Melanie Neilan
Acting
Biography
Melanie Neilan is an American stage, film and television actress, singer and ballet dancer.
Place of Birth: Highland Park, Illinois, USA
Known For
NCIS: Los Angeles
The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is a drama about the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue of Americans who find themselves in danger while abroad.
Princess Cyd
High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at the opportunity. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.
Henry Gamble's Birthday Party
Unfolding over the course of one very eventful day in his life, at 17-year-old preacher’s kid Henry's afternoon birthday pool party, the guests include an assortment of grown-ups from the family church, as well as Henry’s secular and religious teen friends — including the closeted young Logan, who clearly has eyes for Henry.
Things Beauty Burn
An Afro-Russian teenager must make a life or death decision after having his first sexual encounter with a white Russian pastor's daughter.
Zoe's Dumpling Crisis
16-year-old Zoe enlists the help of her two grandmothers, one Russian and the other Turkish, for a school cooking project. As the grandmother's rivalry escalates, Zoe wishes she hadn't bothered to ask them in the first place. The need for culturally identity clashes with the kneading of dough, and Zoe soon realizes how important both of her grandmothers are to her - and that sometimes the way into people's hearts is through their stomachs.
Purgatory
When faced with discharge, a psychiatric patient is ambivalent about returning to the real world.
Bath Salt
A teenage cancer survivor learns her friend from the hospital has died.
The Book of Leah
The Book of Leah is a coming of age story, a drama about love, culture, and above all a witness to history.
Filmography
as Zoe
as Mia
as Inna
as Literary Conference Dinner Guest
as Laney
as Felicia Pope
as Christine
as Mina Raducan
as Miriam Siegal