Biography
Melora Hardin (born June 29, 1967) is an American actress known for her roles as Jan Levinson on NBC's The Office, Trudy Monk on USA Network's Monk, and Tammy Cashman on Amazon Prime Video's Transparent, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Hardin starred as magazine editor-in-chief Jacqueline Carlyle on the Freeform comedy-drama The Bold Type, which aired from June 2017 to June 2021.
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Complete Filmography

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
2023
as Trudy Monk
Monk steps out of retirement as his stepdaughter's wedding turns tragic when her fiancé dies in a bungee jumping accident.
Golden Vanity
2023
as Mabel Montgomery-Mayflower
After an unhinged stage crash at a 1967 awards show, faded movie star Mabel Montgomery-Mayflower flees and barricades herself in her mansion to tape-r...

Clock
2023
as Dr. Elizabeth Simmons
On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.

Love, Classified
2022
as Emilia Bloom
Romance novelist Emilia is a whirlwind who blows back into the lives of her adult children, Taylor and Zach, under the pretense of a book signing arra...

Caged
2021
as Officer Sacks
An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal ...

Transparent: Musicale Finale
2019
as Tammy Cashman
When the Pfeffermans face a life-changing loss, they begin a journey hilarious and melancholy, brazen and bold. As they face this new transition, they...

Cruel Hearts
2018
as Grace
A young man, Guy, discovers the woman he's been sleeping with is not only married, but married to Burt Walker, a notorious low-level crime boss. Worri...

Anything
2018
as Rita
After the death of his wife, a man moves from Mississippi to a run-down Hollywood apartment, where he meets someone new.

Self/less
2015
as Judy
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy you...

An American Girl: Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight
2014
as Mrs. Palmer
Isabelle is an inspired dancer, but when her sister and a classmate make her doubt herself, she's motivated by a ballerina to find her own way to shin...

Zombie Hamlet
2012
as Pam
Desperate filmmaker Osric Taylor dreams of making his civil war Hamlet but when production funding dries up, he agrees to take southern matron Hester ...

Beauty and the Least
2012
as Mary Andrews
When they say “love is blind” they must have been talking about Amy and Ben. Amy is a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past. Ben is a scruffy s...

I Melt with You
2011
as Jane
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive ...

Knucklehead
2010
as Mary
A fight promoter deeply in debt to his crooked rival and desperate for a new fighter catches a break when a 450 pound church handyman who has spent hi...

You
2009
as Miranda
You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcom...

You
2009
Director, Producer
You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcom...

Hannah Montana: The Movie
2009
as Lorelai
When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change...

17 Again
2009
as Principal Jane Masterson
On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one m...

Mom, Dad and Her
2008
as Emma
Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol poisoning, Sydney's desperate single mother sends ...

27 Dresses
2008
as Maureen
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.

The Comebacks
2007
as Barb Fields
Out-of-luck coach Lambeau Fields takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this lif...

The Violin
2007
as Gertrude Bloch
A teenage boy rediscovers his courage and love of life after being reunited with an old flame in the most horrific place imaginable - a concentration ...

Drive Thru
2007
as Marcia Carpenter
A high-school student must save townspeople from a murderous clown who works at a fast-food place.

Boxboarders!
2007
as Ruth Keene
A pair of thrill-seeking nerds pioneer a new extreme craze that doesn't so much sweep the nation as portions of a small faction of their high school. ...

The Dukes
2007
as Diane
The Dukes,a Doo Wop group, were on top of the world at 17, now are struggling for survival in 2008. Their manager is desperately trying to get them wo...

Thank You for Smoking
2005
as Interviewer
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remai...

Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
2005
as Linda Evans
Behind the scenes of Aaron Spelling's nighttime soap opera.

El padrino: The Latin Godfather
2004
as Jane
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns...

The Hollywood Mom's Mystery
2004
as Summer Rossner
Lucy Freers has a long-standing marriage, a nine-year old daughter, and a great family life in the suburbs of Hollywood. Great, that is, until the Hol...

The Hot Chick
2002
as Carol
Not only is Jessica Spencer the most popular girl in school -- she is also the meanest. But things change for the attractive teen when a freak acciden...

Certain Guys
2000
as Mary Beth
Five old friends reunite in Dallas for one buddy's wedding. Over the course of a week, each guy faces a major crisis - Mitch loses the love of his lif...

Seven Girlfriends
2000
as Laura
Jesse is charming, romantic, and he knows how to pop the question; he just can't face marriage. So, when he and Hannah split up during the same week t...

Tower of Terror
1999
as Claire Poulet
A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.
Erasable You
1998
as Calamity
A man hires an assassin to kill his money-grabbing first wife.

The Undercover Kid
1997
as Clyde
Nine-year-old Max Anderson has a big problem: he knows about an evil plot to kill the president, and no one believes him. Adults don’t usually believe...
Things That Go Bump
1997
as Chloe Garrett
It's New Orleans on the eve of Mardi Gras celebrations. Three kids call upon the legend of Sleepy Head to seek vengeance on their parents. Officer "Bu...

Absolute Power
1997
as Christy Sullivan
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. H...

Chameleon
1996
as Jill Hallman
An undercover agent uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.

The Pornographer
1994
as Sasha Leon Hoffner
A bitter, manipulative painter sets out to ruin his saintly pornographer friend.

Reckless Kelly
1993
as Robin Banks
A satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his ...

Miles from Nowhere
1992
as Teresa
Frank and Cam have been friends all their lives, Cam is on the High School Football team, coached by his dad, Frank is a promising runner, with a drea...

The Rocketeer
1991
as South Seas Singer
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost...
Shangri-La Plaza
1990
as Amy
"Shangri-La Plaza" is a musical-comedy pilot made for CBS-TV in 1990. The all-sung “Shangri-La Plaza” was directed by Nick Castle and written and cre...

Lambada
1990
as Sandy Thomas
Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acc...

Big Man on Campus
1989
as Cathy
In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of UCLA. He discovers life as two students bring him o...

The Jeweller's Shop
1989
as Monica
Burt Lancaster stars as the titular merchant in this classic adaptation of Pope John Paul II's best-selling play "The Jeweller's Shop," an inspiring d...

Soul Man
1986
as Whitney Dunbar
A white prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qual...

Papa Was a Preacher
1986
as Janette
Edwin Porter, a Methodist minister, is sent to a little church in the small town of Sterling, Texas, to try to save it from financial insolvency. The ...

Iron Eagle
1986
as Katie
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds...

Little House: Look Back to Yesterday
1983
as Michele Pierson
Albert Quinn Ingalls wants to be a doctor. But soon he discovers that he is fatally ill. He decides to spend the rest of his life in Walnut Grove. Mea...

Haywire
1980
as Brooke Hayward, age 11 (uncredited)
Based on the autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, who grows up in the g...

What Are Friends For?
1980
as Amy Warner
Two 12-year-old girls going through a divorce make a pact never to divorce their friendship.

The North Avenue Irregulars
1979
as Carmel
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get t...
Something Queer at the Library
1978
as Jill
Based on the story of the same title by Elizabeth Levy, about two children whose discovery of some mutilated library books strangely links up with a d...

33 Liberty Lane
N/A
A story of four women who join forces to start a phone-sex company.