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. Linda Hunt is the announcer for the KQED public radio lecture/interview show City Arts & Lectures. She has appeared in other movies since Drive Me Crazy, but none have brought her as much recognition. Beside her acting abilities, her two most distinguishing characteristics are her small stature (she is 4' 9" or 1.45 m), and her rich, resonant voice which she has used effectively in numerous documentaries, cartoons, and commercials. Hart also appeared in the music video for this song. Her movie debut was in the film Popeye. 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. Her best known roles are as the male half-Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan in the movie The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) (for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress) and as Judge Zoey Hiller on the television series The Practice.

In between, she also worked on the series Touched by an Angel and starred in several TV movies. Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American 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. Linda Hunt's Internet Movie Database entry (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001373/). After the series was canceled, she decided to invest in higher education and went to New York University. Fame (1978). The show brought her four consecutive Young Artist Award nominations, of which she won three, and made her a household name among American teenagers. Space Rangers (1993).

The Nickelodeon series, a comedy about a teen girl in everyday situations, became a big hit and aired for four seasons. The Practice (1997). This paved the way for her to land the title role in the TV show Clarissa Explains It All. Popeye (1980).
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. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). 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. Dune (1984).

From then on, she appeared regularly in commercials, making 25 of them before the age of five. Silverado (1985). When she was still a baby, she made her first TV commercial for a bathtub toy called Splashy. Kindergarten Cop (1990). Hart's career began early on. Pocahontas (1995). 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.