Melanie Lynskey movies

May 16 1977, New Plymouth, New Zealand) is an actress best known for her starring turn in Peter Jacksons Oscar-nominated movieHeavenly Creatures (1994) and for her role on the American sitcom Two and a Half Men. Biography
Lynskey developed a love of acting at a young age when her dream was to be a stage actor in Wellington, New Zealand. In 1992, when she was a 15-year-old drama captain at her school in New Plymouth, Lynskey was discovered by Fran Walsh and immediately cast alongside Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures, a true-life crime story set in Christchurch, New Zealand in the 1950s, in spite of never having acted professionally.

Directed and co-written by the then unknown Peter Jackson, the 1994 film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay the following year.in Heavenly Creatures, her first film role]]Unlike her friend and co-lead, however, Lynskey went unnoticed in the wake of the films success. Consequently, she did not receive any further offers of acting work, except for a non-speaking, walk-on part in The Frighteners. With no roles coming her way in New Zealand, Lynskey journeyed to Los Angeles, but only stayed for about three months. In spite of the praise she received for her debut role, film producers and casting directors proved to be less willing to find her acting work in Hollywood, and she failed to secure another role. She returned home, temporarily gave up acting, and spent two years studying for an English Literature degree at Victoria University in Wellington. In her absence, the agent who had agreed to represent her, Susan Smith, continued to keep working on her behalf to get Lynskey noticed by the Hollywood casting directors.In 1997, she headed to Los Angeles for a second time at the request of indie filmmaker Mark Tapio Kines, who had read about Lynskey on the internet and wanted to cast her in his debut feature, Foreign Correspondents.

Melanie Lynskey Movies

All movies starring Melanie Lynskey.

• Abandon
• Big Stan
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• "Comanche Moon"
• Coyote Ugly
• Detroit Rock City
• "Drive"
• Ever After
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Itty Bitty Titty Committee
• "Rose Red"