Melanie is from Derry, Northern Ireland and trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls (Minerva Theatre, Chichester);Wonderful Tennessee (Sheffield Crucible); The Dog In The Manger, Pedro The Great Pretender, Tamar’s Revenge (Royal Shakespeare Company); Peer Gynt, The Playboy of the Western World (National Theatre); Twelfth Night (Oxford Creation Theatre); Dancing at Lughnasa (New Vic Theatre); Blood Wedding (Newcastle Playhouse); Over the Bridge and Spokesong (Finborough Theatre); The Art of Success (Arcola Theatre); Midden (Oldham Coliseum); Summerhouse and the Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (Druid Theatre, Galway); Playgirl and Rumpelstilskin (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Illusion (Charabanc Theatre, Belfast); The Lament for Arthur Cleary (7:84 Theatre Scotland); Silas Marner (Olympia Theatre, Dublin).

Television includes: Dani’s Castle and Holby City. Melanie plays Jules McGonigle in the award-winning Irish drama series Red Rock (BBC/TV3).

Film includes: A Pornographer Woos.

Melanie has written five short plays, all performed at the Landor Theatre, London, one of which, Bungalow, was made in to a short film.

She has recorded multiple audiobooks for the RNIB and Audible.co.uk