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Melinda McGraw

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Melinda McGraw is a classically trained actress known for her range, playing a wide variety of roles in comedy and drama alike. Ms. McGraw grew up in the Boston area and was a member of the Boston Children's Theater. She attended Bennington College briefly until she was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Her schoolmates included Clive Owen and Ralph Fiennes, among several other notable talents. After appearing in many theatrical productions in London's West End and around the UK she returned to the States in 1990. Melinda McGraw was critically acclaimed for her turn as Bobbie Barrett in Season 2 of "Mad Men" which earned her a Screen Actors' Guild Award as part of the Best Ensemble Cast, as well as an OFTA Television Award for Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2007). She is also known for her work as Barbara Gordon in "The Dark Knight," as Scott Bakula's love interest in AMC's "Men of a Certain Age," as Diane Gibbs-Fornell-Sterling in "NCIS" and as Dana's sister Melissa Scully in the "X-Files." She received a Best Supporting Actress Award from the Milan Film Festival for "Meeting Spencer" opposite Jeffery Tambor and Jesse Plemons. Ms. McGraw is married to composer/recording artist Steve Pierson and they have a daughter.
BornOctober 25, 1963
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Melinda McGraw in Seinfeld (1989)
Melinda McGraw in The Dark Knight (2008)
Melinda McGraw in The Crossing (2018)
Jerry Seinfeld and Melinda McGraw in Seinfeld (1989)
Melinda McGraw in The X-Files (1993)
Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and Melinda McGraw in The X-Files (1993)

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Mad Men (2007)
Mad Men
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TV Series
  • Bobbie Barrett
Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Aaron Eckhart, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Cillian Murphy, and Chin Han in The Dark Knight (2008)
The Dark Knight
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  • Barbara Gordon
  • 2008
Men of a Certain Age (2009)
Men of a Certain Age
8.0
TV Series
  • Erin Riley
Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Dulé Hill, Moira Kelly, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, and Bradley Whitford in The West Wing (1999)
The West Wing
8.9
TV Series
  • Jane Braun

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  • Paul T. Goldman (2023)
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  • Melonie Diaz, Madeleine Mantock, and Sarah Jeffery in Charmed (2018)
    Charmed
  • Interrogation (2020)
    Interrogation
  • Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
    NCIS
  • For The People (2018)
    For The People
  • Damon Wayans and Seann William Scott in Lethal Weapon (2016)
    Lethal Weapon
  • Scott Bakula in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
    NCIS: New Orleans
  • The Crossing (2018)
    The Crossing
  • Kelsey Grammer, Matt Bomer, and Lily Collins in The Last Tycoon (2016)
    The Last Tycoon
  • Mackenzie Davis in Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town (2017)
    Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town
  • Outcast (2016)
    Outcast
  • Jennifer Beals in Proof (2015)
    Proof
  • Katherine Heigl in State of Affairs (2014)
    State of Affairs
  • The Stockwells
  • Gillian Anderson, Dermot Mulroney, James Lafferty, Rachael Taylor, Lance Gross, Max Schneider, Halston Sage, Stevie Lynn Jones, and Adam Scott Miller in Crisis (2014)
    Crisis

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  • Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell in Quantum Leap (1989)
    Quantum Leap
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Skateland
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Weather Girl
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    • October 25, 1963
    • Nicosia, Cyprus
    • Steve PiersonOctober 14, 2000 - present (1 child)
  • She acted in Friedrich Schiller's play, "Don Carlos", at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England with Michael Grandage, Reece Dinsdale, Virginia Greig, Ian McDiarmid, Adrian Ross Magenty and James Maxwell in the cast. Nicholas Hytner was the director.

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    Has a daughter named Lucy Grace Pierson with her husband Steve Pierson.
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    As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
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