Melanie Mayron

Melanie Mayron is an American actress and director of film and television. She is best known for her role as photographer Melissa Steadman on the ABC drama thirtysomething, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mayron trained as an actress at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has appeared in films such as Harry and Tonto (1974) and The Heartbreak Kid (1976). Mayron's outstanding contributions to film and television were recognized by the Santa Fe Film Festival in 2018. She has also worked as a director, and was in a long-term relationship with screenwriter and producer Cynthia Mort, with whom she has two children.