Trivia

• Melissa has been an Australian champion in roller skating.
• Melissa quit high school at age 16.
• Melissa has won two Logie Awards, Australia’s Television Awards. She won a Logie in 1994 for “Most Popular New Talent,” for her work on ‘Home and Away’ (Seven Network). The following year, 1995, Melissa won a Silver Logie for “Most Popular Actress,” again for ‘Home And Away.’
• In 1995, Melissa was nominated in the Best Actress category of the British TV awards.
• In 1995, British ITV viewers voted Melissa the Most Desirable Star on television.
• Melissa was cast in Shaun Cassidy’s Hollyweird, but the series was never picked up by networks.
• Melissa was cast in the tv shows Mulholland Drive and L.A. Confidential, but both were ditched by the networks.
• Melissa’s role in the film Down with Love helped her get her role in Alias.
• Melissa’s stepdaughter Martina was born in 1995.
• In 1992, Melissa was named western Australia’s teenage model of the year.
• Melissa’s first starring role in a movie was in the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror.
• Was an Australian national champion in rollerskating. She won bronze medals in the National Championships in 1989 and 1990 and a silver medal at the Junior World Championship in 1991.
• Met her husband Claudio Dabed in Bali 1998 and married him in September 2000.