
Person in history
Melissa Joan Hart
Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
Life at a glance
- Born
- 1976 · April 18
- Age this year
- 50No death recorded in our data
- Known as
- television actor, voice actor, film producer, singer, and entrepreneur. Citizenship: United States
- Born
- 50th anniversary of their birth this year
Their story
Who they were
Personal life On July 19, 2003, Hart married musician Mark Wilkerson , having met him at the Kentucky Derby in May 2002. [ 1 ] The preparations for the ceremony, which took place in Florence , Italy, were documented in a television miniseries titled Tying the Knot , produced by Hart's production company Hartbreak Films and aired on ABC Family. Hart and Wilkerson have three sons. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] They lived in Westport, Connecticut , until 2019,
Melissa Joan Hart is an American actress, director and producer. She had starring roles as the title characters in the sitcoms Clarissa Explains It All, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Melissa & Joey, and she appeared as Liz in No Good Nick. She has also appeared in the films Drive Me Crazy (1999), Nine Dead (2009), and God's Not Dead 2 (2016).
Early life
Educated at: New York University and Professional Children's School.
Early life Hart was born in Smithtown, New York , the first child of Paula Hart (née Voje), a producer and talent manager, and William Hart, a carpenter, shellfish purveyor, oyster hatchery worker, and entrepreneur. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her maternal grandfather, Stanley John Voje, was a Navy veteran and Catholic . [ 3 ] Hart's parents had four other children after Melissa: Trisha, Elizabeth, Brian, and Emily , who are all in acting. Her parents divorced in the early 1990s,
Path and career
Career Early career Hart's career began at age four when she made a television commercial for a bathtub doll called Splashy. [ 1 ] From then on, she appeared regularly in commercials, making 25 of them before the age of five. Other early television work included a small role in the miniseries Kane & Abel in 1985, a guest-starring role in an episode of The Equalizer [ 2 ] in 1986, and a starring role alongside Katherine Helmond in the Emmy Award -winning television film Christmas Snow , [
Why this date
Melissa Joan Hart appears on our April 18 calendar for 1976 as a birth entry.
The world when they were born
Other entries we record for 1976.
- September 17Space Shuttle Enterprise
- October 66 October 1976 massacre
- October 6Cubana de Aviación Flight 455
- July 19Bunbury woodchip bombing
- July 19Sagarmatha National Park
Born the same day
Contemporaries — born the same year
- 1976José CancelaJune 25
- 1976Eric D. JohnsonJune 7
- 1976Andrew NgApril 18
- 1976Dan CloutierApril 22
- 1976Lindsay DavenportJune 8
Sources
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Questions about Melissa Joan Hart
When was Melissa Joan Hart born?
April 18 1976.
How old would Melissa Joan Hart be today?
50 this year, based on the birth year we hold. We have no death record for them in our data, which is not proof either way.
Who else was born on April 18?
Alia Shawkat, Miguel Cabrera, Divock Origi and others — the list is on this page and on the date page.
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