Personal Info
Birth date
1959-10-21 (65 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
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Also known as
Melora Walters Scotellaro
Melora Williams
メローラ・ウォルターズ
ملورا والترز
Melora Walters
Biography
Melora Walters (born October 21, 1959) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring roles as Wanda Henrickson in the television series Big Love and Kathy Kone in PEN15, and has appeared in several Paul Thomas Anderson films.
Filmography
The Wonder Years
8.317
Overview:
The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.936
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.NCIS
7.623
Overview:
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.639
Overview:
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.Seinfeld
8.26
Overview:
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.The Mentalist
8.361
Overview:
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.Desperate Housewives
7.916
Overview:
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.FBI
7.901
Overview:
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.Walker, Texas Ranger
7
Overview:
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.Californication
7.651
Overview:
A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.Dear John
5.7
Overview:
Dear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is dumped by his wife, Wendy, via a Dear John letter. Wendy ends up with everything in the divorce settlement, including custody of the couple's son, forcing John to move into an apartment in Ozone Park, Queens. John soon joins the One-2-One Club, a self help group for divorced, widowed or lonely people. The group is led by Louise (Jane Carr), a sex-obsessed British woman. Other members of the group include Kate McCarron (Isabella Hofmann), a sweet divorcée; Kirk Morris (Jere Burns), a cocky ladies' man; Ralph Drang (Harry Groener), a shy and neurotic tollbooth collector; Bonnie Philbert (Billie Bird), a feisty senior citizen; and Tom, Mrs. Philbert's quiet boyfriend (Tom Willett).The OA
7.522
Overview:
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.Dream On
6.885
Overview:
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.Big Love
6.9
Overview:
The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.PEN15
8.3
Overview:
Middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen.L.A. Doctors
7
Overview:
Four Los Angeles doctors run a practice in this drama that focuses as much on the problems in the American medical system as it does on the patients.Threat Matrix
6
Overview:
Against the rising threat, the Homeland Security Agency has created a highly specialized, elite task force trained and equipped to counter anyone or anything that threatens our nation. The head of this super-secret team is Special Agent John Kilmer. He reports only to the President and has authority to call upon the technical skills, firepower and the specialist agents of the FBI, CIA and NSA.Nash Bridges
6.7
Overview:
Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.Venom
6.828
Overview:
Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful alien symbiote. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.American Gigolo
6.8
Overview:
Julian Kaye has always been an object of desire, so much so that people are willing to destroy him in order to have him. Exonerated, after 15 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, he now faces the challenge of picking up the pieces as the detective who put him behind bars tries to unravel the mystery that led to his wrongful incarceration.Bakersfield P.D.
8
Overview:
Bakersfield P.D. is a short-lived American television comedy series that aired on the Fox network in 1993-94. The show was based in the police department of the city of Bakersfield, California. It was shot with naturalistic lighting and without a laugh track. Fox canceled the show after one season, citing low ratings. The cable channel Trio reran the show under its "Brilliant But Cancelled" umbrella.Brooklyn South
9.7
Overview:
An American ensemble police drama series following the life of police officers from the 74th Precinct in southern Brooklyn, New York City.Roseanne
