Melanie Wilson (born on October 14, 1961) is an American actress.
Wilson is best known for her co-starring role as Jennifer Lyons-Appleton in the ABC sitcom Perfect Strangers.
Her other television credits include Family Matters, Step by Step, Simon & Simon and The A-Team. She did a week of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1988.
In 2009, she appeared in the Lifetime Television network film Prayers for Bobby.
She is the daughter of actor Dick Wilson, the former commercial spokesman ("Mr. Whipple") for Charmin toilet paper.
Melanie Wilson (born 25 June 1984 in Southampton) is a British rower who competed for the GB rowing team. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's quadruple sculls.
She spent her early years in Japan and Hong Kong before moving to the UK in 2002 to take an honours degree in Biochemistry and Genetics at the University of Nottingham. After graduating she spent 6 months in Kilifi, Kenya working on research into malaria under the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. In 2007 she completed a Master’s degree in Biochemical Engineering at UCL before enrolling in Imperial College London to sit for a post-graduate degree in medicine. After she was selected to join the GB Rowing team she suspended her medical studies in 2010 to focus on competing for a place in a GB boat in the London 2012 Olympics.
Wilson withdrew from full-time competitive rowing in September 2013 to resume her medical studies.
Wilson has a rowing scholarship from Imperial College London and competes at club level in the colours of Imperial College Boat Club. She lives in Hammersmith, London.