Melinda McGraw was raised in Massachusetts. She was classically trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London alongside Clive Owen, Ralph Fiennes and many other notable talents. After graduating she remained in England performing in such theatre productions as Twelfth Night, El Cid, The Foreigner and Don Carlos (dir. Nicolas Hytner) among others. She returned to the States in 1990 where she began a film and television career, working with directors as diverse as Kevin Spacey, Christopher Nolan, James Burrows, Betty Thomas, Peter Tolan and Harold Ramis — and opposite actors as diverse as John Cleese, Kathleen Turner, John Goodman, Alan Alda, Olympia Dukakis, and Gary Oldman.

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