While it seems that it will take a busy actor or actress in a season to garner much public attention, it takes even more in unusual times like a pandemic to prove star power and relevance.
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Award-winning New Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey is best known in independent films for strikingly unconventional, soft-spoken but headstrong roles.
Let’s check out what Lynskey’s been up to.
What is Melanie Lynskey doing now?
The New Zealand actress currently portrays Shauna on the series Yellowjackets, which has been running on Showtime since 2021.
Lynskey has also been nominated 2022 Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role on the series.
Does Melanie Lynskey have an accent?
Melanie has a New Zealand accent. Naturally. She has used her “real” accent whenever she starred in any of her movies made in New Zealand, like Heavenly Creatures.
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Shockingly, she has been praised by some in the industry as capable of doing one of the best American accents by a non-American actor on screen.
Melanie credits this achievement to help from Marvel’s The Avengers writer and director Joss Whedon for helping her learn the accent after watching several American movies and learning to suppress her Kiwi brogue.
Where do I know Melanie Lynskey from?
Melanie Lynskey is everything but unfamiliar.
If you have ever been a fan of comedy TV shows like Two and a Half Men, then you sure do know Melanie Lynskey from her portrayal of Rose alongside Charlie Sheen’s character Charlie Harper in 63 episodes.
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