Melinda Clarke is an American actress with a $3 million fortune. In addition to Lady Heather on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2001-2011; 2015), Julie Cooper on “The O.C.” (2003-2007), and Helen “Amanda” Collins on “Nikita,” Clarke is best known for her roles as Faith Taylor on “Days of Our Lives” (1989-1990) and Helen “Amanda” Collins on “Nikita” (2010–2013).
Melinda has more than 50 acting credits, including roles in the movies Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993), Mulholland Falls (1996), and Spawn (1997) as well as the television series Heaven Help Us (1994), Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1997-1999),
The District (2002-2003), Entourage (2005-2011), The Vampire Diaries (2010; 2017), and Vegas (2013).
With Rachel Bilson, who portrayed Summer Roberts on “The O.C.,” Clarke started co-hosting the podcast “Welcome to the OC, Bitches!” in 2021. “Bustle” listed “Welcome to the OC, Bitches!” as one of the “7 Top Celebrity Podcasts You Should Subscribe To Right Now” in August 2021.
Melinda also contributed her voice to the video games “Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma” (2003) and “Nikita: Codebreaker” (2012), and she had an appearance in the Bryan Adams song “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman” music video (1995). On “TV Guide’s” list of “TV’s Top Ten Scene Stealers” in August 2005, she came in at number five.
Young Life
On April 24, 1969, Melinda Patrice Clarke was born in Dana Point, California. Joshua is Melinda’s brother, and she is the daughter of John Clarke, an actor, and Patricia Clarke, a ballet dancer.
Heidi, who was her sister, tragically passed away in 1994 due to a malignant heart tumour. John, who passed away in 2019, starred as Mickey Horton on “Days of Our Lives” from 1965 to 2004 and was a frequent actor in both cinema and television, having acted in over 30 different projects.
For this part, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 1979, and in 2004, he was given the Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Clarke participated in school plays and was a part of the theatre club while she was a student at Dana Hills High School. Melinda is a trained soprano who has also studied voice. After high school, she relocated to Los Angeles to focus solely on her acting career.
Melinda Clark’s Career
On the NBC soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” Clarke played Faith Taylor from 1989 to 1990. Melinda appeared in 130 episodes and her father, one of the seven original core cast members, was on the show.
She made a guest appearance on “Jake and the Fatman” in 1991, and after that, she acted in “Hot Under the Collar,” “Out for Blood,” and “Young Goodman Brown” (1992), (1993).
She won a “Fangoria” Chainsaw Award for her performance as Julie Walker in the zombie film “Return of the Living Dead 3” in 1993.
In 1994, Clarke also appeared as a guest on “The George Carlin Show” and as Lexy Monroe on the syndicated sitcom “Heaven Help Us.”
Aaron Spelling served as executive producer of the fantasy series, which also starred John Schneider and Ricardo Montalbán. Melinda made cameo appearances in the movies “Return to Two Moon Junction” (1995) and “Killer Tongue” (1996; she also portrayed a cigarette girl in the movie “Mulholland Falls” with Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, and Chris Penn).
The two characters that Clarke played in 1997—Jessica Priest in the superhero movie “Spawn” and Velasca on the television show “Xena: Warrior Princess”—would lead to the production of action figures for her (a role she played in just two episodes).
She also made appearances in “Critics and Other Freaks,” “Soldier of Fortune,” and guest starred on “Nash Bridges,” “Seinfeld,” and “Sliders” that year. Melinda appeared in 37 episodes of the syndicated action-adventure series “Soldier of Fortune, Inc.” from 1997 to 1999 as Margo Vincent.
In 2000, Clarke appeared as a guest performer on “The Pretender,” “Nash Bridges,” “Star Trek: Enterprise,” “Charmed,” “Everwood,” “Tremors,” and “Firefly.”
In 2001, she was cast in a recurring role as Lady Heather, a dominatrix on the CBS crime thriller “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”
Between 2001 and 2011, she made six appearances on the program. In 2015, she returned for the “CSI: Immortality” two-hour series finale.
Melinda featured in the movies “.com for Murder” (2002) and “Dynamite” around the same time as she played Detective Olivia Cahill in five episodes of the CBS police drama “The District” from 2002 to 2003, (2004).
She co-starred in the Fox adolescent drama “The O.C.” with Ben McKenzie, Mischa Barton, Adam Brody, and Rachel Bilson as Julie Cooper from 2003 to 2007.
Throughout the show’s four seasons and 92 episodes, audience reaction to Clarke’s character led to her promotion from guest star to series regular. She co-hosted the E! special “50 Most Wicked Women of Primetime” in 2004 alongside former “Dynasty” star Joan Collins, and from 2005 to 2011, she appeared in six episodes of HBO’s “Entourage” as a fictionalized version of herself.
Melinda made appearances in the television movies “She Drives Me Crazy” and “The Man” from 2007 as well as the shows “Reaper,” “Chuck,” “Eli Stone,” and “Ghost Whisperer.” She has recurring roles as Kelly Donovan on “The Vampire Diaries” and Helen “Amanda” Collins on The CW’s “Nikita” in 2010 and 2013 respectively.
Then, in 2013 and 2014, Clarke appeared in recurring roles as Lena Cavallo on the CBS historical drama “Vegas,” Tracey McKay on the TNT “Dallas” revival, and Grace Van Dahl on Fox’s Batman prequel series “Gotham” (2016). Additionally, she guest starred in the American-Swedish comedy series “Swedish Dicks” and made an appearance in the 2014 television film “How Divine!” (2018).
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Conclusion
Melinda and Ernie Mirich welcomed their daughter Catherine on January 4, 2000, after getting married on June 28, 1997. Clarke and Mirich separated in 2005, and on September 12, 2015, she wed Adam Farmer.
Nominations and Awards
For “Return of the Living Dead III,” Clarke won a “Fangoria” Chainsaw Award for Best Actress in 1993. The following year, at the Sitges – Catalan International Film Festival, she won Best Actress for “Killer Tongue.”
For “Days of Our Lives,” she was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 1990 for Best Young Actress in a Daytime Drama.
