Melanie LynskeyFilmography

Born:: May 16, 1977 in New Plymouth, New Zealand
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: When Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures was released to international acclaim in 1994, it launched the career of a then-unknown actress by the name of Kate Winslet. Unfortunately, it didn't do the same for Winslet's co-star, the similarly unknown and equally talented Melanie Lynskey. As Pauline...Read More

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Up in the Air

Actors: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Danny R. McBride

Synopsis: Juno's Jason Reitman heads into corporate America territory once again with this adaptation of Walter Kirn's novel Up in the Air for Montecito Pictures. The plot surrounds a human resource administrator (George Clooney) whose life up in the friendly skies becomes his only world as he works to Read More

12/4/09
The Informant!

Actors: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Rick Overton

Synopsis: A rising star in the agricultural industry suddenly turns whistleblower in hopes of gaining a lucrative promotion and becoming a hero of the common people, inadvertently revealing his penchant for helping himself to the corporate coffers and ultimately threatening to derail the very investigation Read More

9/18/09
Away We Go

Actors: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Allison Janney, Catherine O'Hara

Synopsis: When slacker thirtysomething couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) discover that his parents are moving overseas, the duo -- who expect their first child in a few months -- set off on a cross-country tour to figure out where they should lay down some roots in Sam Mendes' poignant Read More

6/5/09
A Quiet Little Marriage

Actors: Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Cy Carter, Jimmi Simpson, Michael O'Neill, Lucy DeVito

Synopsis: A young couple who have different ideas about the future of their relationship find themselves drifting into a domestic civil war in this independent drama. Dax (Cy Carter) and Olive (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) have been married for a few years, and while they clearly love one another and have a Read More

2008
Two and a Half Men: Season 06

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

2008
Show of Hands

Actors: Melanie Lynskey, Craig Hall, Stephen Lovatt, Chelsie Preston-Crayford

Synopsis: A handful of strangers turn into rivals when they line up for an unusual competition in this comedy-drama from Australia. An auto dealership eager to drum up some publicity stages a contest in which some lucky person will drive away with a brand new SUV. All you have to do to win is be the person Read More

2008
Drive [TV Series]

Actors: Nathan Fillion, Kristin Lehman, Mircea Monroe, Riley Smith, Kevin Alejandro

Synopsis: An amalgam of Death Race 2000 and Lost with CGI effects thrown in, the quasi-fantasy action series Drive centered around a strange, exclusive, strictly secret and highly illegal cross-country race, wherein the contestants were all but shanghaied into participating for a winning purse of Read More

2007
Two and a Half Men: Season 05

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

2007
Flags of Our Fathers

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Read More

10/20/06
Say Uncle

Actors: Peter Paige, Kathy Najimy, Gabrielle Union, Anthony Clark, Lisa Edelstein

Synopsis: A gay artist and telemarketer with a special knack for getting along well with children discovers just how closed-minded the suburbs can be when he attempts to find happiness after losing his godson in writer/director Peter Paige's affectionate, not-so-black comedy. Paul Johnson (Paige) is a Read More

6/23/06
Two and a Half Men: Season 04

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

2006
Park

Actors: William Baldwin, Anne Dudek, Dave Fenner, Trent Ford, Dagney Kerr

Synopsis: Set during one afternoon at a Los Angeles, this edgy ensemble sex comedy was the feature debut of director Kurt Voelker. Starring William Baldwin, Ricki Lake, and Cheri Oteri, Park intertwines the lives of several unsuspecting people, including a suicidal woman, a philandering lawyer, his snooping Read More

2006
Two and a Half Men: Season 03

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

2005
Two and a Half Men: Season 02

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

2004
Shattered Glass

Actors: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, Melanie Lynskey, Hank Azaria, Steve Zahn

Synopsis: Before Jayson Blair made headlines for his plagiarized New York Times reporting, Stephen Glass defamed the weekly current events magazine The New Republic with a series of eye-catching, entertaining, and completely fabricated stories. Now Glass' trail of lies gets the big-screen treatment in Read More

