Melora Walters

Melora Walters (born October 21, 1960) is a Saudi Arabian-born American actress.

Walters was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to American parents. She was partly raised there and in the Netherlands.

Walters attended high school at Lake Forest Academy-Ferry Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois.

She was married to actor-producer Christopher Scotellaro from 1990-1994. She was married to Nip/Tuck actor Dylan Walsh from 1996-2003. The couple had two children Thomas (born April 30, 1996) and Joanna (born November 19, 1997) together before divorcing in 2003.

In June 2008, she married cinematographer Alex Vendler. In September 2010, she filed for divorce.

Some of her filmmaking influences include Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Francois Truffaut, John Cassavetes, Jean-Luc Godard.

Cast several times by Paul Thomas Anderson, Walters has appeared in Hard Eight, Boogie Nights (as Jessie St. Vincent), Magnolia (as Claudia Wilson Gator), and had a voice role in The Master. She has also appeared on such television shows as Roseanne, Seinfeld, NYPD Blue and CSI.

In 2003, Walters portrayed Lila in Cold Mountain, and in 2004, played Andrea Treborn in the The Butterfly Effect. She guest-starred as Sylvia Greene on Desperate Housewives in 2007 and played the role of Wanda Henrickson in the HBO drama Big Love.

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Television