Melanie Linsky is a little-known New Zealand actress. Her name is known only to fans of the films “It’s good to be quiet” and “Informant”. What other works are included in the filmography of the performer and how is her career as a whole?
Melanie Linsky: photo, the early years
Melanie was born in mid-May 1977. According to the zodiac sign she is Taurus. The declared parameters of the actress: height - about 170 cm, weight - 57 kg.
Melanie Linsky is a native of New Zealand. Her hometown is the place of New Plymouth.
Actress Melanie Linsky: filmography. "Heavenly creatures"
It so happened that the girl got the first experience of filming a movie at the age of 15. And she immediately got the main role in a rather complex and controversial project.
It's about the drama of Peter Jackson, which he directed in 1994. When writing the script, the future creator of The Lord of the Rings was guided by the diary of a real-life girl named Polina Parker. What is this movie about?
The storyline develops in the 50s. in New Zealand. The main character named Pauline (Melanie Linsky) lives in a small provincial town. Soon in this quiet place a bright and extraordinary schoolgirl from the UK (Kate Winslet) appears . Girls who are only 15 years old fall in love with each other.
Mom Pauline notices the strange behavior of her daughter. She does not want to put up with her strange inclinations at all, so she is trying in every possible way to impede the close relations of schoolgirls. Then Juliet and Pauline agree to kill the poor woman. Naturally, teenagers are detained by the police after the deed. The court gave the maximum time for both friends.
The film received critical acclaim, and also won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the main award at the Toronto Film Festival and many other awards.
“Red Rose Mansion”
After the triumph in “Heavenly Creatures,” a lot of offers fell in on Melanie Linsky. Films with her participation were released annually. However, the actress herself admits that she refused the majority of offers from Hollywood in order to graduate from the university with dignity (the girl received a profession related to English literature).
As a result, Melanie failed to make a high-profile career. She has about 30 film projects, but at least some of them are popular.
Quite good ratings were, for example, in the Canadian-American series Red Rose Mansion. This project was shot based on the script by Stephen King. King in America is considered a cult writer. On the basis of his works, such movie hits as “The Green Mile”, “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Children of the Corn” were shot.
The Red Rose Mansion is a mystical story about a house that was built in Seattle at the beginning of the 20th century. According to legend, one way or another, 23 disappearances and deaths are associated with this building. Nowadays, a specialist in parapsychology, a certain Joyce Riordan, gathers a team of psychics, intending to prove with the example of this house that supernatural forces do exist.
Other actress projects
Melanie Linsky from 2003 to 2015. starred in the comedy sitcom "Two and a Half Men." The project is interesting in that the main roles are played by two Hollywood stars at once: Charlie Sheen (Three Musketeers) and Ashton Kutcher (Butterfly Effect).
In 2009, Linsky starred in the thriller Informant by Stephen Soderbergh. Her screen partner was Matt Damon (Jason Bourne).
In 2012, the actress received a small cameo in the acclaimed "House Doctor" with Hugh Laurie. She also played the native aunt of the protagonist in the melodrama "It Is Good to Be Quiet."
In the same year, the romantic comedy “Hello, I have to go” was released, where Melanie appeared in the image of Amy, a young woman who survived a divorce and desperately looking for herself. The actress also got the main role in the comedy We'll Never Have Paris.
Melanie's personal life
In 2007, on the set of one of the projects, the actress met
Jimmy Simpson. Jimmy is widely known in the United States for his roles in the television series The House of Cards and The Kings of Escape. Linsky and Simpson got married shortly after they met.
The actress opposes diets and self-torture by fasting. Its parameters do not comply with generally accepted Hollywood standards. However, she deliberately is not going to lose weight, even for the role. Melanie claims that she wants to show by her example: extra pounds are not a reason to complex.