Melanie Lynskey
Acting
Biography
Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born May 16, 1977) is a New Zealand actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women and her command of American dialects, she works predominantly in independent films. Lynskey is the recipient of two Critics' Choice Awards, a HCA Award, a Gracie, a New Zealand Film Award, a Hollywood Film Award, and a Sundance Special Jury Award, as well as Gotham, Satellite, Saturn, Golden Nymph, Independent Spirit, Screen Actors Guild, and Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
As actor 106
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
House
2004
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
American Dad!
2005
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Last of Us
2023
Young Sheldon
2017
Big Brother
2000
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Two and a Half Men
2003
Psych
2006
After Midnight
2024
The Shield
2002
Mom
2013
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Yellowjackets
2021
Summer Camp Island
2018
Castle Rock
2018
Matlock
2024
Poker Face
2023
Key & Peele
2012
The L Word
2004
Hot Ones Versus
2024
Over the Garden Wall
2014
Don't Say Good Luck
2026
Don't Look Up
2021
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012
Hollywood Squares
2025
Coyote Ugly
2000
Rose Red
2002
Up in the Air
2009
The Frighteners
1996
Togetherness
2015
The Life & Times of Tim
2008
Celebrity Name Game
2014
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
2017
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2024
Candy
2022
Easy
2016
Flags of Our Fathers
2006
Girlboss
2017
Mrs. America
2020
EverAfter
1998
Sweet Home Alabama
2002
Future-Worm!
2016
Comanche Moon
2008
Shattered Glass
2003
The Informant!
2009
But I'm a Cheerleader
2000
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
Drive
2007
They Came Together
2014
This Morning
1988
XX
2017
Heavenly Creatures
1994
Leaves of Grass
2009
Detroit Rock City
1999
Away We Go
2009
Win Win
2011
Touchback
2011
Pike River
2025
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
2017
Lady of the Manor
2021
Happy Christmas
2014
Abandon
2002
Park
2006
We'll Never Have Paris
2014
Digging for Fire
2015
The Intervention
2016
The Changeover
2017
The Big Ask
2014
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
2007
1 Mile To You
2017
Goodbye to All That
2014
Helena from the Wedding
2010
Hello I Must Be Going
2012
Shooters
2002
The Cherry Orchard
1999
Sunshine
2017
Chu and Blossom
2014
Our Ex-Wife
2016
Griffin in Summer
2025
And Then I Go
2017
Say Uncle
2006
Rainbow Time
2016
Little Boxes
2017
The Nearly Unadventurous Life of Zoe Cadwaulder
2004
The Great & The Small
2016
Behind Over the Garden Wall
2015
Claustrophobia
2003
Eye of the Hurricane
2012
Folk Hero & Funny Guy
2016
Show of Hands
2008
Helena from the Wedding: Cast Interviews
2011
Foreign Correspondents
2001
Sadie
2018
A Kiwi Legend
2013
A Quiet Little Marriage
2008
Putzel
2012
Snakeskin
2001
The Making of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2024