Mekenna Melvin

"Oh so fun to play a little evil ;-)"

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Mekenna Melvin is the American actress who plays Clorinda on Season Six of ABC's Once Upon a Time.

Biography
Mekenna was born and raised in Saratoga, California. She became interested in acting at a young age through spending time at a local theater with her mother, a theater director, and made her first acting appearance as Woodstock in a local performance of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the age of 5. She is a graduate of Independence High School in San Jose, California, and trained at both the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, New York and the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. She is professionally trained as an actress, dancer, and singer.

Mekenna is best known for playing Alex McHugh in the action-comedy/spy-drama television series Chuck, Angela in the medical drama Three Rivers and Stefanie Fife in the crime drama television series Lie to Me. She also co-created and starred as Amber Hannold in Amber Lake, an independent film released in 2010.

Trivia

 * Has martial arts training at the level of a first degree blackbelt, in taekwondo.