Anita Garvin

. In 2003, Hart and her production company, Hartbreak Films, produced a miniseries entitled Tying the Knot, documenting her wedding to musician Mark Wilkerson, a member of the band Course of Nature. In the early 1940's Garvin gave up acting to raise a family. She has appeared in other movies since Drive Me Crazy, but none have brought her as much recognition. She then began working for the Hal Roach, where she appeared in many silent films with Chase. Garvin appeared in a total of eleven Laurel and Hardy films. Hart also appeared in the music video for this song. Later, she moved to California where she initially worked for the Christie's comedy unit. In 1999, Melissa landed a small part in a movie named Can't Hardly Wait, and then starred in Drive Me Crazy, a movie that includes "(You Drive Me) Crazy", a number-one hit by Britney Spears, on its soundtrack.

Garvin was born in New York City. In between, she also worked on the series Touched by an Angel and starred in several TV movies. She is best known for her work with the comedians Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase. But acting called upon her once again, and in 1994, she got the main role for the TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which eventually led to her also starring as Sabrina in a television series which lasted seven seasons. Anita Garvin (February 11, 1906 - July 7, 1994) was an American actress and comedienne who appeared in both silent and sound films. After the series was canceled, she decided to invest in higher education and went to New York University. The show brought her four consecutive Young Artist Award nominations, of which she won three, and made her a household name among American teenagers.

The Nickelodeon series, a comedy about a teen girl in everyday situations, became a big hit and aired for four seasons. This paved the way for her to land the title role in the TV show Clarissa Explains It All.
In 1989, she auditioned for a Broadway production of The Crucible starring Martin Sheen, becoming an understudy to three of the young girls in the play. Other early TV work included a small role in the miniseries Kane & Abel in 1985, a guest-starring role in an episode of The Equalizer in 1986, and a starring role alongside Katherine Helmond in the emmy award-winning TV movie Christmas Snow, also in 1986.

From then on, she appeared regularly in commercials, making 25 of them before the age of five. When she was still a baby, she made her first TV commercial for a bathtub toy called Splashy. Hart's career began early on. Her stepmother is the former Lisa Hunt of Sayville.

Sister Trisha Hart has worked as a producer. Most of her siblings have acted, among them Elizabeth Hart, Brian Hart, Emily Hart, and Alexandra Hart-Gilliams. Her immediate family includes her father, William Hart, her mother Paula Hart, her stepfather, television executive Leslie Gilliams, eight sisters (three of them stepsisters) and one brother. Her full name is Melissa Joan Catherine Hart, Catherine being the name she chose for her confirmation in eighth grade.

Hart was born in Smithtown, New York, on Long Island, and grew up in Sayville, New York. Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress who is best known for playing the title roles in two successful television series, Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.