Personal history and family
Hart was innate around Smithtown, New York, on Long Island, and grew higher inside Sayville, New York. Her fully title is Melissa Joan Catherine Hart, Catherine being the title she chose for her confirmation in eighth grade.

Her quick Irish-American family includes her father, William Hart, her mother Paula Hart, her stepfather, television executive Leslie Gilliams, eight sisters (three of the two stepsisters) and a single brother. Virtually all of her sib own acted, among the two Elizabeth Hart, Brian Hart, Emily Hart, and Alexandra Hart-Gilliams. Sister Trisha Hart has worked as a producer. Her stepmother is the previous Lisa Hunt of Sayville.

Career
Hart's career began early. Whilst she was however the little one, she manufactured her number one TV commercial for a tub toy known as Splashy. From either so within, she appeared regularly in commercial message, making Xxv of a two prior to the age of 5. More early TV operate involved the little role in the miniseries Kane & Abel in 1985, a guest-starring role in an episode of The Equalizer in 1986, and a starring role alongside Katherine Helmond in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Christmas Snow, also in 1986.

Inside 1989, she auditioned for a Broadway production of The Crucible starring Martin Sheen, becoming an understudy to three of the lassie in the play. This paved a way for her to land a name part in the TV indicate Clarissa Explains It All. A Nickelodeon series, the comedy just about the teenage girl around everyday situations, became a large hit & aired for 5 seasons. A indicate brought her iv sequentially Young Artist Award nominations, of which she won three, & manufactured her the domestic title among U.s. teen.

In the period of her instance in "Clarissa" Hart recorded an album (under a pretext of that character) entitled This is What Na Na Means. It was mostly the novelty product & did non sell swell, receive critical attention or even place in any stock and index charts.

Fallowing a series was canceled, she attended New York University. She did non complete her degree when she resumed her acting career around 1994 when she got a lead role for the TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which eventually led to her too starring when Sabrinthe inside a television series which lasted seven seasons. Around between, she likewise worked on the series Touched by an Angel and starred in many TV flick.

Inside 1999, Melissthe landed a little a share inside a flick known as ''Can't Hardly Wait, and then starred in Drive Me Crazy, a movie that includes "(You Drive Me) Crazy", a number-one hit by Britney Spears, on its soundtrack. Hart too appeared in the music video for this song. She has appeared around more motion-picture show since Cause Us Crazy'', however none has brought her as much recognition.

Hart appeared around lingerie in a series of photos featured in the October 1999 issue of the men's magazine Maxim, when well as inside likewise revealing pictorials inside Bikini & Movieline magazines about a equivalent instance. This stimulated problems for each Hart & ABC (the network broadcasting Sabrina a Teenage Witch) since a right of first publication holder of the series, Archie Comics, regarded a series as a indicate for toddlers & pre-teens, & believed that the Maxim exposure & a incidental to article injured a indicate's wholesome image (Hart besides discussed her sex life & Sabrina swallowing games that can be played while watching a series home). Michael Silberkleit, a chairwoman & co-publisher of Archie Comics demanded that Hart either apologize or even exist as fired from either the series. She neither apologized nor was fired.

Around 2003, Hart and her production company, Hartbreak Films, produced a miniseries entitled Tying the Knot, documenting her wedding to musician Mark Wilkerson, a member of the band Course of Nature.

Around June 2005, Hart announced that she & her hubby come expecting their foremost baby within January 2006.

Filmography and work on television
Jesus, Mary & Joey (2003) Rent Control (2002) Hang In to On (2002) Backflash (2001) Not Another Teen Movie (2001) A Voyage to Atlantis: A Wasted Empire (2001) (TV) A Specials (2000) Sabrina, Down Under (1999) Drive Me Crazy (1999) Sabrina Attend Rome (1998) ''Can't Hardly Wait (1998) Silencing Mary (1998) (TV) 2 Come Back (1997) (TV) The Right Modems (1997) (TV) Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996) (TV) Sabrina, the Animated Series (1999) (TV) Twisted Desire (1996) (TV) Clarissa (1995) (TV) Personal Reunion: The Proportional Nightmare (1995) (TV) Clarissa Explains It All'' (1991) (TV)