Melinda O. Fee is an American actress who has starred in films and on television. Her first starring role was in the 1950s TV series Love of Life

Love of Life

Love of Life is an American soap opera which aired on CBS Daytime from September 24, 1951 to February 1, 1980. It was created by Roy Winsor, whose previous creation Search for Tomorrow had premiered three weeks before Love of Life, and who would go on to create The Secret Storm two and a half years...

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Most of Fee's other TV roles were on soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

s like Guiding Light

Guiding Light

Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...

as Charlotte Waring Fletcher Bauer from 1970–1973, Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...

as Mary Anderson

Mary Anderson (fiction)

Mary Anderson is a fictional character on the soap opera Days of our Lives. Mary was played by seven different actresses from 1972 until 1982.-Fictional character history :...

. from 1981–1982, and Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara (TV series)

Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolved around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California...

as Olivia Welles from 1987–1988, but she also starred (alongside David McCallum) in the 1975-1976 TV series The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H.G. Wells published in 1897. Wells' novel was originally serialised in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, and published as a novel the same year...

, playing the title character's wife, Dr. Kate Westin. Fee has also starred in made-for-TV movies, and guest starred on many 1970s TV series, including Quincy, M.E.

Quincy, M.E.

Quincy, M.E., also called Quincy, is a United States television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC...

, The Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman is an American television series starring Lindsay Wagner that aired for three seasons between 1976 and 1978 as a spin off from The Six Million Dollar Man. Wagner stars as tennis pro Jaime Sommers who is nearly killed in a skydiving accident. Sommers' life is saved by Oscar Goldman ...

, CHiPs

CHiPs

CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by MGM Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to July 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol...

, Eight is Enough

Eight Is Enough

Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series which ran on ABC from March 15, 1977 until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name...

, and Dallas.

In 1984, Fee served as temporary replacement for Brenda Dickson

Brenda Dickson

Brenda Irene Dickson ) is an American actress who originated the role of Jill Foster Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.-Work:...

 as Jill Foster Abbott on The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...

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She has starred in movies like The Unkissed Bride (1966), Fade to Black

Fade to Black (1980 movie)

Fade to Black is a 1980 slasher film starring Golden Globe-nominee Dennis Christopher, Eve Brent Ashe, and Linda Kerridge. Mickey Rourke also appears in a small role as a bully and one of the killer's victims...

(1980) and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge is a 1985 American slasher film and the second film in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. The film was directed by Jack Sholder and stars Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. Despite the film's title,...

(1985). Fee has made guest appearances on TV shows including My Favorite Martian

My Favorite Martian

My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to May 1, 1966 for 107 episodes...

, Lost in Space

Lost in Space

Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968...

, Knight Rider, and Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American drama series that originally aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox and was produced by Spelling Television in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world. It is the first series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise...

and a couple of winning appearances on The Match Game with Gene Rayburn.

Filmography

• Changes
  Changes (1991 film)
  Changes, also known as Danielle Steel's Changes, is a 1991 television film directed by Charles Jarrott. The film is based upon the 1983 novel of the same name written by Danielle Steel.-Plot:...
  
  (1991) (TV)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
  A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
  A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge is a 1985 American slasher film and the second film in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. The film was directed by Jack Sholder and stars Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. Despite the film's title,...
  
  (1985)
• Doin' Time
  Doin' Time
  "Doin' Time" is a single by the American band Sublime. It is featured on their self-titled third album. The lyrics tell of a cheating girlfriend, whose infidelities and poor treatment of her lover makes him feel like he is in prison. "Doin' Time" features heavy usage of lounge music...
  
  (1985)
• Fade to Black
  Fade to Black (1980 movie)
  Fade to Black is a 1980 slasher film starring Golden Globe-nominee Dennis Christopher, Eve Brent Ashe, and Linda Kerridge. Mickey Rourke also appears in a small role as a bully and one of the killer's victims...
  
  (1980)
• The Aliens Are Coming (1980)
• The Invisible Man
  The Invisible Man (1975 TV series)
  The Invisible Man, the second television series with this title, debuted in 1975 on NBC and starred David McCallum as scientist Daniel Westin, and Melinda Fee as his wife, Dr. Kate Westin. The series was created by legendary producer Harve Bennett.-Cast:...
  
  (1975)
• The Unkissed Bride (1966)

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