Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born May 16, 1977) is a New Zealand actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women and her command of American dialects, she works predominantly in independent films. Lynskey is the recipient of two Critics' Choice Awards, a HCA Award, a Gracie, a New Zealand Film Award, a Hollywood Film Award, and a Sundance Special Jury Award, as well as Gotham, Satellite, Saturn, Golden Nymph, Independent Spirit, Screen Actors Guild, and Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.07 |
| Birthday | 1977-05-16 |
| Place of Birth | New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand |
| Also Known As | ملانی لینسکی, Melanie Jayne Lynskey, |
1994
Heavenly Creatures
6.968/1047
Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy an...
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Heavenly Creatures
2006
Flags of Our Fathers
6.855/2047
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the s...
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Flags of Our Fathers
1996
The Frighteners
6.966/1786
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the r...
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The Frighteners
2000
But I'm a Cheerleader
7.079/861
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy wit...
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But I'm a Cheerleader
2009
Up in the Air
6.899/4065
Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million f...
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Up in the Air
2009
The Informant!
6.152/993
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-...
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The Informant!
2000
Coyote Ugly
6.257/2300
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sid...
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Coyote Ugly
1998
EverAfter
7.454/1599
Danielle, a vibrant young woman, was forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother, Rodmilla, i...
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EverAfter
2009
Leaves of Grass
6/469
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
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Leaves of Grass
1999
Detroit Rock City
6.762/461
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal...
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Detroit Rock City
2003
Shattered Glass
6.981/482
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications...
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Shattered Glass
2008
Show of Hands
6.7/3
Jess is a solo mother and reluctant parking warden. Tom is a self-obsessed greetings cards salesman with an addiction to competitions who will do anyt...
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Show of Hands
2003
Claustrophobia
4/4
A serial killer armed with a crossbow pistol is murdering people from their own rooftops. When three young coworkers at a poorly-attended slumber part...
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Claustrophobia
2006
Park
4.929/28
Park takes place all in one day in a public park in Los Angeles, as 11 disaffected Angelenos find both love and loss in unexpected ways
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Park
2010
Helena from the Wedding
4.125/8
Newlyweds Alex and Alice host a New Year's Eve party for their closest friends at a remote cabin in the mountains. However, when an unexpected guest s...
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Helena from the Wedding
2002
Abandon
4.852/183
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a t...
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Abandon
2008
A Quiet Little Marriage
5.1/7
A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all...
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A Quiet Little Marriage
2013
A Kiwi Legend
0/0
Change is afoot in New Zealand as creative forces take on the ultimate Kiwi icon. But all is not well in paradise, and the nation is divided. Whilst s...
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A Kiwi Legend
2012
Hello I Must Be Going
5.909/149
An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce.
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Hello I Must Be Going
2011
Touchback
6.6/120
A former high-school football star loses his shot at a college scholarship due to a devastating gridiron injury, but gets a second chance at living hi...
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Touchback
2011
Win Win
6.823/564
When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns...
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Win Win
2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
7.8/11335
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2001
Snakeskin
5.444/9
A hitchhiker takes two kids on the ride of their dreams, but they soon learn that their newfound hero is just as capable of delivering nightmares.
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Snakeskin
2012
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
6.566/2274
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school...
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2006
Say Uncle
5.368/19
A young gay artist, desperate to replace the relationship he had with his recently relocated godson, is targeted by a neighborhood mom as a potential...
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Say Uncle
2012
Putzel
1/1
For Walter, a young man endearingly known as "Putzel," life literally doesn't go beyond his neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Walter's...
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Putzel
2012
Eye of the Hurricane
7.3/3
An Everglades community struggles to put their lives back together in the wake of a hurricane.
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Eye of the Hurricane
2004
The Nearly Unadventurous Life of Zoe Cadwaulder
4/5
Romantic dark comedy sees phobia-riddled Zoe Cadwaulder overcoming her fears and discovering true love.
