Melora Walters
Highest Rated: 93% Cam (2018)
Lowest Rated: 17% Sex, Death and Bowling (2015)
Birthday: Oct 21, 1960
Birthplace: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
A quirky blonde actress capable of projecting a diamond hardness or intense fragility, Melora Walters has enjoyed her best screen roles (to date) in collaboration with writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. The actress made her first screen appearance in "Dead Poets Society" (1989) and then segued to a recurring role as a pal of the title character on the ABC sitcom "Roseanne" in 1990. Several small roles followed in films ranging from big studio fare (e.g., "Beethoven" 1992) to low-budget indies (i.e., "Twenty Bucks" 1993) to the in-between ("Ed Wood" 1994). She had perhaps her widest exposure as the unlikely love interest of Chris Elliott in the disastrous "Cabin Boy" (1994). Anderson rescued her from these roles which did little to tap into her capabilities when he cast her as the floozy who hooks up with Samuel L. Jackson in "Hard Eight/Sydney" (1997). The writer-director subsequently created the roles of a porn star married to another adult film actor (Don Cheadle) in "Boogie Nights" (1997) and a high-strung drug abuser who finds romance with a cop in "Magnolia" (1999). The latter role especially allowed Walters to cut loose as she traversed a gamut of emotions. Her relationship with John C. Reilly formed the center of the film and she got to deliver the line that inspired the film, "Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing me again?" Walters memorable work in the film was often cited for praise, even by those reviewers who had reservations about the film as a whole.
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Melora Walters
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet |
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Where Are You | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
68% |
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Offseason | Ava Aldrich (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet |
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The Accursed | Naida (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet |
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Attention Attention | Self | - | 2021 |
37% |
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Hard Luck Love Song | Gypsy Sally (Character) | $62.6K | 2020 |
48% |
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The Pale Door | Maria (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Drowning | Rose (Character) | - | 2019 |
43% |
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Robert the Bruce | Ylfa (Character) | - | 2019 |
20% |
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Beneath the Leaves | Rose (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Waterlily Jaguar |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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The Amaranth | Lily Kendrick (Character) | - | 2018 |
93% |
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Cam | Lynne (Character) | - | 2018 |
60% |
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In a Relationship | Mia Ziniti (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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The Lover in the Attic: A True Story | Director | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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Doubting Thomas | Kate (Character) | - | 2018 |
30% |
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Venom | Maria (Character) | $213.5M | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good After Bad | Victoria (Character) | - | 2017 |
82% |
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The Lovers | Lucy (Character) | $2.2M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Not a Stranger | Jill Madden (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
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Indiscretion | Harper (Character) | - | 2016 |
36% |
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Sugar Mountain | Tracey Huxley (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sacrifice | Enid (Character) | - | 2015 |
17% |
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Sex, Death and Bowling | Evie (Character) | $5.2K | 2015 |
56% |
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The Young Kieslowski | Barbara Kieslowski (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
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Lonely Boy | Betsy (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Underdogs | Nancy Smith-Burkett (Character) | $33.9K | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Missing Pieces | Delia (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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The River Murders | Agent Glover (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Case 219 | Victoria Lash (Character) | - | 2010 |
33% |
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S... Year | Shelly (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Hurt | Helen Coltrane (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harrison Montgomery | Margo Fleming (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Brothers Three: An American Gothic | Loren (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rain | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
34% |
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The Butterfly Effect | Andrea Treborn (Character) | $57.7M | 2004 |
67% |
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The Big Empty | Candy (Character) | - | 2003 |
70% |
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Cold Mountain | Lila (Character) | $95.6M | 2003 |
44% |
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Wisegirls | Kate (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Speaking of Sex | Melinda (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Rain | Ellen Biddle (Character) | $453.5K | 2001 |
29% |
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Desert Saints | Bennie Harper (Character) | - | 2000 |
82% |
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Magnolia | Claudia Wilson Gator (Character) | $22.5M | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twice Upon a Time | Alannah Merribone (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Los Locos | Allison (Character) | - | 1997 |
82% |
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Hard Eight | Jimmy's Girl (Character) | $215.6K | 1996 |
43% |
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Eraser | Darleen (Character) | $101.3M | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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American Strays | Cindy (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Midnight Run: Midnight Run for Your Life | Lorna Bellstratton (Character) | - | 1994 |
48% |
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Cabin Boy | Trina (Character) | $3.5M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | America's Deadliest Home Video | Gloria (Character) | - | 1993 |
75% |
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Twenty Bucks |
The Stripper/ |
$30.7K | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How to Murder a Millionaire | Unknown (Character) | - | 1990 |
TV
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78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Laurel Linwood (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 83% | NCIS | Susan Elizabeth Lowe (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 90% | The Mentalist | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
68% | 71% | Rake | Jan Falcon (Guest Star) | 2014 |
61% | 84% | Franklin & Bash | Joan Ackermann (Guest Star) | 2012 |
57% | 78% | Californication | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
80% | 82% | Big Love | Wanda Henrickson (Character) | 2006-2007 2009-2010 |
72% | 88% | Desperate Housewives | Sylvia Greene (Guest Star) | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 80% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
33% | No Score Yet | Threat Matrix | Agent Anne "Lark" Larken (Character) | 2003-2004 |
50% | No Score Yet | Push, Nevada |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | L.A. Doctors | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998-1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Incident | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nash Bridges | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
83% | 93% | NYPD Blue | Holly Snyder (Guest Star) | 1995 |
82% | 92% | Picket Fences | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Marshal | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
89% | 92% | Seinfeld | Jane (Guest Star) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear John | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Wonder Years | Waitress (Guest Star) | 1991 |
76% | 78% | Roseanne | Debbie (Guest Star) | 1990 |