Personal Info
Birth date
1963-10-25 (61 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Nicosia, Cyprus
Also known as
-Melinda McGraw
Biography
Melinda McGraw (born October 25, 1968) is an American actress. She has starred in movies such as The Dark Knight (2008), Wrongfully Accused (1998), and Skateland (2010), and is also known for her television performances on NCIS, Mad Men, Men of a Certain Age, The X-Files, The West Wing and The Commish. McGraw has starred in The Pursuit of Happiness (1995), Soul Man (1997–1998), Living in Captivity (1998), Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central) (2002), and Center of the Universe (2004). Notable guest appearances include Quantum Leap, Night Court, Seinfeld, Cybill, The Larry Sanders Show, Mad About You, The District, The Practice, and Inconceivable. She has been featured in four episodes of Desperate Housewives as Annabel Foster.
Filmography
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.64
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.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.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.Seinfeld
8.258
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.Bones
8.214
Overview:
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.The X-Files
8.377
Overview:
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.CSI: Miami
7.712
Overview:
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.NCIS: New Orleans
7.292
Overview:
A drama about the local field office that investigates criminal cases affecting military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence.Hawaii Five-0
7.754
Overview:
Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.Glee
6.765
Overview:
In this musical comedy, optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing the high school's glee club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential as they strive to outshine their singing competition while navigating the cruel halls of McKinley High.Desperate Housewives
7.917
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.The West Wing
8.3
Overview:
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.The Commish
7.12
Overview:
Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.Medium
7.461
Overview:
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.Mad Men
8.119
Overview:
Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.Mad About You
6.659
Overview:
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.Ghosts
7.89
Overview:
Samantha and Jay throw caution to the wind when they convert their recently inherited country estate into a bed-and-breakfast. Call it mislaid plans. Not only is the place falling apart, but it’s also inhabited by spirits of previous residents -- whom only Samantha can see and hear.Quantum Leap
8.031
Overview:
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.Night Court
7.352
Overview:
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.Harry's Law
7.3
Overview:
Harriet, Matthew and Malcolm couldn't be any more different, but when they cross paths, they realize they're all looking for a fresh start. The most unlikely of people are starting a law practice in the most unlikely of places -- a rundown shoe store.Scandal
7.14
Overview:
Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.Lethal Weapon
7.293
Overview:
A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.The Practice
7.7
Overview:
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”Millennium
7.654
Overview:
A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.The Dark Knight
8.52
Overview:
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.The District
6.8
Overview:
The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department.Love & War
6.2
Overview:
A woman running a bar in New York City while trying to maintain a romance with an egotistical opinion columnist.Men of a Certain Age
7.6
Overview:
Three male friends experience the changes and challenges of midlife.The Crossing
6.934
Overview:
Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother in search of her missing refugee daughter drive this allegory with a surprising conspiracy at the center.Acting
TBAUgly Cry as Unknown
2023Paul T. Goldman (6 Episodes) as Audrey Munson
2021Ghosts (1 Episode) as Diane
2020Interrogation (4 Episodes) as Faith Turner
2018Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town as Mrs. Percy
2018The Crossing (3 Episodes) as Dr. Greta Pryor
2018For The People (1 Episode) as Allison's Mother
2016Lethal Weapon (3 Episodes) as Cynthia Hahn
2014NCIS: New Orleans (1 Episode) as Gina Powell
2014Delirium as Lydia
2014Delirium (1 Episode) as Lydia
2014Crisis (4 Episodes) as First Lady Devore
2012Ben and Kate (2 Episodes) as Vera Everson
2012Scandal (1 Episode) as Debora Clarkson
2011Skateland as Debbie Wheeler
2011Harry's Law (4 Episodes) as Amanda
2010Hawaii Five-0 (1 Episode) as Patricia Slater
2010Pleading Guilty as Elise Malloy
2010Meeting Spencer as Didi Ravenal
2009Men of a Certain Age (12 Episodes) as Erin Riley
2009Hank (5 Episodes) as Tilly Pryor
2009Weather Girl as Virginia
2009Glee (1 Episode) as Clara Banks
2008The Dark Knight as Barbara Gordon
2008Gotham Tonight (1 Episode) as Barbara Gordon
2007Journeyman (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2007Saving Grace (1 Episode) as Unknown
2007Mad Men (5 Episodes) as Bobbie Barrett
2005Close to Home (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005Bones (1 Episode) as Gayle Seaver
2005Medium (1 Episode) as Sondra Hahn-Barker
2004Center of the Universe (15 Episodes) as Lily Barnett
2004Desperate Housewives (3 Episodes) as Annabel Foster
2003NCIS (4 Episodes) as Diane Sterling
2002CSI: Miami (1 Episode) as Unknown
2002Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central) (6 Episodes) as Lindsay Urich
2000The District (3 Episodes) as Vicky Montgomery
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1 Episode) as Mrs. Griffin
2000Nutty Professor II: The Klumps as Leanne Guilford
1999The West Wing (4 Episodes) as Jane Braun
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Samantha Copeland
1998Living in Captivity (13 Episodes) as Becca Merrik
1998Wrongfully Accused as Cass Lake
1997House of Frankenstein (2 Episodes) as Detective Maggie Delbo
1997Ally McBeal (1 Episode) as Nancy Gower
1997The Practice (1 Episode) as Unknown
1997Albino Alligator as Jenny Ferguson
1996Millennium (1 Episode) as Dr. Stoller
1995The Pursuit of Happiness (13 Episodes) as Unknown
1993The X-Files (4 Episodes) as Melissa Scully
1992Mad About You (1 Episode) as Cheryl Gendelman
1992Love & War (1 Episode) as Colleen
1992The Human Factor (8 Episodes) as Rebecca Travis
1991The Commish (72 Episodes) as Unknown
1989Seinfeld (1 Episode) as Angela
1989Quantum Leap (1 Episode) as Salvation Army Captain Laura Downey
1984Night Court (1 Episode) as Wendy