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The Nearly Unadventurous Life of Zoe Cadwaulder
2014
They Came Together
5.55/457
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
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They Came Together
2014
The Big Ask
5/11
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anythin...
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The Big Ask
2014
We'll Never Have Paris
4.783/106
Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propo...
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We'll Never Have Paris
2014
Happy Christmas
5.07/178
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
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Happy Christmas
2014
Goodbye to All That
4.926/61
Otto Wall is just a little unlucky in life, and unbeknownst to him, in love. When his wife suddenly asks for a divorce, he bounces between a search fo...
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Goodbye to All That
2014
Chu and Blossom
4/1
A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.
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Chu and Blossom
2015
Digging for Fire
5.213/160
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and...
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Digging for Fire
2016
The Intervention
5.869/176
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on th...
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The Intervention
2016
The Great & The Small
6.1/17
Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes. He attempts to na...
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The Great & The Small
2009
Away We Go
6.664/642
Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide...
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Away We Go
2025
Griffin in Summer
6.917/12
Griffin is the most ambitious playwright of his generation. He's also fourteen years old. When his mom hires a handsome 25-year-old handyman, Griffin'...
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Griffin in Summer
2016
Rainbow Time
5.295/22
Todd grew up under the strange shadow of his older mentally challenged brother Shonzi. As kids, Shonzi forced Todd to make action movies. As adults he...
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Rainbow Time
2016
Folk Hero & Funny Guy
5.2/16
Two artistically inclined childhood friends, a comedian and a folk-rocker respectively, set out on a tour together in hopes of regaining their "mojo"...
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Folk Hero & Funny Guy
2017
Little Boxes
6.2/67
It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black...
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Little Boxes
2007
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
5.528/53
High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Commi...
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee
2002
Sweet Home Alabama
6.427/1749
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—incl...
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Sweet Home Alabama
2017
1 Mile To You
6.486/220
After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He...
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1 Mile To You
2017
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
6.56/1421
When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon f...
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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
2017
The Changeover
5.639/54
Laura Chant, 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Ze...
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The Changeover
2017
XX
5.026/467
This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
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XX
2017
And Then I Go
6.3/48
In the cruel world of junior high, Edwin suffers in a state of anxiety and alienation alongside his only friend, Flake. Misunderstood by their familie...
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And Then I Go
2018
Sadie
6.889/18
While her father is away serving in the military, Sadie battles to preserve his place on the home front when her mother takes an interest in the newes...
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Sadie
2002
Shooters
5.478/23
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to h...
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Shooters
1999
The Cherry Orchard
5/8
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate aft...
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The Cherry Orchard
2001
Foreign Correspondents
7/2
Equal parts romance, fable, ghost story, character study, and cinematic puzzle, Foreign Correspondents ties two seemingly unrelated stories together i...
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Foreign Correspondents
2015
Behind Over the Garden Wall
0/0
A special look at the making of Patrick McHale's award winning miniseries Over the Garden Wall.
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Behind Over the Garden Wall
2021
Don't Look Up
7.059/9503
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
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Don't Look Up
2021
Lady of the Manor
5.6/56
Past and present collide when aimless slacker Hannah gets hired to portray Lady Wadsworth -- a Southern belle from the 1800s -- for tours at Wadsworth...
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Lady of the Manor
2024
The Making of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
0/0
Cast and crew discuss the making of Sky Studios' The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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The Making of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2011
Helena from the Wedding: Cast Interviews
0/0
On-set interviews with the cast of Helena from the Wedding (2010).
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Helena from the Wedding: Cast Interviews
2026
Don't Say Good Luck
0/0
Sophie Birenbaum is ready for the spotlight as the lead in her high school musical — until suddenly she’s living with even more drama at home than on...
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Don't Say Good Luck
2025
Pike River
6.389/9
In the aftermath of an explosion that rocked the Pike River Mine and took the lives of 29 West Coasters, two women step up to fight for accountability...
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