
Melora Walters
Department: Acting
Biography
Melora Walters (born October 21, 1959) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring roles as Wanda Henrickson in the television series Big Love and Kathy Kone in PEN15, and has appeared in several Paul Thomas Anderson films.
Known For

Magnolia
1999

Desert Saints
2002

The Butterfly Effect
2004

Hard Eight
1997

Hurt
2009

Cabin Boy
1994

WiseGirls
2002

The Big Empty
2003

Speaking of Sex
2001

The River Murders
2011

Twenty Bucks
1993

Brothers Three: An American Gothic
2007

American Strays
1996

Missing Pieces
2012

Shit Year
2010

Lonely Boy
2013

Short Term 12
2013

Underdogs
2013

Dead Poets: A Look Back
2006

All Tied Up
1994

The Young Kieslowski
2014

Telling Secrets
1993

Staring at the Dark
1988

America's Deadliest Home Video
1993

Sex, Death and Bowling
2015

Rain
2001

Ed Wood
1994

Case 219
2010

Dead Man's Revenge
1994

Mary
2012

Good After Bad
2017

Sacrifice
2015

The Lovers
2017

Indiscretion
2016

Boogie Nights
1997

Midnight Run for Your Life
1994

In a Relationship
2018

Harrison Montgomery
2008

Cam
2018

Love Ranch
2010

Hard Luck Love Song
2021

That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000

Venom
2018

Dead Poets Society
1989

Odious
2017

Beneath the Leaves
2019

Doubting Thomas
2018

The Master
2012

Robert the Bruce
2019

The Pale Door
2020

How to Murder a Millionaire
1990

Beethoven
1992

The Amaranth
2018

Drowning
2019

Eraser
1996

Where Are You
2022

Twice Upon a Time
1998

Adeline, the Great
2019

Offseason
2022

Rude Awakening
1989

Los Locos
1997

Melvin Goes to Dinner
2003

Matchstick Men
2003

Cold Mountain
2003

Black Crescent Moon
2008

Pink Skies Ahead
2020

The Accursed
2021

Far More
2021

Sugar Mountain
2016

The Idea
2025

Situations
2025

Crooks
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Nash Bridges
1996

Seinfeld
1989

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000

Desperate Housewives
2004

Roseanne
1988

Walker, Texas Ranger
1993

PEN15
2019

The Wonder Years
1988

Big Love
2006

Bakersfield P.D.
1993

Brooklyn South
1997

NCIS
2003

The Mentalist
2008

Threat Matrix
2003

Californication
2007

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

American Gigolo
2022

The OA
2016

Dear John
1988

Dream On
1990

L.A. Doctors
1998

FBI
2018

Franklin & Bash
2011