Melinda Clarke
Melinda Clarke (Role): Julie Cooper-Nichol
Birthday: April-24-1972
Birthplace: Dana Point, California, USA
Birth Name: Melinda Patrice Clarke
AKA : Mindy Clarke, Melinda Clark, and Melinda Clarke-Mirich
Recent Role : Dr. Lee on Eli Stone
Gender: Female
Height : 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
Melinda Clarke aka Melinda Patrice Clarke took birth in Dana Point, California in the family of Patricia, a ballet dancer and John Clarke, an actor. Her sister, Heidi, died in 1994 due to a malignant heart tumor. She has a brother named Joshua.
Debut of her acting career was made on the daytime soap opera ‘Days of Our Lives’ in which she portrayed Faith Brown. She next starred on ‘Soldier of Fortune’ in its both seasons. Her notable guest appearances are on ‘Xena: Warrior Princess, Firefly, and Charmed. She appeared five times on CSI, portraying the dominatrix, Lady Heather. She also made appearance in an episode of Seinfeld entitled ‘The Muffin Tops’.
Initially, she was brought in as a guest star on the very popular drama ‘The OC’ but the huge fan following helped her to become a series regular, Julie Cooper Nichol. On the HBO hit ‘Entourage’, she appeared as a fictionalized version of herself. In the 2007 hit of ‘The CW’, Reaper’, she portrayed the character of Devils’ girlfriend. She auditioned for a role on the sci-fi hit Battlestar Galactica, but Tricia Helfer got the role, instead of her.
Melinda Clarke is an active member of Young Storytellers Foundation. On ‘Chuck’, another presentation of The OC creator, she appeared as a guest star. Her other acting credits include ‘Mate’, ‘Eli Stone’, ‘She Drives Me Crazy’, ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’, ‘Tremors’, ‘The District’, ‘Firefly’, ‘Family Under Siege’, ‘Everwood’, ‘Charmed’, ‘Enterprise’, ‘.com for Murder’, ‘The Pretender’, ‘Soldier of Fortune, Inc.’, ‘Spawn’, ‘Killer Tongue’, ‘Mulholland Falls’, ‘Strange Luck’, ‘Nash Bridges’, ‘Sliders’, ‘Return to Two Moon Junction’, ‘The George Carlin Show’, ‘Heaven Help Us’, ‘Return of the Living Dead 3?, ‘ Young Goodman Brown’, ‘Out for Blood’, ‘Hot under the Collar’,
‘Jake and the Fatman’ ‘Days of our Lives’, and ‘Loveline (Radio Show)’ etc.
Role on ‘The OC’
Melinda Clarke portrayed the character of Julie Cooper Nichol on ‘The OC‘. She is a kinda lady who always imagines living a high life. In order to make up with Jimmy Cooper, she left her former boyfriend. Her character received huge response from viewers and that’s why she was added as a regular to the star cast.