Name	Melanie Blatt
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Naionality	London
Date of Birth	25 March 1975
Place of Birth	London, UK
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Blatt was born at University College Hospital in the London Borough of Camden and is named after Melanie Safka. She has a French mother and a Jewish father whose ancestors were from Poland and Russia and a younger sister named Jasmine. She was brought up in both the UK and France. In 1986, Blatt was diagnosed as having scoliosis. Since her parents weren't satisfied with the treatment for the condition in the United Kingdom they decided to move to France (the country of her mother's birth) where a specialist decided that the best way to treat it was to put three metal rods in her back.

Blatt went to Fitzjohn's Primary School where her musical talent was immediately noticed by the head teacher David Joyne, who encouraged her parents to send her to a stage school. In 1986, she attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School where she met Nicole Appleton. The two girls became best friends. During this period, Blatt also played young Eponine in Les Misérables for six months, and was the understudy for Cosette together with fellow Sylvia Young student Denise van Outen.[unreliable source?