Bellamy Young

Bellamy Young is an American actress, producer and singer who grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and studied English and theater at Yale University before beginning her career on stage. She appeared Off-Broadway in Merrily We Roll Along and Faust, and in 1997 took the role of Mary in the original Broadway cast of The Life. Her first television part came in 1995 on the soap opera Another World, and she made her film debut in 1999 with Black and White. She went on to more than 30 guest appearances on series including The X-Files, ER, Frasier, The West Wing and Grey's Anatomy, and appeared in films such as We Were Soldiers (2002), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and In My Sleep (2010). She is best known for playing Mellie Grant on Scandal, which brought her a Critics' Choice Television Award in 2014, and later starred as Jessica Whitly in Prodigal Son.