Name |
Melora Walters |
Height |
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Naionality |
American |
Date of Birth |
21-October-1959 |
Place of Birth |
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia |
Famous for |
Acting |
Melora Walters is an American actress. Walters was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia to American parents. She was partly raised there and in Holland. Walters attended high school at Lake Forest Academy-Ferry Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois. She is divorced from Nip/Tuck actor Dylan Walsh, with whom she has two children, Joanna and Thomas, and from actor-producer Christopher Scotellaro, her first husband. Her divorce from her third and current husband, cinematographer Alex Vendler, is pending.
Cast several times by Paul Thomas Anderson, Walters has appeared in Hard Eight, Boogie Nights (as Jessie St. Vincent), and Magnolia (as Claudia Wilson Gator). She has also appeared on such television shows as Roseanne, Seinfeld, NYPD Blue and CSI. In 2003, Walters portrayed Lila in Cold Mountain, and in 2004, played Andrea Treborn in the The Butterfly Effect. She guest-starred as Sylvia Greene on Desperate Housewives in 2007 and played the role of Wanda Hendrickson in the HBO drama Big Love.