Melanie Hutsell was born in Maryville, Tennessee, right at the foothills of the Smokey Mountains near Dollywood. She was shy as a little girl, but would slowly come out of her shell as the years went by. When Melanie was asked by her Freshman English teacher to perform a soliloquy from "Romeo and Juliet", she was absolutely terrified, but after ...
She was nearly fired from Saturday Night Live (1975) after the 1991-1992 season but returned due to the popularity of her portrayal of the character Jan from The Brady Bunch (1969).
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Attended Heritage High School in Maryville, Tennessee.
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Played "Jan Brady" onstage in "Real Live Brady Bunch", a character she went on to portray on Saturday Night Live (1975).