TV Teen Star: Melissa Joan Hart

After spending the 1990s as a TV teen star, Melissa Joan Hart set her sights on feature films. Born and raised on Long Island, Hart began acting in TV commercials as a child. She further honed her skills in New York theater in the late '80s as the youngest member of the Circle Repertory Lab Company. Hart then broke through as a cable TV favorite and a CableACE Award nominee in the role of the precocious titular preteen on the Nickelodeon series Clarissa Explains. After the tv series ended, Hart moved to network TV stardom in 1996 as the supernaturally gifted title teen on Sabrina The Teenage Witch. Maintaining her pert prime time persona while revealing her range, Hart also starred in several TV movies, including:

• Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare

• Twisted Desire

• The Right Connections

• Silencing Mary (the college date rape drama)

Though Hart continued to produce and star in Sabrina, she also attempted to parlay her TV fame into movie stardom with the romantic comedy Drive Me Crazy. The film, however, failed to perform as well as the Britney Spears tune that gave it its title. Hart raised eyebrows that same year when she tried to shed her squeaky-clean adolescent image with a racy photo spread and interview in men's magazine Maxim.

Sabrina The Teenage Witch | TV Show

By now Sabrina – I mean Melissa Joan Hart already completed her new movie for this year entitled “Nine Dead”. This is an interesting variation on horror films, the movie is likely to be rated "R". This may be unexpected to some viewers who remember the Television series work of Ms. Melissa Joan Hart.

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http://movies.yahoo.com/

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