Melissa Errico
| Melissa Errico | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Melissa Errico March 23, 1970 New York, New York |
| Occupation | Actress Singer Recording Artist Writer |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Spouse(s) | Patrick McEnroe (19th December 1998 – present) |
| Children | Victoria Penny McEnroe (b. 21st April 2006) Diana Katherine McEnroe and Juliette Beatrice McEnroe (b. 19th November 2008) |
| Website | http://www.melissaerrico.com/ |
Melissa Errico is an American actress, singer, recording artist and writer. She is perhaps best known for her leading Broadway musical roles such as Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" and Kurt Weill's "One Touch of Venus," and as an interpreter of the work of Stephen Sondheim and Michel Legrand.
Melissa Errico was born in New York Hospital and lived in New York City for five years while her New Jersey-raised father completed medical residency and her Brooklyn-native mother was a schoolteacher in Harlem. Both of first-generation Italian descent, her parents relocated the family to Manhasset, Long Island where her father established a medical practice in Orthopedics. Starting her professional career at the age of 12, Melissa appeared on national television in the Sunbow Entertainment production, syndicated children's TV series "The Great Space Coaster" (created by Kermit Love (original Muppet designer for Jim Henson) and Jim Martin. Errico's maternal grandmother was an operatic, lyric soprano and her grandmother's sister was a Ziegfeld Follies girl.
Errico is a graduate of Yale University. During her freshman year, Errico was asked to audition for the role of Cosette and was cast. Errico toured for over a year in the First National Company of "Les Misérables," then returned and graduated from Yale University with an honors degree in Art History & Philosophy. While a student in New Haven, Errico played Irina in "The Three Sisters" with Edward Norton. She was accepted into the Yale Graduate School of Drama but dropped out to star in "Anna Karenina" as Princess Kitty on Broadway at The Circle In The Square. Errico is a graduate of the BADA program at Oxford University where she studied acting Shakespeare and Chekhov.
Errico played Cosette in "Les Miserables" (National Tour) and Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" on Broadway. Other Broadway starring roles include "High Society," "Anna Karenina," "Dracula, The Musical," "Amour," and "Irving Berlin's White Christmas." She has six Drama Desk Award nominations including Best Actress in a Play for "Candida" and is the recipient of a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Michel Legrand's "Amour"), four Outer Critics Circle Awards, five Drama League Honors, two Helen Hayes nominations and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in "One Touch of Venus." She is the first, and only, recipient in the history of The Lortel Awards to be recognized as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical and is the only performer in the over-twenty-year history of The City Center Encores! series to win an award for their work. In 2016, she returned to City Center for another triumph in the Rodgers-Sondheim musical "Do I Hear A Waltz?" winning rave reviews, such as "an exquisite interpretation"
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