Melissa George
Melissa George
Melissa Suzanne George is an Australian-American actress. A former national rollerskating champion and model in Australia, George began her acting career playing Angel Parrish on the Australian soap opera Home and Away from 1993 to 1996. After moving to the United States, George made her film debut in the neo-noir science fiction feature Dark Cityand later appeared in supporting roles in Steven Soderbergh's crime film The Limeyand David Lynch's Mulholland Drive...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth6 August 1976
CityPerth, Australia
CountryAustralia
I'd like to work with David Lynch again.
I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.
If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure.
You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in New York and you're loving life and it sounds great because it's like reading a book. When you step into that book and you actually have to play it out, for real, it's a totally different ball game.
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I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know.
Jennifer Garner and I are very close.
You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.
I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.
No matter what the character is, I just say to myself 'If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I react?' and once you do that you can just go for it, and hopefully the performance comes through.
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
Anything dark and emotionally complex, I'll do it. You're acting, but when you take an acting role, you have to live it. You're living the life of that person.
My background is Scottish.
Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.