Melissa Farman

Melissa Farman is an actress who grew up in Paris after being born in New York City. At ten she joined a bilingual acting workshop in Paris for professional actors, and at thirteen she spent a year at a Boston boarding school to improve her English. A manager noticed her in an acting class and encouraged her to remain in Hollywood, and she soon obtained her Screen Actors Guild card for playing a young Danielle Rousseau on the ABC series Lost. She also appeared in Cold Case, NCIS and Law & Order: SVU. For HBO she played Bristol Palin in Game Change (2012), which featured Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris. In HBO's award-winning Temple Grandin (2010) she played Alice, Temple's blind college roommate, opposite Claire Danes. She had put off a business degree at the University of Pennsylvania to look for artistic opportunities in Los Angeles.