Melanie Wilson is an American

United States

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 actress best known for her co-starring role as Jennifer Lyons-Appleton in the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 sitcom Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers (TV series)

Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for eight seasons from March 25, 1986, to August 6, 1993, on the ABC television network. Created by Dale McRaven, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean...

. Her other television credits include Family Matters

Family Matters (TV series)

Family Matters is an American sitcom about a middle-class African-American family living in Chicago, Illinois, which ran on national television for nine full seasons. The series was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers, but revolves around the Winslow family...

, Step by Step, Simon & Simon

Simon & Simon

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and The A-Team

The A-Team

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. She did a week of The $100,000 Pyramid

Pyramid (game show)

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in 1988.

In January 2009, she appeared in the Lifetime Television

Lifetime Television

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 network film Prayers for Bobby

Prayers for Bobby

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.

She is the daughter of actor Dick Wilson

Dick Wilson

Dick Wilson, born Riccardo DiGuglielmo , was a British-born American character actor who played the role of finicky grocery store manager Mr...

, the former commercial spokesman ("Mr. Whipple

Mr. Whipple

Mr. George Whipple is a fictional supermarket manager featured in television commercials and print advertisements that ran in the United States and Canada from 1964 to 1985 for Charmin toilet paper...

") for Charmin

Charmin

Charmin is a brand-name of toilet paper manufactured by Procter & Gamble.-History:The Charmin name was first created in 1928 by the Hoberg Paper Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1950, Hoberg changed its name to Charmin Paper Company and continued to produce bath tissue, paper napkins, and other...

toilet paper.

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