Melanie Mayron

Melanie Joy Mayron (born October 20, 1952) is an American actress and director of film and television. Mayron is best known for portraying the role of 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. In 2018, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Mayron for her outstanding contributions to film and television. 
Personal life.
Mayron was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Norma (née Goodman), a real estate agent, and David Mayron, a pharmaceutical chemist. Her family is Jewish; Mayron's father is from a Sephardic background (the original surname was "Mizrahi"), while her mother is of Russian descent. She trained as an actress at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In 1998, she and her chemist father developed a line of skincare products for babies and adults called Mayron's Goods.
Mayron was in a long-term relationship with screenwriter and producer Cynthia Mort, with whom she shared co-parenting of their two children.
Career.
Mayron appeared in the 1974 film "Harry and Tonto", the 1976 movies "Gable and Lombard" and "Car Wash", and the 1977 films "The Great Smokey Roadblock" and "You Light Up My Life", and starred in 1978's "Girlfriends". In the mid-1970s, she played Brenda Morgenstern's best friend, Sandy Franks, on three episodes of the sitcom "Rhoda". In 1982, she played Terry Simon, the photographer, in director Costa-Gavras' political drama "Missing".
In 1988, she co-wrote and co-produced the comedy film "Sticky Fingers". In 1995, Mayron directed "The Baby-Sitters Club", a film based upon the book series of the same name. She also directed the television movie "Toothless" (1997) starring Kirstie Alley and the movie "Slap Her... She's French" (2002), starring Piper Perabo (which appeared on television as "She Gets What She Wants"). In 2006, she appeared as a judge in the reality show "Looking for Stars" on the Starz! channel.
She also directed episodes of "thirtysomething", as well as episodes for shows such as "In Treatment", "The Fosters", "Providence", "Dawson's Creek", "Ed", "State of Grace", "Nash Bridges", "Wasteland", "Tell Me You Love Me" and "The Naked Brothers Band"; the latter series was created and ran by Mayron's former "thirtysomething" co-star Polly Draper.
In 2015, she directed and released on YouTube "The Living Room Sessions", a collection of videos of up-and-coming musical artists performing acoustic sets in her living room.
Mayron has directed an episode of the Netflix original series "GLOW", an episode of "SEAL Team", an episode of "The Enemy Within", and multiple episodes of the 2018 "Charmed" reboot, as well as "Jane the Virgin".
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