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Melissa George (born 6 August 1976; age 47) is an Australian actress who played Vina in the Star Trek: Discovery second season episode "If Memory Serves".
George is best known in her native Australia for her role as Angel Parrish in the soap opera Home and Away, which she played for 466 episodes between 1993 and 1996.
Other notable roles in her career include the character of Lauren Reed in the third and fourth seasons of Alias in 2003-2004, created by J.J. Abrams' and executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci with music composed by Michael Giacchino, co-starring Victor Garber and Greg Grunberg.
Her feature film appearances include Dark City (1998), Mulholland Drive (2001, with Michael John Anderson, Geno Silva, Wayne Grace, and Blake Lindsley), Down with Love (2003, with Warren Munson, Michael Ensign, Jeri Ryan, David Doty, and Jude Ciccolella), The Amityville Horror (2005, with Jimmy Bennett and Rachel Nichols), Derailed (2005), and the thriller The Betrayed (2008, co-starring Oded Fehr and Alice Krige, and featuring Kevan Kase).