Melanie Mayron was nominated three times for an Emmy Award and won for Best Supporting Actress for thirtysomething.  For the film Girlfriends, she was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Newcomer and won The Bronze Leopard for Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival.

She has directed the features The Babysitter’s Club, She Gets What She Wants, and Snapshots. For television she directed numerous episodes including  Tell Me You Love Me, and In Treatment for HBO; Glow and Grace and Frankie for Netflix; as well as Jane the Virgin, P Valley, Not Dead Yet, Julia for Max, The Serpent Queen and The Hunting Wives for Starz.

She was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for ABC’s Toothless, and won several Independent Film Festival Directing awards for her feature Snapshots. 

As an actress she has starred in feature films including Car Wash, Harry & Tonto; Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends; Costa Gavras’ Missing; and Sticky Fingers which she co-wrote and co-produced with Catlin Adams. On the small screen, she starred with Vanessa Redgrave in Playing For Time and is most known for her role in the groundbreaking drama thirtysomething. Melanie recurred on Jane The Virgin and can be seen in Julia on Max.  Most recently Melanie has had a starring role in Sandra Tsing Loh’s play Madwomen of the West in Los Angeles, Off Broadway and in London.

Melanie is also the founder of Mayron’s Goods + Supply, a line of botanical skincare she created with her chemist dad, David Mayron.  Their goods can be found at https://mayronsgoods.com