
Melora Hardin
Acting
Biography
Melora Hardin (born June 29, 1967) is an American actress known for her roles as Jan Levinson on NBC's The Office, Trudy Monk on USA Network's Monk, and Tammy Cashman on Amazon Prime Video's Transparent, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Hardin starred as magazine editor-in-chief Jacqueline Carlyle on the Freeform comedy-drama The Bold Type, which aired from June 2017 to June 2021.
Born: June 29, 1967
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA
Known For

The Office
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.

Friends
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.

Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing is a 1988 television series on the CBS network. It is based on the film Dirty Dancing but had none of the original cast or staff. It stars Patrick Cassidy as Johnny and Melora Hardin as Baby. The show only lasted half a season, before it was canceled in January 1989 due to low ratings.

Tour of Duty
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.

Quantum Leap
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.

Monk
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.

Monk
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.

Little House on the Prairie
When the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their life on the farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s is full of adventure, tragedy, and triumph. Based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Gilmore Girls
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.

Boston Legal
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.
Filmography
as Trudy Monk
as Dr. Elizabeth Simmons
as Emilia Bloom
as Officer Sacks
as Tammy Cashman
as Grace
as Patricia
as Rita
as Jacqueline Carlyle
as Judy
as Tammy Cashman
as Nancy Palmer
as Isabella Stone
as Pam
as Shelley Meyers
as Mary Andrews
as Jane
as Mary
as Miranda
as Lorelai
as Principal Jane Masterson
as Emma
as Self
as Maureen
as Barb Fields
as Gertrude Bloch
as Marcia Carpenter
as Ruth Keene
as Diane
as Self - Guest
as Interviewer
as Self - Contestant
as Self - Audience Member
as Jan Levinson
as Linda Evans
as Sharon Brant
as Summer Rossner
as Erin Toner
as Carol
as Pamela Seaver
as Wendy Colton
as Trudy Monk
as Trudy Monk / Cameron
as Cheryl Lynn Brinkmeyer
as Sports Book Manager
as Carolyn Bates
as Laura
as Claire Poulet
as Rosalie Leavitt
as Mary Beth
as Patsy Ramsey (voice
as Clyde
as Christy Sullivan
as Gina Vitelli
as Wendy Dawson
as Jill Hallman
as Beth
as Celia
as Elizabeth Chamberlain
as Sasha Leon Hoffner
as Savannah Bellows
as POX Publicist Melanie Cooper
as Molly Flynn
as Robin Banks
as Teresa
as South Seas Singer
as Sandy Thomas
as Cathy
as Monica
as Abagail Fuller
as Frances 'Baby' Kellerman
as Christine Pierson
as Whitney Dunbar
as Janette
as Lisa Swift
as Katie
as Cindy Warrick
as Michele Pierson
as Nancy Perkins
as Brooke Hayward, age 11 (uncredited)
as Amy Warner
as Carmel
as Courtney Chenault
as Cindy Prescott
as Amanda
as Belinda Stevens
as Amy Warner
as Self