Melanie Mayron

Melanie Mayron – 3rd Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards, 2016 – Photo Credit: Billy Bennight / PR Photos

Birth Name: Melanie Joy Mayron

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Date of Birth: October 20, 1952

Ethnicity:
*Sephardi Jewish (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)

Melanie Mayron is an American actress and film and television director. She is known for her roles on the series thirtysomething and in the films Car Wash, Girlfriends, and Sticky Fingers; she also co-wrote the latter. She has directed the films The Baby-Sitters Club (1995), Slap Her… She’s French, and Snapshots, the made-for-tv movies Freaky Friday (1995), Toothless, Zeyda and the Hitman, Campus Confidential, and Mean Girls 2, and episodes of Arli$$, State of Grace, The Naked Brothers Band, In Treatment, Easy to Assemble, Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth, Jane the Virgin, Dynasty, and Julia.

Melanie is the daughter of Norma (Goodman), a real estate agent, and David Mayron, a pharmaceutical chemist. Her father has Sephardi Jewish roots, and was raised in then-Mandatory Palestine, now Israel. His family’s surname was originally spelt as Mizrahi. Melanie’s mother is of Russian Jewish ancestry.

Melanie has two children with her former partner, director, screenwriter, and producer Cynthia Mort.

Melanie’s grandmother was an actress in the Yiddish theatre.

Source: http://jewishjournal.com