Melissa Joan Hart

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. Inescort died in Woodland Hills, California from multiple sclerosis, a disease she had been diagnosed with in 1932. She has appeared in other movies since Drive Me Crazy, but none have brought her as much recognition. Her films include Mary of Scotland (1936), Pride and Prejudice (1940), The Letter (1940), The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941), The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1946) and A Place in the Sun (1951). Hart also appeared in the music video for this song. She moved to Hollywood and made her film debut in The Dark Angel (1935). 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. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, she was the daughter of the actress Elaine Inescourt. Her first Broadway performance was in 1922 and over the course of the next thirteen years, she acted in sixteen productions, and established herself as a notable dramatic actress.

In between, she also worked on the series Touched by an Angel and starred in several TV movies. Frieda Inescort (June 29, 1901 – February 26, 1976) was an actress. 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. 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.