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Trivia
Birth name: Melissa Suzanne George
Date of birth: 1 September 1974
Place of birth: Western Australia, Australia
Nickname: Mel
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Spouse: Claudio Dabed (22 September 2000 - present).
Stepdaughter, Martina, born 1995.
Was an Australian national champion in rollerskating.
Dropped out of high school at age 16.
Before joining "Home and Away" (1988), she was a champion
roller-skater.
Melissa's role in the film Down with Love helped her get her role in Alias.
Best friends with Rachel Blanchard.
In 1995, British ITV viewers voted Melissa the Most Desirable Star on television.
In 1995, Melissa was nominated in the Best Actress category of the British TV awards.
Melissa was cast in Mulholland Drive and L.A. Confidential, but both were ditched by the networks.
Met her future husband Claudio on June 20, 1998 in Bali
Melissa was cast in Shaun Cassidy’s Hollyweird, but the series was never picked up by networks.
Melissa has won two Logie Awards, Australia's Television Awards. She won a Logie in 1994 for "Most Popular New Talent," for her work on 'Home and Away' (Seven Network). The following year, 1995, Melissa won a Silver Logie for "Most Popular Actress," again for 'Home And Away.'
Melissa has been married to Claudio Dabed, a Chilean, since September 22, 2000.
Husband Claudio is Chilean
Born on exactly the same day as Soleil Moon Frye.
Melissa has cultivated the habit of being a winner. She won trophies and awards when she skated as a child, then awards for her modelling, and finally 2 Logies (Australia's top TV award) and countless other accolades for her acting in Home & Away.
Won the Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award - Best Female for Alias
(2001)
She scored small roles in a host of films, including Mulholland Drive, The Limey, Down With Love and Dark City, along with several TV shows which unfortunately got canned after being picked up.
She also courted controversy by posing nude in Black & White magazine and later in Australian Playboy.
At the 37th Annual TV Week Logie Awards held in 1995, George won the Silver Logie for "Most Popular Actress" for her work on Home and Away.
In 2005 she co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in the remake of The Amityville Horror, playing Kathy Lutz. She is married to Chilean businessman Claudio Dabed, and is step mother to his daughter Martina.
She was most recently seen promoting the Clive
Owen/Jennifer Aniston movie Derailed, in which she plays the character Deanna Schine, and is also busy putting the finishing touches to her newest film, Turistas (directed by John Stockwell).
In early 2006 she will be seen in an episode of the Nine Network's sequel to the series Twisted Tales, entitled Two Twisted.
Her next project is the film The Music Within opposite Ron Livingston, which will be followed by filming for the pilot of Candace Bushnell's Lipstick Jungle for NBC.
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