Melissa George
publication date: Thursday, May 1, 2025 (part of May 2025)
category: Television
clue: In her home country of Australia, she gained fame for starring in a long-running soap opera while still a teenager. Since moving away, she has hunted for better roles, from thieves using aliases first, to a patient in treatment for a short heartbeat, to a mother who (twice) slapped mosquitoes on a coast.
explanation: George was in the primary cast of the TV shows Home and Away, Hunted, Thieves, Alias, The First, In Treatment, the short-lived series Heartbeat, The Slap and its American remake of the same title, and The Mosquito Coast. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky

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