Melissa Joan Hart Biography

Fast Facts

• Was born on Easter
• Acting career started at the age of 4 when she did a commercial for a bathtub toy
• Has a lazy eyelid that causes her right eye not to open as wide as the left
• Helped found Hartbreak Films, a production company she runs with her mother and stepfather
• Narrated 1994's Peter and the Wolf, a classical album for children
• Siblings Elizabeth, Emily and Brian appeared in Melissa's TV series, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
• Has a tattoo of a cross on the back of her neck
• Opened a candy shop in Sherman Oaks, CA, called Sweetharts in 2009
• Made a pact with her husband to move out of Los Angeles before their second child went to kindergarten; the pair eventually settled down in Westport, CT, in 2009
• Became interested in rowing in 2010 when she joined a rowing club near her home in Connecticut