Take a look back at soapstar Melissa George’s career as her new film Triangle is released…
Melissa George first hit UK TV screens in 1993 when she joined the cast of Home and Away as runaway wild child, Angel Brooks.
After living on the streets and ending up in hospital with a serious infection, things began to look up when Angel (Melissa George) was taken in by the school headmaster, Mr Fisher.
Whilst living at the Fisher household Angel (Melissa George) met Shane Parrish (Dieter Brummer) who, following a rocky start and the revelation that Angel was a teen mum, she married in 1995.
As Angel, she developed from a troubled teen to wife, mother, widow and carer before finally leaving the show in 1997
After Home and Away, Melissa had small parts in a few Australian TV shows & film. She then headed for L.A. where she made appearances in bigger movies such as Mulholland Drive (2001).
Following Mulholland Drive (2001), in 2003 Melissa George went on to appear in Down With Love as well as a number of well-known American TV series such as LA Confidential, Coupling, Friends and Charmed.
2003 was the also year of Melissa George’s biggest US TV break when she joined the cast of Alias as the gently spoken English agent Lauren Reed for 3rd series of Emmy award-winning espionage show.
When the Lutz family move into a new home in Long Island they don’t know that it was the scene of six gruesome murders the year before.
Melissa then appeared in 2007’s Turistas – a film that saw a group of young backpackers become marooned in a remote part of Brazil.
Melissa starred in 2007’s Music Within, the story of a public speaker who returns from Vietnam severely hearing impaired.
30 Days of Night (2007) – Stella Oleson (Melissa George) fighting for her life against a hoard of hungry vampires.
Melissa George as Laura in In Treatment, Golden Globe winner for best TV Drama in 2009. In Treatment is currently showing in the UK on Mon-Fri at 10pm on Sky Arts.
No stranger to the horror genre, Melissa stars in Triangle – at UK cinemas on Friday, October 16 – alongside Michael Dorman who plays Greg.
