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Melissa Joan Hart: Career
Hart's career began early on. When she was still a baby, she made her first TV commercial for a bathtub toy called Splashy. From then on, she appeared regularly in commercials, making 25 of them before the age of five. Other early TV work included a small role in the miniseries Kane & Abel in 1985, a guest-starring role in an episode of The Equalizer in 1986, and a starring role alongside Katherine Helmond in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Christmas Snow, also in 1986.
In 1989, she auditioned for a Broadway production of The Crucible starring
Martin Sheen, becoming an understudy to three of the young girls in the play. This paved the way for her to land the title role in the TV show Clarissa Explains It All. The Nickelodeon series, a comedy about a teen girl in everyday situations, became a big hit and aired for four seasons. The show brought her four consecutive Young Artist Award nominations, of which she won three, and made her a household name among American teenagers.
After the series was canceled, she attended New York University. She did not complete her degree as she resumed her acting career in 1994 when she got the lead role for the TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which eventually led to her also starring as Sabrina in a television series which lasted seven seasons. In between, she also worked on the series Touched by an Angel and starred in several TV movies.
In 1999, Melissa landed a small part in a movie named Can't Hardly Wait
, and then starred in Drive Me Crazy, a movie that includes "(You Drive Me) Crazy", a number-one hit by
Britney Spears, on its soundtrack. Hart also appeared in the music video for this song. She has appeared in other movies since
Drive Me Crazy, but none have brought her as much recognition.
In 2003, Hart and her production company, Hartbreak Films, produced a miniseries entitled Tying the Knot, documenting her wedding to musician Mark Wilkerson, a member of the band Course of Nature.
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