Occupation Actress Name Melissa Fitzgerald | Role Actress Height 1.72 m | |
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Alma mater University of Pennsylvania Spouse Noah Emmerich (m. 1998–2003) Education University of Pennsylvania Parents Carole Fitzgerald, James Fitzgerald Movies Love & Sex, Country Remedy, This Is Not a Test, Staging Hope Similar People Noah Emmerich, Martin Sheen, Peter Weir, Andrew C Erin, Valerie Breiman | ||
Melissa fitzgerald at ncmr 2013
Melissa Fitzgerald is an American actress and Senior Director of the nonprofit organization Justice For Vets. She is best known for portraying Carol Fitzpatrick on The West Wing. Melissa Fitzgerald also studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.
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- Melissa fitzgerald at ncmr 2013
- Actress melissa fitzgerald on justice for our vets
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
Actress melissa fitzgerald on justice for our vets
Early life and education
Fitzgerald graduated from Springside School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and earned a B.A. in Drama and Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Her father is prominent Pennsylvania judge James Fitzgerald; and her mother, Carole, is involved in politics and volunteer work in Philadelphia.
Career
Fitzgerald is the founder of Voices in Harmony, a non-profit community theater in Los Angeles. From 1999 to 2005 she played Carol Fitzpatrick, assistant to C. J. Cregg, on The West Wing.
On January 19, 2007, Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times announced that Fitzgerald had won a writing contest he had sponsored on Darfur. On May 17, 2008, Fitzgerald received the Chestnut Hill College Medal; and she was the graduation speaker for the commencement exercises of Chestnut Hill College's class of 2008.
In November 2013, Fitzgerald joined Justice For Vets as its Senior Director. The organization advocates for Veterans Treatment Courts.
Personal life
In 1990, Fitzgerald met actor Noah Emmerich, who acted in The Truman Show, Beautiful Girls, and Miracle. Fitzgerald appears as an extra in The Truman Show and can be seen in the dance scene, where she is one of the other people dancing. They were married November 28, 1998. They divorced in 2003.
Filmography
Actress
2020
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (TV Special) as
Carol FItzpatrick
2016
Courting Des Moines as
Samantha Clemons
2012
Chasing the Hill (TV Series) as
Samantha Clemons
- Optimus Primary (2013) - Samantha Clemons
- The Enchanted Life of Samantha Clemons (2012) - Samantha Clemons
- Send in the Dancing Chihuahuas (2012) - Samantha Clemons
- Awesomeness Is a Warm Gun (2012) - Samantha Clemons
2012
Walk and Talk the Vote: West Wing Reunion - Bridget Mary McCormack (Video short) as
Carol Fitzpatrick
2012
Walk & Talk - The West Wing Reunion: Behind the Scenes (Short) as
Carol Fitzpatrick
2012
Walk & Talk: The West Wing Reunion (Short) as
Carol Fitzpatrick
2008
This Is Not a Test as
Wendy Romer
2007
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) as
Social Worker
- Time After Time (2007) - Social Worker
2007
Simple Things as
Julie Hargraves
1999
The West Wing (TV Series) as
Carol Fitzpatrick / Carol / White House Staffer
- Tomorrow (2006) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Requiem (2006) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Cold (2006) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Wedding (2005) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Mommy Problem (2005) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Wake Up Call (2005) - Carol
- 365 Days (2005) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Impact Winter (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- A Change Is Gonna Come (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Dover Test (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Hubbert Peak (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Liftoff (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Third-Day Story (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Birnam Wood (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- N.S.F. Thurmont (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Memorial Day (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Gaza (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Talking Points (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Access (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Supremes (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Eppur Si Muove (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Full Disclosure (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- An Khe (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Warfare of Genghis Khan (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Slow News Day (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Benign Prerogative (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Stormy Present (2004) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Abu el Banat (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Shutdown (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Constituency of One (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Jefferson Lives (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Dogs of War (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- 7A WF 83429 (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Twenty Five (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Commencement (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Life on Mars (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Evidence of Things Not Seen (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The California 47th (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Inauguration: Part 2 - Over There (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Inauguration: Part 1 (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Long Goodbye (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Guns Not Butter (2003) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Holy Night (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Arctic Radar (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Swiss Diplomacy (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Process Stories (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Election Night (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Game On (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Debate Camp (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- College Kids (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- 20 Hours in America: Part II (2002) - Carol
- 20 Hours in America: Part I (2002) - Carol
- Posse Comitatus (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Black Vera Wang (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Enemies Foreign and Domestic (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The U.S. Poet Laureate (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Hartsfield's Landing (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- 100,000 Airplanes (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- H. Con-172 (2002) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Women of Qumar (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Indians in the Lobby (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Gone Quiet (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- War Crimes (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- On the Day Before (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Ways and Means (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Manchester: Part I (2001) - Carol (uncredited)
- Two Cathedrals (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- 18th and Potomac (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Bad Moon Rising (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Stackhouse Filibuster (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Ellie (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The War at Home (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- Bartlet's Third State of the Union (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Drop In (2001) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- The Leadership Breakfast (2001) - Carol
- Noël (2000) - Carol
- Galileo (2000) - Carol
- Shibboleth (2000) - Carol
- The Portland Trip (2000) - Carol
- The Lame Duck Congress (2000) - Carol
- And It's Surely to Their Credit (2000) - Carol
- In This White House (2000) - Carol
- The Midterms (2000) - Carol
- In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part II (2000) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I (2000) - Carol Fitzpatrick
- What Kind of Day Has It Been (2000) - Carol
- Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (2000) - Carol
- Mandatory Minimums (2000) - Carol
- Let Bartlet Be Bartlet (2000) - Carol
- Six Meetings Before Lunch (2000) - Carol
- The White House Pro-Am (2000) - Carol
- Celestial Navigation (2000) - Carol
- Take This Sabbath Day (2000) - Carol
- Take Out the Trash Day (2000) - Carol
- He Shall, from Time to Time- (2000) - Carol
- Lord John Marbury (2000) - Carol
- The Short List (1999) - Carol
- The State Dinner (1999) - Carol
- The Crackpots and These Women (1999) - Carol
- Five Votes Down (1999) - Carol
- Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc (1999) - Carol
- Pilot (1999) - White House Staffer
2005
In an Instant (Short) as
The Woman
2004
What She Really Wants (Short)
2001
It Is What It Is as
Janeen Barton
2000
Frequency as
Linda Hersch
2000
Love & Sex as
Melanie
2000
Bob, Verushka & the Pursuit of Happiness as
Penny
1998
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk (TV Movie) as
Carol Cuthbert
1998
The Truman Show as
Girl Dancing with Marlon (uncredited)
1998
Monument Ave. as
Sheila
Producer
2016
Justice for Vets PSA (Video short) (executive producer)
2011
After Kony: Staging Hope (Documentary) (producer)
2008
Hope Not Lost (Short) (executive producer)
2001
Listen (producer)
Miscellaneous
1995
The Last Supper (production coordinator)
Thanks
1997
Two in the Morning (Short) (special thanks)
Self
2021
Stars in the House (TV Series) as
Self
- The West Wing Cast Reunion (2021) - Self
2016
Justice for Vets PSA (Video short) as
Self
2015
The Good Wife (TV Series) as
Self
- Red Meat (2015) - Self
2013
The Young Turks (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 31 July 2013 (2013) - Self - Guest
2011
After Kony: Staging Hope (Documentary) as
Self
2008
The Captain (Documentary short) as
Mother
2008
Hope Not Lost (Short) as
Self
2008
Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns (Documentary) as
Self
References
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