Melora Walters Biography

Fast Facts

• Has won two FFCC Awards for Best Ensemble Cast, one for "Boogie Nights" and the other for "Magnolia․"
• Attended Lake Forest Academy-Ferry Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois
• Graduated from the Pratt Institute in New York City
• Often plays the main character's love interest in her B-movie roles and makes guest appearances on TV series
• Best known for her roles in the films "Magnolia" and "The Butterfly Effect" and in the TV series "Big Fish․"
• Appeared in the music video for Michael Penn's song "Try" in 1997
• After the success of "Boogie Nights," writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson wrote the part of Claudia in "Magnolia" for her
• Her first book of poetry, "Sonnets and Failures," was published in 2010
• Two of her books were published by Writ Large Press in 2011: "In the Painting Heraclitus Wrings His Hands Above the World and Appears to be Crying" and "The Siren․"