Melody Perkins
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Melody Perkins is a German-born American actress, model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 and dancer, best known for her regular role as the villainess Astronema in the series Power Rangers in Space
Power Rangers in Space
Power Rangers in Space is a television show that aired in 1998 as the sixth season and fourth installment of the Power Rangers franchise...

.

Biography

Perkins was born in Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...

, West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

 and grew up in Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...

, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. Her major in college was quantitative economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 and she also studied Japanese language
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 and culture.

An accomplished dancer, Perkins has performed with the Sacramento Ballet Company and the Jazz Unlimited Dance Company. She also models, with clients which include Lands' End
Lands' End
Lands' End is a clothing retailer based in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, that specializes in casual clothing, luggage, and home furnishings. The majority of Lands' End's business is conducted through mail order and Internet sales, but the company also runs more than a dozen retail operations, primarily in...

. She broke into acting during a modelling trip to Europe, making commercials in Italy and France. Nevertheless she has not abandoned modelling entirely, saying "I still do it when I can."

As an actress, Perkins' longest running role has been in the series Power Rangers in Space
Power Rangers in Space
Power Rangers in Space is a television show that aired in 1998 as the sixth season and fourth installment of the Power Rangers franchise...

, playing the lead villain Astronema. She said of the role: "It's fun being the bad gal." Her character was known for her skin-tight costume.

Perkins returned to Power Rangers
Power Rangers
Power Rangers is a long-running American entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live action children's television series featuring teams of costumed heroes...

, this time as the reformed Karone
Karone
Karone, also known as Astronema, is a character from the Power Rangers universe, first appearing in the television series Power Rangers in Space...

, in the follow-up series Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy
Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy is the fifth television series and seventh installment of the Power Rangers franchise that aired in 1999. It featured familiar elements from previous incarnations. It is based on the Japanese Super Sentai television series Seijuu Sentai Gingaman...

. She is the only person to have played the arch-enemy of the Power Rangers in one season and a Power Ranger in the next season. She replaced Valerie Vernon
Valerie Vernon
Valerie Ann Vernon is an American actress best known for her role as Kendrix Morgan, the Pink Ranger on Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy...

, who left to battle leukemia, as the Pink Galaxy Ranger. She has also voiced a monster in Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue
Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue
Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue is the 2000 incarnation of the Power Rangers TV franchise, based on the Super Sentai series Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive....

.

Perkins has also appeared as a babysitter in Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

, as an evil witch in an episode of Charmed
Charmed
Charmed is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, on the now defunct The WB Television Network. The series was created in 1998 by writer Constance M...

, and in episodes of various other series. She has also appeared in a commercial for Allstate Insurance
Allstate
The Allstate Corporation is the second-largest personal lines insurer in the United States and the largest that is publicly held. The company also has personal lines insurance operations in Canada. Allstate was founded in 1931 as part of Sears, Roebuck and Co., and was spun off in 1993...

. Perkins retired from acting after she made a brief appearance in an episode of CSI. Miami in 2004.

In 2007, Perkins appeared on a cover for Let's Live magazine.

Film

  • Planet of the Apes (2001 film)
    Planet of the Apes (2001 film)
    Planet of the Apes is a 2001 American science fiction film, based on Pierre Boulle's novel and a remake of the 1968 film of the same name. Tim Burton directed the film, which stars Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti, and Estella Warren. It tells the...

    (2001) as Friend at Leo's Party
  • Coyote Ugly (2000) as New Coyote (uncredited)

TV

  • High Tide
    High Tide
    High Tide was a band formed in 1969 by Tony Hill , Simon House , Peter Pavli and Roger Hadden .-History:...

    , "The Grind" (1995)
  • Night Man
    Night Man
    Night Man is an American action/adventure/sci-fi series that aired in syndication from September 15, 1997 to May 17, 1999. The series is loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and was created by Steve Englehart and developed for television by Glen A...

    , "Face to Face" (1997) as Lisa
  • Silk Stalkings
    Silk Stalkings
    Silk Stalkings is a TV crime drama originally shown on CBS in 1991 as part of the network's late-night Crimetime After Primetime programming package, and rebroadcast on the USA Network. After CBS ended the Crimetime experiment in 1993, the series ran exclusively on USA until its finale in the...

    , "Child's Play" (1997) as Maid
  • Power Rangers in Space
    Power Rangers in Space
    Power Rangers in Space is a television show that aired in 1998 as the sixth season and fourth installment of the Power Rangers franchise...

    (1998, series regular) as Astronema/Karone
  • Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (1999, series regular) as Karone/Pink Galaxy Ranger #2
  • Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, "The Fifth Crystal" (2000) as Laser (voice, uncredited)
  • Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle
    Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

    , "Convention" (2000) as Patty Henderson
  • Charmed
    Charmed
    Charmed is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, on the now defunct The WB Television Network. The series was created in 1998 by writer Constance M...

    , "The Power of Three Blondes" (2003) as Margo Stillman
  • CSI: Miami
    CSI: Miami
    CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....

    , "Wannabe" (2004) as Barbara Nance

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