Melissa Errico | |
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Born | Melissa Errico March 23, 1970 New York, New York |
Occupation(s) | Actress Singer Recording Artist Writer |
Years active | 1982–present |
Spouse | 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.[1] 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.[2] Errico's maternal grandmother was an operatic, lyric soprano and her grandmother's sister was a Ziegfeld Follies girl.[3][4]
Errico is a graduate of Yale University. During her freshman year, Errico was asked to audition for the role of Cosette[5][6] 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 [5] in Art History & Philosophy.[7] While a student in New Haven, Errico played Irina in The Three Sisters with Edward Norton.[8] 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 Theatre. Errico is a graduate of the BADA program at Oxford University where she studied acting Shakespeare and Chekhov.[9]
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),[10] four Outer Critics Circle Awards, five Drama League Awards, two Helen Hayes Award nominations and the Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in One Touch of Venus. She was the first musical actress to receive the "Outstanding Lead Actress" Lortel Award when the category combined plays and musicals[11] 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".[12]
Role | Production | Location | Year |
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Cosette | Les Misérables | USA | 1988 |
Princess Kitty Scherbatssky | Anna Karenina | Broadway | 1992 |
Eliza Doolittle | My Fair Lady | Broadway | 1993 |
Princess Maria | Call Me Madam | City Center Encores! New York | 1995 |
Venus | One Touch Of Venus | City Center Encores! New York | 1996 |
Gwendolen Fairfax | The Importance Of Being Earnest | Off - Broadway | 1996 |
Betty Comden | Make Someone Happy | New York | 1997 |
Tracy Lord | High Society | Broadway | 1998 |
Barbara | Major Barbara | Off - Broadway | 1998 |
Anna Karenina | Anna Karenina | Off - Broadway | 2000 |
Anne Boleyn & Princess Elizabeth | Rex | Off - Broadway | 2000 |
Isabelle | Amour | Broadway | 2002 |
Dot/Marie | Sunday In The Park With George | The Kennedy Center | 2002 |
Eliza Doolittle | My Fair Lady | Hollywood Bowl | 2003 |
Polly Peachum | The Threepenny Opera | Williamstown Theater Festival | 2003 |
Mother | Aunt Dan and Lemon | Off - Broadway | 2003 |
Mina | Dracula - The Musical | Broadway | 2004 |
Sharon McLonergan | Finian's Rainbow | Off - Broadway | 2004 |
Venus | One Touch Of Venus | Fully staged concert, Avery Fisher Hall, New York | 2004 |
Guinevere | Camelot | Fully staged concert, Hollywood Bowl | 2005 |
Sharon McLonergan | Finian's Rainbow | Westport Country Playhouse | 2005 |
Maria Rainer | The Sound Of Music | Fully staged concert, Hollywood Bowl | 2006 |
Kate | Alive In The World | New York | 2007 |
Betty Haynes | White Christmas | Broadway | 2009 |
Candida | Candida | Off - Broadway | 2010 |
Fiona | Brigadoon | Fully staged concert, Broadway | 2010 |
Helen | The Gift Of The Gorgon | New York | 2011 |
Guinevere | Camelot | Fully staged concert, Broadway | 2011 |
Nancy | Oliver! | Fully staged concert, Broadway | 2012 |
Clara | Passion | Off - Broadway | 2013 |
Annie Savoy | Bull Durham - The Musical | Atlanta | 2014 |
Maria Cosway | More Between Heaven And Earth | Off - Broadway | 2014 and 2015 |
Leona Samish | Do I Hear A Waltz? | City Center Encores! | 2016 |
Sharon | Finian's Rainbow | Off - Broadway | 2016-2017 |
Lilli Vanessi/Katharine | Kiss Me, Kate | Bay Street Theater | 2017 |
Variety Magazine included Errico in its list of potential 2016 Emmy Awards contenders for her role on Showtime's Billions.[14] She also played the recurring role of Catherine on Season One of The Knick[15] and was a series regular on Darren Star's Central Park West.[16]
Show | Role | Year |
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The Gaffigan Show | Gloria | 2016 |
Billions | June | 2015 |
The Knick | Catherine Christiansen | 2014 |
The Good Wife | Ingrid Ballantine | 2013 |
Blue Bloods | Rivka Morganthal | 2013 |
