Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey ( born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress. Famous for her portrayals complex women and her knowledge of American dialects, she performs mostly in independent films. Lynskey has won two Critics Choice Awards, an HCA Award, a Gracie, a New Zealand Film Award, an Hollywood Film Award, and an Sundance Special Jury Award, and also Gotham, Satellite, Saturn, Golden Nymph, Independent Spirit, Screen Actors Guild and Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Lynskey's first screen appearance was in Heavenly Creatures (1994), in which she received the New Zealand Film Award as her performance of Pauline Parker, a teenage murderess. In the following years, she played in numerous international films which included Ever After (1998), Detroit Rock City, But I'm a Cheerleader The Cherry Orchard, Snakeskin (2001), Shooters, Abandon, Sweet Home Alabama (2/22/02). After her move to the United States, Lynskey became popular as a character actress who gained recognition for her mix of big-budget and small-scale film projects, such as Shattered Glass (2003), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Away We Go, Up in the Air, The Informant!, Leaves of Grass (all 2009), Win Win (2011) Finding A Friend for the final day of the World, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (both 2012) and They Came Together (2014), and Don't Turn Around (2021).
In 2012, Lynskey received critical acclaim and received a Gotham Award nomination for her leading role as a depressed divorcee The Big Ask (2012), which she starred in as a depressed divorcee in I Must Be Going, which proved to be the turning point of her career. Subsequent lead parts in The Big Ask (2013), Happy Christmas, We'll Never Have Paris, Goodbye to All That (all 2014), The Intervention, Rainbow Time, Little Boxes (all 2016), I Don't Feel at the Home of This World Anymore, And Then I Go (both 2017), Sadie (2018) and Lady of the Manor (2021) made her an important figure in the American independent film community
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