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November 13, 2008

Jan Levenson's exclusive interview about expecting in Pregnancy magazine. Click here to view.

Playbill.com announces Melora's Broadway debut! Click here to view.

Broadwayworld.com announces Melora's stint as Roxie Hart in Chicago. Click here for more.

Big announcement! Melora to appear as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway!. Click here for more.

AP picked up the announcement that Melora is set to appear as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway! Click here for more.

VIVA magazine cover feature on Melora. Click here for more.

Statment magazine feature on Melora. Click here for more.

FHM Magazine features Melora as a fab flapper. Click here for more.

September 23, 2008

LA Direct magazine profiles Melora. Click here for more.

TV Guide profiles Melora's appearance on Yo Gabba Gabba! Click here for more.

Value Magazine mentions Les Mis in Concert. Click here for more.

Jan's Revenge! Article on IGN.com. Click here to view.

Celebrity Baby Scoop is at the DVD release of Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning and so is Melora. Click here to view.

August 19, 2008

Six Degrees Magazine profiles Melora in four-page spread in the August 2008 issue. Click here for more.

Les Mis in Concert was a "Starry Starry Night" at the Hollywood Bowl according to Broadway.com. Click here for more.

MTV Online reveals Melora's "crush", find out who it is here.


August 6, 2008

Melora mentioned in OK magazine. Click here to view.

Melora mentioned in the Los Angeles Times . Click here to view.

The first of a 2-part interview for Glide Magazine. Click here to view.

Behind-the-Scenes rehearsal photos of Les Mis at the Hollywood Bowl from BroadwayWorld.com. Click here to view.

June 30, 2008

Melora is on TV Squad's list of TV's Hottest Women Over 40. Click here to view.

Melora mentioned in Variety's article about Emmy's Supporting Players. Click here to view.

April 25, 2008

The Hollywood Reporter news item about Melora's role in the new Hannah Montana movie. Click here for more.

Melora's pics at the Hot Moms Club book party for The Hot Mom to be Handbook. Click here to view.

April 16, 2008

Melora's appearance on Hollywood 411. Click here to view.

April 9, 2008
Video of Melora from CW11 in New York. Click here to view.

Fashiontribes.com article on Elle Magazine panel that Melora was on. Click here to read more.

Video of Melora's appearance on NBC's Today Show. Click to view here.

Melora's appearance on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. Click to view here.


February 28, 2008
Web short "Elevator" premieres on Runawaybox.com


February 27, 2008
Los Angeles Times news item about "Les Miserables."

Playbill article news item about "Les Miserables."

Check out Without A Thought blog item about "Les Miserables."


February 26, 2008
Excitement & Cast Bust Out for Hollywood Bowl Les Miserables Concert this Summer with Melora announced in the part of Fantine. Click here for more.

February 1, 2008
Melora has a spread in the new Aventura magazine.

October 28, 2007
Check out an article on the first ever "The Office" convention in Scranton, PA .

USA Today article about "The Office" Convention here.

October 26, 2007
Los Angeles Time article about Jan losing her job on "The Office."

February 18, 2007

Check out my interview with TV with MeeVee's blog here.

November 12 , 2006

Melora is currently filming a feature film for FOX called "The Comebacks" which will have a major release in theaters March 23rd, 2007.  It's a hilarious comedy about the worst coach in history.

Melora featured in InStyle magazine's The Look of the Emmys section. Click here to check it out.

Also added: Read Melora's interview with ReviewPlays.com and the review of "stripSearch" the play Melora directed.

November 6 , 2006

Online ordering for my CD "Purr" now available. Click LISTEN to check it out.

Catch Melora on new episodes of "The Office" on NBC.


"I think of myself as a character actress. I enjoy characters," Melora utters while trying to downplay her penchent for being cast as the sexy vamp. "I'm very attracted to people who have things going on that are very different from what's going on in my life. To me, that's the reason to be an actress, to play people who are different, to experiment with the different parts within yourself." Studying the numerous characters Hardin has portrayed, it's easy to see that sex appeal is but one of many internal aspects explored by this multi-faceted woman. "I also love comedy. I love drama. You always have to bring yourself to the characters."- Venice February 1997

From 'Friends' to 'FBI'

Remember the woman who got Ross to talk dirty to her in an episode of "Friends" a few years back?

You might not have known who she was then, but Melora Hardin is now being touted as "the hottest thing to hit USA."

Of course, it's the USA network that's doing the touting. Hardin will return for a second season of "Cover Me: Based on the true life of an FBI family," 9.pm Sunday.

To allow for flashback scenes, Hardin plays a woman a decade older than herself, the matriarch of what she calls a "highly functional dysfunvtional" FBI family.

She describes her character, Barbara Arno, as "very strong". She's the one that tries to inject a little normalcy. She's the center, the rock."

Executive producer and former "Hardy Boy" Shaun Cassidy had "about a hundred conversations with the woman I'm playing," estimates hardin. "We're not portraying the people; we're using some of the circumstances."

Hardin considers the show's portrayal of married life important. "The husband and wife have a lot of passion for each other, and I like to see that on TV. There is certainly a message about the family. These are people who are passionate."

- Mary Beth Collver, Jan 2001



Critical praise for Melora:


"Shaun Cassidy again shows his writing talents...Mom Barbara is played to sizzling perfection by Melora Hardin.
- Susan Young, Oakland Tribune.

Low-Profile "Cover Me" entraps viewers

What are best original series on cable?
HBO's The Sopranos automatically makes the list. Other major vote-getters would probably be lifetime's Any day Now, Showtime's Resurrection Blvd. and two others from the HBO stable, Sex and the city and Oz.

Based on buzz and critical acclaim, you just might add USA's Cover me. Before you say "Cover Who?" here's the lowdown on this one hour series.

Though it is USA's highest rated original series, drawing about 2 million viewers, Cover me still has a relatively low profile. The hero is Danny Arno (Peter Dobson), a freelance federal agent working mainly for the FBI, infiltrating mob operations. Usually such agents keep their families seperate from their work. In this series, Arno doesn't.

For one thing, he's such a dedicated family man that he can't stand to be away from the wife and kids for months at a time. His other rationale, which seems a little fuzzy, is that they're safer with him. So when he's undercover, with different aliases, so are his wife (Melora Hardin) and 11 year old Chance (Michael Angarano) and 16 year old Celeste (Cameron Richardson).

"We're less interested in doing the crime of the week," says executive producer Shaun Cassidy, the former teen idol. "What we're interested in is the family dynamic."

Sounds a bit like Father Knows Best meets James Bond.

"But Danny is far from the perfect father", Hardin says. "He's rough round the edges, a tough guy trying to be a good father. He wants to be with his kids, but he doesn't always know what to do with them.

The new episodes will be much more dramatic, which is fine with Hardin. "I'd like to see my character crack and fall apart," She says. "You get a better sense of her struggle. She becomes a character with more depth. What actress doesn't want to play a character with some depth?"

"We don't have big budgets," Hardin says. "We don't have HBO money. We have to cut corners and do fewer takes and do all the things you do when you don't have a lot of money. We'd prefer a bigger budget, but we don't have it. But there's a plus. Shows with this kind of budget are usually junk. This one isn't - and we're proud of that."

- Dennis Hunt/Special for USA TODAY