Martha Stewart Living | Herself | 2012 |
A Gifted Man | Julie Tucker | 2011 |
Good Morning America | as Betty Haynes | 2009 |
Six Degrees | Sarah | 2006 |
Sci-fi Investigates | Herself | 2006 |
M.O.N.Y (pilot) | Mrs Capanelli | 2006 |
Miss Match | Laurel | 2003 |
Law and Order | Lindsay Tucker | 2003 |
57th Annual Tony Awards | Herself | 2003 |
Short Talks On The Universe - Mike Nichols benefit performance | Herself | 2002 |
The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Herself | 2002 |
Ed | Liz Stevens | 2001 |
Neurotic Tendencies | 2001 | |
Norm | Kim Cattino | 2001 |
The Fighting Fitzgeralds (pilot) | 2001 | |
Smog (pilot) | 1999 | |
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade | as Tracy Lord | 1998 |
Kennedy Center's 25th Anniversary | Herself | 1996 |
Central Park West | Alex Bartoli Fairchild | 1995 - 1996 |
The Cosby Mysteries | Tricia Scott | 1995 |
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade | as Eliza Doolittle | 1993 |
As The World Turns | Rebecca | 1987 |
The Great Space Coaster | 1982 |
Errico has appeared in pilots for new shows:
Film | Role | Year |
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Broadway - The Next Generation | Herself | 2016 |
Max Rose | Voice | 2013 |
Patrimony | Caroline | 2011 |
Loverboy | Miss Silken | 2005 |
Life or Something Like It | Andrea | 2002 |
Mockingbird Don't Sing | Sandra Tannen | 2001 |
Frequency | Samantha Thomas | 2000 |
Picture This | Eve Weidegger | 1999 |
Bury The Evidence | The wife | 1998 |
Loose Women | Gail | 1997 |
In 2013, Errico recorded the theme song for the movie Max Rose which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The soundtrack features an original score by Michel Legrand and Errico sang the main title track, "Hurry Home".
Errico's recording of a song from David Shire's new musical "Table" was aired in April 2015 on NPR radio on The Jonathan Schwartz show for WYNC.[22]
Her appearances include concerts at The Kennedy Center Opera House, Avery Fisher/David Geffen Music Hall, Wolf Trap, Severance Hall, 54 Below, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Café Carlyle. She reprised her performance as Venus at City Center Encores! Broadway Bash! [23] in November 2001. Errico made her London debut in May 2008 singing in "Jerry Herman's Broadway" [24] at the London Palladium. She has taken part in three Symphony Space Wall to Wall events to commemorate Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Weill & Richard Rodgers in NYC. In November 2015, she debuted her new one-woman show at Joe's Pub, New York co-written with close collaborator Adam Gopnik.[25] Errico has sung with such symphonies as The Cleveland Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra, The London Philharmonic, The Utah Symphony, The Brussels Philharmonic, and has toured with conductors Marvin Hamlisch [26](NSO) and Michael Tilson Thomas (New World Symphony). She appeared in March 2016 at Lincoln Center in a Judy Garland concert[27] moderated by Adam Gopnik.
She has 2 siblings – Mike Errico and Melanie Errico. She met her husband, former tennis professional and ESPN sports commentator Patrick McEnroe when they were in grade school together.[18] They married 19 December 1998 at the Holy Trinity Church on W. 82nd Street.[28] The couple has three daughters.
Errico has written lyrics – "Gentle Child" appears on her 2008 solo recording, "Lullabies and Wildflowers" and authored "Musings" – which details the chronology of her album Legrand Affair. She was principal speaker at the Annual Broadway Blessing in 2013.[29][30]
She has also penned columns in The New York Times discussing returning to ingenue roles later in life[31] and her experience as a headliner performer on a themed cruise.[32].
Errico founded the original Bowery Babes in 2005 and maintains her seat on the Board of Directors for this New York based non-profit 501-c3 organization. Errico sang on June 1, 2015 at Merkin Concert Hall in support of The Ali Forney Center, the nation's largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth.[33]
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