6.804
Overview:
A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.Dead Poets Society
8.301
Overview:
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.The Butterfly Effect
7.579
Overview:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.Cold Mountain
6.9
Overview:
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.Magnolia
7.728
Overview:
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.Boogie Nights
7.631
Overview:
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.The Master
7.1
Overview:
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.Eraser
6.072
Overview:
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.Acting
2025The Idea as Unknown
2022Where Are You as Edith
2022American Gigolo (3 Episodes) as Maryanne Henderson
2022Offseason as Ava Aldrich
2021The Accursed as Naida
2021Hard Luck Love Song as Gypsy Sally
2021Far More as Evie Flores
2020Pink Skies Ahead as Hayley
2020The Pale Door as Maria
2019Adeline, the Great as Unknown
2019Drowning as Rose
2019Robert the Bruce as Ylfa
2019Beneath The Leaves as Rose
2019PEN15 (25 Episodes) as Kathy Kone
2018In a Relationship as Mia Ziniti
2018The Amaranth as Lily Kendrick
2018Cam as Lynne
2018Venom as Homeless Woman Maria
2018FBI (1 Episode) as Evelyn Adams
2018Doubting Thomas as Kate
2017Odious as Beatrice
2017The Lovers as Lucy
2017Good After Bad as Victoria Ackerman
2016The OA (1 Episode) as Melody
2016Sugar Mountain as Tracey Huxley
2016Indiscretion as Dr. Harper
2015Sacrifice as Enid
2015Sex, Death and Bowling as Evie
2014The Young Kieslowski as Barbara Kieslowski
2013Short Term 12 as Dr. Hendler
2013Underdogs as Nancy Smith-Burkett
2013Lonely Boy as Betsy
2012Mary as Mary
2012The Master as Band (Voice)
2012Missing Pieces as Delia Greenly
2011The River Murders as Agent Glover
2010Love Ranch as Janelle
2010Shit Year as Shelly
2010Case 219 as Victoria Lash
2009Hurt as Helen Coltrane
2008The Mentalist (1 Episode) as Amber
2008Black Crescent Moon as Katelan Beacon
2008Harrison Montgomery as Margo Fleming
2007Californication (1 Episode) as Lisa
2007Brothers Three: An American Gothic as Loren
2006Big Love (43 Episodes) as Wanda Henrickson
2006Dead Poets: A Look Back as Unknown
2004Desperate Housewives (2 Episodes) as Sylvia Greene
2004The Butterfly Effect as Andrea Treborn
2003Cold Mountain as Lila
2003Melvin Goes to Dinner as Trenice (uncredited)
2003NCIS (1 Episode) as Susan Elizabeth Lowe
2003Threat Matrix (16 Episodes) as Lia 'Lark' Larkin
2003Matchstick Men as Heather (uncredited)
2003The Big Empty as Candy
2002WiseGirls as Kate
2002Desert Saints as Bennie Harper
2001Speaking of Sex as Melinda
2001Rain as Ellen Biddle
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1 Episode) as Sage
2000That Moment: Magnolia Diary as Self
1999Magnolia as Claudia Wilson Gator
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Laurel Linwood
1998Twice Upon a Time as Alannah Merribone
1998L.A. Doctors (19 Episodes) as Felicity
1997Boogie Nights as Jessie St. Vincent
1997Brooklyn South (1 Episode) as Carly
1997Los Locos as Allison
1996American Strays as Cindy
1996Eraser as Darleen
1996Hard Eight as Jimmy's Girl
1996Nash Bridges (1 Episode) as Unknown
1994Ed Wood as Secretary #2
1994Midnight Run for Your Life as Lorna Bellstratton
1994All Tied Up as Bliss
1994Dead Man's Revenge as Bunny
1994Cabin Boy as Trina
1993Twenty Bucks as The Stripper / Funeral Director
1993Bakersfield P.D. (1 Episode) as Marnie Archer
1993Walker, Texas Ranger (1 Episode) as Star
1993Telling Secrets as Karen Blake
1993America's Deadliest Home Video as Gloria
1992Beethoven as Pet Shop Owner
1990Dream On (1 Episode) as Dina
1990How to Murder a Millionaire as Ginger
1989Rude Awakening as Punky (uncredited)
1989Seinfeld (1 Episode) as Jane
1989Dead Poets Society as Gloria
1988Roseanne (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1988Dear John (1 Episode) as Maria
1988Staring at the Dark as Unknown
1988The Wonder Years (1 Episode) as Waitress
Directing
2019Drowning ... Director
2018The Lover in the Attic: A True Story ... Director
2018Waterlily Jaguar ... Director