Melanie is an actor and producer who divides her time between Toronto and Vancouver. Born and raised in Montreal, she is fluently bilingual and enjoys performing in both french and english.

Melanie recently shot the feature film Rain Down in Ashcroft, BC. She plays supporting lead, Barbara Light.

Other recent credits include: the role of Agatha on Psych, and Wendy in Sook-Yin Lee's Year of the Carnivore which premiered at TIFF in 2009 and continues to play the festival circuit. It will have its theatrical release in summer 2010.

Past credits include: Lani Shipman on The L Word, and two episodes of Red Letter Films' docudrama series Eaux Troubles du Crime. She also played Sam on CBC's radio drama Swimming to China in August 2008. Melanie co-produced watermarked, a short film that screened at the Montreal World Film Festival in August 2008. She plays the lead role of Cynthia in it.

Melanie has done commercials for: Air Canada, American Cancer Society ("More Birthdays") directed by Mike Mills, Time Warner, Huggies, VANOC, A&W, Mattel, London Drugs, Target and many more.

She is a Jessie Richardson Award nominee (2002), and the winner of the Okanagan Film Festival's Craft Award for Excellence in Acting (2005).