Melanie Lynskey Overview

New Zealander Melanie Lynskey was chosen to play the lead in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994), co-starring Kate Winslet, when she was still in high school. When the movie came out, critics applauded her outstanding performance as a shy girl who becomes transformed when she makes friends with an outgoing girl, leading the two to plot to kill her mother when she tries to interfere with their relationship. Melanie moved to Los Angeles to audition for more films, but she didn't land another... See All