Melanie Lynskey Biography

Melanie Jayne Lynskey is best known for her starring turn in Peter Jackson's Academy Award-nominated Heavenly Creatures and for her role on CBS's Two and a Half Men. Lynskey developed a love of acting at a young age dreaming she'd one day be working in Wellington doing theater. In 1992 when she was 15 years old Lynskey was discovered by Fran Walsh and immediately cast alongside Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures despite never having acted professionally. Directed and co-written by Peter Jackson the film received an Oscar nomination - Best Original Screenplay - in 1995 whilst earning Lynskey a Best Actress prize at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards. Lynskey went relatively unnoticed in the wake of the film's success. Consequently she did not receive any further offers of acting work except for work as an extra in The Frighteners. With no parts coming her way in New Zealand Lynskey journeyed to Los Angeles but only stayed for about three months. In spite of the praise she'd received for her debut casting directors proved reluctant to find her work in Hollywood and so she failed to secure another role. Returning home Lynskey temporarily gave up acting and instead spent two years studying at Victoria University. In her absence the agent who had agreed to represent her overseas continued working on Lynskey's behalf to get her noticed in Hollywood.

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