10/31/03
Serial Slayer

Synopsis: Lock your doors, draw the curtains, and avoid the windows for this terrifying tale of a madman who stalks his prey from the rooftops of their comfortable suburban homesteads. If you thought murder was relegated to the inner-city, you'll be holding your breath and listening for footsteps on the Read More

2003
Two and a Half Men: Season 01

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

2003
Abandon

Actors: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel

Synopsis: A young woman is faced with the disturbing reemergence of a man she once loved in this psychological thriller. Embry Langan (Charlie Hunnam) was a wealthy but reckless student at an exclusive private college until he mysteriously vanished, with airline tickets to Europe left unused and plenty of Read More

10/18/02
Sweet Home Alabama

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: After establishing herself as a bankable star with the fish out of water comedy Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon returns in what could be described as a "fish back in water" comedy. Melanie Carmichael (Witherspoon) is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating Andrew Hennings (Patrick Dempsey Read More

9/27/02
Rose Red

Actors: Nancy Travis, Matt Keeslar, Kimberly J. Brown, David Dukes, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Horror specialist Stephen King claimed that his TV miniseries Rose Red was inspired by a number of sources, ranging from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (twice filmed as The Haunting) to Ripley's Believe It or Not to Moby Dick. Residents of San Jose, CA, however, quickly realized that Read More

2002
Snakeskin

Actors: Boyd Kestner, Dean O'Gorman, Oliver Driver

Synopsis: A pair of sheltered Christchurch suburbanites longing for adventure get more than they bargained for after picking up an American hitchhiker in this New Zealand thriller starring Heavenly Creatures' Melanie Lynskey. Alice and her best friend, Craig, live for carefree days spent roaming the rural Read More

2001
Coyote Ugly

Actors: Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, John Goodman, Melanie Lynskey

Synopsis: An aspiring musician becomes one of the most famous bartenders in New York in this high-spirited comedy-drama. Small-town girl Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo) dreams of making a name for herself as a singer and songwriter, so she moves to New York City in hopes of landing her big break. Needing to Read More

8/4/00
But I'm a Cheerleader

Actors: Natasha Lyonne, Cathy Moriarty, Bud Cort, Mink Stole, RuPaul, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: In this satire, parents who are worried that their children might not be walking the straight and narrow path discover a rehabilitation camp designed to curb alternative lifestyles. Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a high school student and member of the cheerleading squad, seems like an ordinary enough Read More

7/7/00
Detroit Rock City

Actors: Edward Furlong, Giuseppe Andrews, James DeBello, Sam Huntington, Lin Shaye

Synopsis: Are you ready for the hottest band in the land? It's 1978 in Detroit, and pretty much any teenager who isn't a total wimp is totally stoked for the upcoming Kiss concert (as anyone who ever listened to {^Kiss Alive!} knows, Detroit has always loved this band). But four proud members of the Kiss Read More

8/13/99
The Cherry Orchard

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Katrin Cartlidge, Owen Teale, Frances de la Tour

Synopsis: Renowned Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis wrote and directed this adaptation of the classic final drama by playwright Anton Chekhov, set in 1900. Lyubov Ranevskaya (Charlotte Rampling) left Russia to escape troubling memories of the death of her son. Now her family is riddled with debt and Read More

1999
Ever After

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds

Synopsis: Andy Tennant directed this Cinderella variant. The Brothers Grimm arrive at the home of a wealthy Grande Dame (Jeanne Moreau) who speaks of the many legends surrounding the fable of the cinder girl before telling the "true" story of her ancestor. In flashback, the story then focuses on Read More

1998
The Frighteners

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Read More

1996
Heavenly Creatures

Actors: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison

Synopsis: After winning a cult following for several offbeat and darkly witty gore films, New Zealand director Peter Jackson abruptly shifted gears with this stylish, compelling, and ultimately disturbing tale of two teenage girls whose friendship begins to fuel an ultimately fatal obsession. Pauline (Melanie Lynskey Read More

1994