Melissa Joan Hart: Wiki, Bio, Age, Family, Career, Husband, Net Worth, Children, Height, Weight, Siblings, Boyfriends, Height, Weight, Hometown, Education, Movies, Music: Melissa Joan Hart is not only an American actress, but also a producer and a director. Melissa has been in the industry as early as the age of four. She began by doing commercials as a young girl. She had starred in many well known shows and movies like Clarissa Explains It All (1991–1994), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996–2003), Drive Me Crazy (1999), Nine Dead (2009), and God’s Not Dead 2 (2016). Melissa draws inspiration in her acting career from Shirley Temple and Audrey Hepburn. The actress had contacted COVID-19 in August 2021 despite being vaccinated. Melissa has fully recovered after coming down with the virus. On 17 October 2021, Melissa Joan Hart became the first person ever to win $1 million on ”Celebrity Wheel of Fortune”, and is currently a trending news on the Internet.
Melissa Joan Hart Early Life
Melissa was born in Smithtown, New York. She was the eldest of the eight children, Trisha Hart, Elizabeth Hart, Emily Hart, Alexandra Hart-Gilliams, Samantha Hart, Mackenzie Lee Hart, Brian Hart, some from her mother’s second marriage. Her mother, Paul Hart, was a producer and talent manager, became Melissa Joan Hart’s agent from early on. Her father, William Hart, was a a carpenter, shellfish purveyor, oyster hatchery worker and an entrepreneur. She has a lazy eye that prevents her right eye from opening as much as her left eye. She was born with a condition where she had no teeth on either side of her front teeth, which was later fixed in 1993. Melissa’s siblings, Trisha, Elizabeth, Brian, and Emily, have also engaged themselves in the acting business. Her parents got a divorce in the early 1990’s after which Melissa moved to her siblings in New York. Melissa got her name after the Allman Brother’s song “Melissa”.
Melissa’s Career
Melissa Joan Hart entered the industry with the help of her mother who continued to support her as her agent. Her first appearance was at the age of four in a bathtub toy commercial called Splashy. She continued making commercials till the age of five and by then she had appeared on 25 commercials. She also enacted some minor roles in the shows, The Equalizer, Christmas Snow, and in the miniseries Kane & Abel. In the year 1991, she got the starring role on a Nickelodeon series Clarissa Explains It All (1991-1994), which centered around a teenage girl with her everyday situations. The show was a total success during its four year run. Due to this role, she received four consecutive Young Artist Award nominations, out of which she won three of them. Melissa Joan Hart has also tried her hand in making music. She has made two rock-pop albums, This is What Na Na Means (1944) and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: The Album (1998), and a recording of Peter and the Wolf (1994), a classical children’s album. Melissa Joan Hart has also performed an off-Broadway play called Beside Herself with William Hurt and Calista Flockhart in the year 1989. Her recent works include God’s Not Dead 2, in which she played the lead role, and a Netflix comedy series, No Good Nick. Her skills in direction has been taken up in directing an episode from The Goldbergs, and an episode of Young Sheldon.
Melissa’s Personal Life
Melissa Joan Hart was born on 18 April 1976. In 2002, Hart met Mark Wilkerson, a musician, at the Kentucky Derby, who she later got married to on May 2009. The wedding and its preparations were filmed as a TV miniseries called Tying the Knot, which was produced by Melissa’s production company, Hartbreak Films. The actress has three children, Tucker McFadden Wilkerson, Mason Wilkerson, and Braydon Wilkerson. Melissa and her family are Presbyterians. In an interview, she had revealed that the family goes to the church every Sunday and prays every night before they have their meal. Before getting married to Mark, Melissa is known to have dated Jerry O’Connell, Ryan Reynolds, Bryan Kirkwood, Adrian Grenier and James Fields. The 45 year old actress is estimated to have a net worth of $13 million.
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Melissa Joan Hart Bio, Height, Weight, Profile, Net Worth
Real Name | Melissa Joan Hart |
Nickname | Mel, Melly J Hart |
Gender | Female |
Profession | Actress |
Height (approx.) | in centimeters– 157.4 cm
in meters– 1.5 m in feet inches– 5’ 2” |
Weight (approx.) | in kilograms– 55 kg
in pounds– 121 lbs |
Figure Measurements (approx.) | 34-28-37 |
Eye Colour | Blue |
Hair Colour | Blonde |
Date of Birth | 18 April 1976 |
Age (as in 2021) | 45 Years |
Birth Place | Smithtown, New York |
Zodiac sign/Sun sign | Aries |
Nationality | American |
Hometown | Smithtown, New York |
School | Sayville Middle School, New York |
College/University | New York University, New York |
Educational Qualification | Not Known |
Religion | Christianity |
Ethnicity | White |
Caste | Not Known |
Address | Not Known |
Hobbies/Interests | Snowboarding, Hockey, Painting |
Marital Status | Married |
Affairs/Boyfriends/Girlfriends | Jerry O’Connell, Ryan Reynolds, Bryan Kirkwood, Adrian Grenier, James Fields |
Sexuality | Straight |
Parents | Father: William Hart
Mother: Paul Hart |
Siblings | Brother: Brian Hart
Sister: Trisha Hart, Elizabeth Hart, Emily Hart, Alexandra Hart-Gilliams, Samantha Hart, Mackenzie Lee Hart |
Husband/Wife/Spouse | Mark Wilkerson |
Children | Tucker McFadden Wilkerson, Mason Wilkerson,
Braydon Wilkerson |
Net Worth | $13 million |
Some lesser-known facts about Melissa Joan Hart
- Melissa Joan Hart was offered the role of “Sidney Prescott” in Scream, a horror/thriller, but she turned it down.
- In 8th grade she chose “Catherine” as her confirmation name but it is not her legal name.
- Her favorite catchphrase which she constantly uses is “Woohoo!”.
- Melissa Joan Hart is the co-owner of the app Yowza!
- Since Melissa spent most of her school days on the set of Clarissa Explains It All she never got a proper graduation, so the network threw her a graduation ceremony and was deemed as “Graduate of Nickelodeon High School”.
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