Melissa Joan Hart has a list of credits far beyond her years.  Having made her first national commercial at age 4, she is now a veteran of television, film and theater.

Hart made her debut as an author in the fall with her memoir, Melissa Explains it All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life. The memoir is published by St. Martin’s press and is currently available in bookstores.

Hart may currently be seen in the ABC Family series Melissa & Joey. She executive produces the half-hour multi-camera comedy along with her co-star Joey Lawrence. Hart portrays ‘Mel,’ the grown-up former wild child of a political family who is now a local politician herself. When her sister ends up in prison and brother-in-law flees after a scandal hits, Mel must take responsibility for her teenaged niece Lennox and pre-adolescent nephew Ryder. Spread too thin to manage by herself, help comes in the unlikely form of Joe (Lawrence) who, desperate for a job, moves in and becomes the family’s “manny.” David Kendall & Bob Young are executive producers and writers; Paula Hart also serves as executive producer. The series premiered on ABC Family on August 17, 2010 and now stands as ABC Family’s #1 series launch ever in Adults 18-49. The fourth season of Melissa & Joey will premiere on ABC Family on January 15, 2014.

Hart is best known internationally for her starring role in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, which is produced by her company Hartbreak Films in association with Viacom and aired on The WB and ABC Networks.  The show is also in syndication around the world and has inspired two “Wonderful World of Disney” movies,Sabrina Goes To Rome and Sabrina Down Under, both of which she produced and starred in after the success of the first TV movie Sabrina shot for Showtime in 1995.

Hart first made her mark in television playing the title role in Nickelodeon’s Clarissa Explains It All.  Winner of numerous Youth in Film awards for her work, Hart was nominated for a CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for Clarissa Explains It All.  In addition to Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Hart has appeared in numerous series such as Just Shoot Me and That ’70s Show and co-hosted the American Music Awards with Brandy. Hart’s episode of Law and Order: SVU, which aired Oct , 2007 had the highest ratings of the season even outpacing the season premiere.  Her ABC Family movie Holiday in Handcuffs premiered to record high ratings during the 2007 holiday season, making it ABC Family’s No. 1 telecast of all time.

On the big screen, Hart starred in the romantic comedy Drive Me Crazy, for which she won a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award. She made a memorable appearance as “yearbook girl” in the graduation night comedy Can’t Hardly Wait.  She’s recently starred and executive produced the thriller Nine Dead.

Hart made her Broadway debut opposite Martin Sheen in The Crucible. She also starred opposite William Hurt and Calista Flockhart in the Circle Repertory production of Beside Herself in 1987. In the same company’s production of Peter Hedges’ Imagining Brad, Hart did a half hour monologue on stage at the impressive age of 12 to rave reviews which opened the door for her to audition for the role in Clarissa Explains It All. She has since returned to the stage to star in the acclaimed off-Broadway production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues in 2000 and also appeared in the Los Angeles production of the show in May 2001.

In April 2010, Hart returned to the stage to star in Nora Ephron’s Off-Broadway show Love, Loss and What I Wore. She led the star-studded ensemble of Lucy DeVito, Judy Gold, Shirley Knight and Jayne Houdyshell. The play is a collection of stories based on the best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman which uses clothing and accessories and the memories they trigger to tell funny and poignant stories about women.

In addition to producing the Sabrina, the Teenage Witch franchise, Melissa and Paula Hart’s Hartbreak Films is known for producing all types of quality family entertainment. They used the enormous popularity of the show to launch a variety of Sabrina-related ventures, including Sabrina, the Animated Series and theSabrina, the Teenage Witch soundtrack, featuring songs by some impressive artists such as Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys with Hart herself covering the Blondie hit, “One Way or Another.”  In addition to a variety of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch merchandise, Hart worked with Simon and Schuster on the release of the interactive CD-Roms “Spellbound” and “Brat Attack.”

Hartbreak Films many projects have included the television movies Scream Team, Up, Up and Away, Doomrunners, Two Came Back, Silencing Mary and The Right Connections, In May 2001, Hartbreak Films produced a television movie based on Shirley Temple Black’s autobiography, Child Star, which aired on “The Wonderful World of Disney,” with Ms. Black consulting on the project.

Hart has also directed several episodes of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Disney’s Channel’s single camera show So Weird, and Nickelodeon’s multi-camera showTaina. Hart directed her short film, Mute, which she also produced.  Mute was in competition at many film festivals in 2006 including Palm Springs, Tribeca, Newport, Vail and Sarasota Film Festivals to name a few. When Hart got married in July 2003, her wedding was produced by Hartbreak as a reality series and aired on ABC Family.

Hart works actively for a variety of charities, most particularly those that benefit children.

She currently resides in Connecticut with her husband and three sons.