Wars Rebels. She can be seen opposite Elias Koteas in Jake Squared along with Virginia Madsen and Jennifer Jason Leigh.