Known For: Australian actress (born 1976)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, television actor, model, film actor
Country: Australia
City: Perth
Date of Birth: Friday, 06 August 1976
Language English
Melissa Suzanne George is an Australian and American actress. She began her career playing Angel Parrish in the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1993–1996). After moving to the United States, George made her feature film debut with a supporting role in the neo-noir science fiction Dark City (1998). She made the transition to leading roles when she appeared in the supernatural horror film The Amityville Horror (2005), gaining further recognition for the crime thriller film Derailed (2005), and the horror films 30 Days of Night (2007) and Triangle (2009).
| BirthPlace | Perth |
| Education | Q7971191 |
| Spouses | Claudio Dabed |
| Children | Solal Samuel Glenn Blanc |
| Website | http://melissageorge.co.uk/ |
| Wikipedia | Melissa_George |
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George was born in Perth, Australia, to Pamela - a nurse - and Glenn George, a construction worker. Her paternal grandmother was a Scottish immigrant. William Ward, a grandfather on her mother's side, worked as a prison warden at Rottnest Island, offshore from Perth. The second of four children, she is also a cousin of the opera singer Taryn Fiebig. George attended Warwick Senior High School and developed an interest in dancing and began studying jazz, tap, ballet, and modern dance at the age of seven. Her enthusiasm for dance eventually evolved into a passion for artistic roller skating. She is an Australian national roller skating champion and won bronze medals in the National Championships in 1989 and 1990. She won a silver medal at the Junior World Championship in 1991.
