Melinda Mullins (born April 20, 1958) is an American

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmospher ...

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

and

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perfor ...

actress.

Early life and education

She earned her

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...

degree in the

Romance languages The Romance languages, sometimes referred to as Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages, are the various modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language ...

from

Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. ...

in South Hadley,

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut Massachusett_writing_systems.html" ;"title="nowiki/> məhswatʃəwiːsət.html" ;"title="Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət">Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət'' En ...

, in 1979. She also studied at the

Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely ...

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

, and the

Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...

. She also took the Alan Weiss Broadcasting Course and Michael Shurtleff's Scene Study and Audition Class.

Career

Mullins has appeared in numerous roles in film, television and on the Broadway stage. While appearing in several TV series, such as ''

M*A*S*H ''M*A*S*H'' (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, and based on the semi-autobiographical fiction of Richard Hooker. T ...

'' or ''

Law & Order ''Law & Order'' is an American police procedural and legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf and produced by Wolf Entertainment, launching the '' Law & Order'' franchise. ''Law & Order'' aired its entire run on NBC, premiering ...

'', Mullins may be best known for her role as former Broadway leading lady Hilary Booth in Rupert Holmes' ''

Remember WENN ''Remember WENN'' is a comedy-drama television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on the cable channel American Movie Classics. Created and written by Rupert Holmes (with music also by Holmes) and set at the fictional Pittsburgh radio station ...

''. Mullins, who also writes screenplays and short stories, has been married to actor/author

Joshua Bryant Joshua Bryant (born July 2, 1940) is an American actor, director, author, and speaker who is the founder of the Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival in Taos, New Mexico. Early life and education Bryant was born in Norfolk, Virginia. After at ...

, who appeared as Jack Scully on ''M*A*S*H'', since 2005; the couple currently resides in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

Filmography

* 1982: ''

'' (Martine LeClerc) * 1987: ''

Crossbow A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an Elasticity (physics), elastic launching device consisting of a Bow and arrow, bow-like assembly called a ''prod'', mounted horizontally on a main frame called a ''tiller'', which is hand-held in a similar ...

'' (Blade) * 1989: ''Prisoners of Inertia'' (Charlotte) * 1991: ''

What About Bob? ''What About Bob?'' is a 1991 American black comedy film directed by Frank Oz and starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray plays Bob Wiley, a troubled patient who follows his self-centered psychotherapist Dr. Leo Marvin (Dreyfuss) o ...

'' (Marie Grady) * 1992: ''Law & Order'' (Forensics Technician) * 1993: '' Dennis the Menace'' (Andrea) * 1995: ''Law & Order'' (Chris Chappel) * 1996: ''Rescuing Desire'' (Toni) * 1996-98: ''

'' (Hilary Booth)

Broadway

*''Mastergate'' (Merry Chase) *''Serious Money'' (Scilla) *''Sherlock's Last Case'' (Liza/Damion)

Off-Broadway and Regional

*''Escape from Happiness'' (Elizabeth) *''Titus Andronicus'' (Tamora) *''Macbeth'' (Lady Macbeth) *''Adoining Trances'' (C. McCullers) *''Measure for Measure'' (Isabella) *''Midsummer Night's Dream'' (Titania/Hippolyta) *''Twelfth Night'' (Olivia) *''The Play's the Thing'' (Mona) *''Wild Oats'' (Honest Bob) *''Amerika'' (Chorus)

Awards and nominations

*1986 - B.H. Barry Stagefighting Prize *1996 - Screen Actors Guild Award Nomination *1999 - New York Festival Award: Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series *1999 - Chicago International Television Festival Outstanding Achievement in Acting

External links

* *
melindamullins.com
Melinda Mullins official website 1958 births Living people American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses Mount Holyoke College alumni {{US-theat-actor-1950s-stub