Melanie Hutsell is an American comedic actress best known for her tenure on Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

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Hutsell was born in Maryville, Tennessee

Maryville, Tennessee

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. She began her career starring in a Chicago

Chicago

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 stage production, The Real Live Brady Bunch in 1990. The theatre shows consisted of eight actual episodes of the cult classic

Cult Classic

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 TV show The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch

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, with Hutsell cast as Jan Brady. The company toured to New York City

New York City

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, where Hutsell was chosen for the seventeenth season of SNL.

Hutsell was a featured player from 1991–1993, and a regular cast member in the 1993–1994 season. She would eventually reprise her Jan Brady portrayal on a series of Weekend Update

Weekend Update

Weekend Update is a Saturday Night Live sketch that comments on and parodies current events. It is the show's longest running recurring sketch, having been on since the show's first broadcast, and is typically presented in the middle of the show immediately after the first musical performance...

appearances, making it Hutsell's most recognizable recurring character. Hutsell also played a sorority pledge named Di in a series of sketches about the sorority Delta Delta Delta

Delta Delta Delta

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, along with Siobhan Fallon and Beth Cahill

Beth Cahill

Beth Cahill is an American television actress who is best known for having been a featured cast member on Saturday Night Live during the 1991–1992 season. She was also a writer for some episodes...

. Her most notable impressions were of Tonya Harding

Tonya Harding

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 and Tori Spelling

Tori Spelling

Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling is an American actress. Spelling became known in the early 1990s for her role as Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210. Spelling then had roles in a string of made-for-television films, such as A Friend to Die For and Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?...

, an actress whom she resembled very closely.

After her film Can't Stop Dancing (1999), Hutsell quit show business

Show business

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 to raise her daughter, Carly Rose.

Hutsell is currently returning from retirement. She appeared in He's Such a Girl, a 2008

2008 in film

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 comedy also starring Ed Begley, Jr.

Ed Begley, Jr.

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In May 2009 she appeared as a guest on "Best Dishes" with Paula Deen

Paula Deen

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 on the Food Network

Food Network

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. She announced that she is making a comeback, focusing on writing.

She played the role of Carol in the 2011 comedy hit
Bridesmaids

Bridesmaids (2011 film)

Bridesmaids is a 2011 American romantic comedy film written by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, directed by Paul Feig and produced by Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, and Clayton Townsend. The plot centers on Annie ....

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