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Melissa Rivers
Melissa Warburg Rosenberg (born January 20, 1968), better known as Melissa Rivers, is an American actress, television host and producer. She is the daughter of the late Joan River…
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Melissa Warburg Rosenberg (born January 20, 1968), better known as Melissa Rivers, is an American actress, television host and producer. She is the daughter of the late Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg. As an actress, she has had roles in television shows including Beverly Hills, 90210, Silk Stalkings, The Comeback. In 1998, she also appeared in the sci-fi/comedy made-for-television movie Men in White and in the 1999 film The Big Tease, a comedy directed by Kevin Allen starring Craig Ferguson. Additionally, she teamed up with her mother Joan Rivers, portraying themselves in the 1994 celebrity docudrama Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story. In the early 1990s, she branched out on the pre-show red carpet, interviewing celebrities on nationally televised awards shows. Rivers, who has hosted various events and served as a producer for the E! Network, has hosted two of the channel’s highest-rated specials: Oh Baby! Melissa’s Guide to Pregnancy and Oh Toddler! Surviving the Early Years (aired in January 2002). With her mother, she hosted fashion on the red carpet interviews for the E! cable network. In 2003, they left her red carpet pre-show on E! to accept a more lucrative deal with the TV Guide Channel valued at between $6 and 8 million. Also in 2002, she appeared on the ABC Network competitive reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. She has been a regular guest on the webcast show Tom Green's House Tonight. In 2013, she was a co-creator and co-producer of Joan's YouTube web series In Bed With Joan, a fifteen to thirty minute show with a new video uploaded weekly in which Joan interviews a celebrity about a wide variety of personal topics in Joan's bed, with Melissa conducting interview questions for the last several minutes.
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2024
Studio One Forever
Movie Self
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2023
Commitment to Life
Movie Self
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
One Killer Question
TV show Self
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2022
Piers Morgan Uncensored
TV show Self
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2021
For Real: The Story of Reality TV
TV show Self
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2018
25 Words or Less
TV show Self
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2015
Joy
Movie Joan Rivers
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2013
Deal With It
TV show Self
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2011
Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?
TV show
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2010
The Talk
TV show Self
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2010
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Movie Self
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2009
Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers
Movie Self
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
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2008
Celebrity Family Feud
TV show Self
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2005
Hell's Kitchen
TV show Self - Restaurant Patron
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2005
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber
Movie Self
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2004
Project Runway
TV show Self - Guest Judge
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2004
First Daughter
Movie Melissa Rivers
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2004
Vampires: Out for Blood
Movie Talk Show Host
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2004
The Soup
TV show Self
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2004
Dave the Barbarian
TV show Princess Irmoplotz (voice)
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2004
The L Word
TV show Self
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2003
I'm with Her
TV show Melissa Rivers
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2003
Comedy Central Roasts
TV show Self
- 2003
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2003
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
TV show Self
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV show Self - Guest
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2002
Pet Star
TV show Self - Judge
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2001
Good Day Live
TV show Self
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2000
Best Actress
Movie Self
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1999
The Big Tease
Movie Dianne Abbott
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1999
Providence
TV show Self
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1998
Men in White
Movie Female Reporter #1
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1997
The View
TV show Self
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1997
Just Shoot Me!
TV show Herself
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1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV show
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1994
Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story
Movie Melissa Rivers
