Age: 55
female
Melissa Ann McCarthy (born August 26, 1970) is an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. She has received numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. McCarthy was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016, and she has been featured multiple times in annual rankings of the highest-paid actresses in the world. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #22 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. McCarthy began appearing on television and in film in the late 1990s. She first gained recognition for her role as Sookie St. James on the television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007). She played Dena on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–2009) before starring as Molly Flynn on the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly (2010–2016), for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011. McCarthy's appearances as a host on Saturday Night Live (2011–2017) led to a win for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2017. McCarthy gained critical acclaim for her performance in the comedy film Bridesmaids (2011), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to star in several commercially successful comedies, including Identity Thief (2013), The Heat(2013), Tammy (2014), St. Vincent (2014), Spy (2015), and The Boss (2016). In 2018, McCarthy received critical acclaim for portraying writer Lee Israel in the biographical film Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has since starred in the drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers (2021) and played Ursula in the musical fantasy film The Little Mermaid (2023). McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone, are the founders of the production company On the Day Productions, under which they have collaborated on several comedy films, including Life of the Party (2018), Super Intelligence (2020), and Thunder Force (2021). In 2015, she launched her clothing line for plus-sized women named Melissa McCarthy Seven7. She received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia Melissa McCarthy, article licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A year after Becca, Izzy, and Cassie accidentally resurrected the Sanderson sisters, the trio is forced to team up with the Dennison family in their quest to protect Salem from the lingering threat of a powerful witch who was accidentally resurrected by teenagers Poppy, Isabella, and Travis using a candle from Gilbert's magic shop. Poppy, the rebellious young daughter of Max and Allison Dennison and niece of Dani Dennison, doesn't believe her family's story about their encounter with the Sanderson Sisters thirty years ago. However, she is thrust into a world of witchcraft when she and her friends unleash Druscilla The Dreadful, the Elder Witch. The witch, more powerful than any witch in the history of Salem, seeks to cast a dangerous spell called the Shadow Curse. To cast the spell, she must obtain the blood of a witch with the purest heart: Becca. In order to ensure Becca's cooperation, Druscilla kidnaps Poppy, Isabella, and Travis. Becca, Izzy, and Cassie must convince the Dennisons to resurrect the only witches powerful enough to help them defeat the Elder Witch: the Sanderson Sisters. For the first time in thirty years, Max, Allison, and Dani come face-to-face with the Sanderson Sisters, and though reluctant, must put all of their differences aside to save Salem and the rest of the world from the clutches of dark magic.
