Melody Anderson

• Name — Melody Anderson • Born — 3 December 1955 • Birthplace — Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • Education — Carleton University (BA) New York University (MSW) • Known for — All My Children Flash Gordon Firewalker • Occupation — * Actress • social worker • public speaker • Years Active — 1976–present

After high school, Anderson completed a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. She served a brief stint as an on-air reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before travelling to Southeast Asia and Australia. Anderson appeared in the first 1977 Victoria's Secret catalog and also appeared as a Rigid Tools model.

Returning to North America, Anderson's first national exposure was as a guest star in the 1977 series Logan's Run and as a "Sweathog" in a 1977 episode of Welcome Back, Kotter. She made numerous guest appearances on television, including Archie Bunker's Place, Battlestar Galactica, Dallas, T. J. Hooker, CHiPs, the pilot episode of The A-Team and The Fall Guy. She had recurring roles on St. Elsewhere and Jake and the Fatman. She was the female lead of the NBC 1983 series Manimal. She was a guest star in the Murder, She Wrote episode "Prediction: Murder" in 1989. Anderson played the female lead Dale Arden in Flash Gordon (1980) and Janet Gillis in Dead and Buried (1981). In 1983, she played the title role in a made-for-television film called Policewoman Centerfold, in which her character, a divorced police officer, is fired after posing nude for a men's magazine (based loosely on the true story of Springfield, Ohio patrolwoman Barbara Schantz, who was subsequently fired from her job after posing nude in Playboy magazine in the early 1980s). In 1986, she appeared with Nicolas Cage in The Boy in Blue and with Chuck Norris in Firewalker. She starred in the made-for-television movie Beverly Hills Madam (1986), which starred Faye Dunaway. From August, 1992 to July, 1993, Anderson assumed the role of long running character Natalie Marlowe, and briefly her twin sister Janet Dillon, on the soap opera All My Children from Kate Collins. She starred as Edie Adams in the television film Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, opposite Jeff Goldblum as Ernie Kovacs and played the coveted role of Marilyn Monroe in the television movie Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair (1993). Her last television appearance was in 1995 as a guest star in the short-lived CBS revival of Burke's Law. Anderson has made appearances at genre conventions, such as the October 2009 Big Apple Convention in Manhattan.

Anderson is licensed as a Certified EMDR Clinician/Therapist and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York and California. She facilitates therapy groups at several treatment centers in the Los Angeles area. An international lecturer and media spokesperson on addictions and the family, she has made presentations on substance abuse and other mental health-related areas of study.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1977 — Welcome Back, Kotter — Blonde Sweathog — Episode: "Sweathog Back-to-School Special" • 1978 — Logan's Run — Shelia — Episode: "Carousel" • 1979 — Pleasure Cove — Julie — Television film • Elvis — Bonnie • Battlestar Galactica — Brenda Maxwell — Episode: "Experiment in Terra" • B. J. and the Bear — Toni — Episode: "Wheels of Fortune" • 1982 — Archie Bunker's Place — Cheryl — Episode: "Gary's Ex" • Dallas — Linda Farlow — Episode: "The Big Ball" • T. J. Hooker — Kate Nichols — Episode: "Terror at the Academy" • data-sort-value="Fall Guy, The" | The Fall Guy — Mary / Mary Walker — 2 episodes • 1983 — CHiPs — Emily — Episode: "Day of the Robot" • data-sort-value="A-Team, The" | The A-Team — Avon — Episode: "Mexican Slayride" • St. Elsewhere — Nurse Jill Roberts — 5 episodes • Manimal — Brooke McKenzie — 8 episodes • Policewoman Centerfold — Jennifer Oaks — Television film • 1984 — Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter — Edie Adams • High School U.S.A. — Cindy Franklin • 1986 — Hotel — Lauren Moffat — Episode: "Triangles" • Beverly Hills Madam — Claudia Winston — Television film • Philip Marlowe, Private Eye — Rhonda Farr — Episode: "Blackmailers Don't Shoot" • 1987 — Deep Dark Secrets — Julianne Wakefield — Television film, AKA Intimate Betrayal • 1989 — Murder, She Wrote — Katherine Aaron — Episode: "Prediction: Murder" • data-sort-value="Hitchhiker, The" | The Hitchhiker — Sterling — Episode: "The Cruelest Cut" • Final Notice — Kate Davis — Television film • 1990 — Hitler's Daughter — Sharon Franklin / Mary Lipscomb • 1991–1992 — Jake and the Fatman — Neely Capshaw — 6 episodes • 1992–1993 — All My Children — Natalie Marlowe / Janet Dillon — 61 episodes • 1993 — Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair — Marilyn Monroe — Television film • 1995 — Burke's Law — Alexandra Kohl — Episode: "Who Killed the World's Greatest Chef?"

Melody Anderson is recorded with the occupation orator. Recorded as orator, actress and social worker.