Melora Walters

ActorDirectorWriterProducerProduction Oct 21 (age 66) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia 1988–2025 (37 year career)

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Biography

Melora Walters (born October 21, 1959) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring roles as Wanda Henrickson in the television series Big Love and Kathy Kone in PEN15, and has appeared in several Paul Thomas Anderson films.

Known For

Film

Dead Poets Society

Gloria

Film

The Butterfly Effect

Andrea Treborn

Film

Venom

Homeless Woman Maria

Film

Magnolia

Claudia Wilson Gator

Film

Boogie Nights

Jessie St. Vincent

Film

Ed Wood

Secretary #2

Film

The Master

Band (Voice)

Film

Short Term 12

Dr. Hendler

Filmography

Acting (95)

Movies (72)

Situations

2025

as Brianne

The Idea

Offseason

as Ava Aldrich

Where Are You

as Edith

Far More

as Evie Flores

The Accursed

as Naida

Hard Luck Love Song

as Gypsy Sally

Pink Skies Ahead

as Hayley

The Pale Door

as Maria

Robert the Bruce

as Ylfa

Beneath the Leaves

as Rose

Drowning

as Rose

Adeline, the Great

Venom

as Homeless Woman Maria

Cam

as Lynne

In a Relationship

as Mia Ziniti

The Amaranth

as Lily Kendrick

Doubting Thomas

as Kate

Good After Bad

as Victoria Ackerman

The Lovers

as Lucy

Odious

as Beatrice

Indiscretion

as Dr. Harper

Sugar Mountain

as Tracey Huxley

Sex, Death and Bowling

as Evie

Sacrifice

as Enid

The Young Kieslowski

as Barbara Kieslowski

6.8

Underdogs

2013

as Nancy Smith-Burkett

Short Term 12

as Dr. Hendler

Lonely Boy

as Betsy

The Master

as Band (Voice)

Mary

as Mary

Missing Pieces

as Delia Greenly

The River Murders

as Agent Glover

Shit Year

as Shelly

Love Ranch

as Janelle

Case 219

as Victoria Lash

Hurt

as Helen Coltrane

Black Crescent Moon

as Katelan Beacon

Harrison Montgomery

as Margo Fleming

Brothers Three: An American Gothic

2007

as Loren

3.3

Dead Poets: A Look Back

The Butterfly Effect

as Andrea Treborn

Cold Mountain

as Lila

Matchstick Men

as Heather (uncredited)

7.0

The Big Empty

2003

as Candy

6.1

Melvin Goes to Dinner

2003

as Trenice (uncredited)

Desert Saints

as Bennie Harper

WiseGirls

as Kate

Rain

as Ellen Biddle

Speaking of Sex

as Melinda

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

2000

as Self

7.6

Magnolia

1999

as Claudia Wilson Gator

Twice Upon a Time

as Alannah Merribone

Boogie Nights

as Jessie St. Vincent

Hard Eight

as Jimmy's Girl

Los Locos

as Allison

Eraser

as Darleen

American Strays

as Cindy

Dead Man's Revenge

as Bunny

Ed Wood

as Secretary #2

Midnight Run for Your Life

1994

as Lorna Bellstratton

All Tied Up

as Bliss

Cabin Boy

as Trina

Telling Secrets

as Karen Blake

Twenty Bucks

as The Stripper / Funeral Director

5.7

America's Deadliest Home Video

as Gloria

Beethoven

as Pet Shop Owner

How to Murder a Millionaire

as Ginger

Dead Poets Society

as Gloria

Rude Awakening

as Punky (uncredited)

4.5

Staring at the Dark

1988

Crooks

as Blanche

Television (23)

American Gigolo

2022

as Maryanne Henderson

PEN15

as Kathy Kone

FBI

as Evelyn Adams

The OA

as Melody

Franklin & Bash

as Joan Ackermann

The Mentalist

as Amber

Californication

as Lisa

Big Love

as Wanda Henrickson

Desperate Housewives

as Sylvia Greene

NCIS

as Susan Elizabeth Lowe

7.6

Threat Matrix

2003

as Lia 'Lark' Larkin

6.0

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000

as Sage

7.6

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Laurel Linwood

L.A. Doctors

as Felicity

Brooklyn South

as Carly

Nash Bridges

as Flo

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Star

Bakersfield P.D.

as Marnie Archer

Dream On

as Dina

Seinfeld

as Jane

The Wonder Years

as Waitress

Dear John

as Maria

Roseanne

Crew (7)

Movies (7)

Drowning

Director

Drowning

Writer

Waterlily Jaguar

Director

Waterlily Jaguar

Producer

Waterlily Jaguar

Writer

The Lover in the Attic: A True Story

Director

Missing Pieces

Associate Producer