Melissa Etheridge

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RECENT CREDITS

Late Show With David Letterman (TV) Sep. 27, 2007

An Inconvenient Truth (FILM) May. 24, 2006

Tonight Show With Jay Leno (TV) Nov. 15, 2005

Dateline NBC (TV) Oct. 16, 2005

Oprah Winfrey (TV) Sep. 29, 2005

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HIGHLIGHTS

Began playing guitar at age 8.

At age 11, she sang a song that she had written, "Lonely as a Child," in a talent contest.

Island Records founder Chris Blackwell was so taken with Etheridge that, after seeing her in concert for the first time at a Long Island, Cal., bar in 1986, he signed her on the spot.

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Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)

Role

Category

An Inconvenient Truth 2006

Songwriter

Film

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael 1990

Songwriter, Composer (Music Score)

Film

Weeds 1987

Songwriter, Composer (Music Score)

Film

After Stonewall: From the Riots to the Millennium

Narrator

Equality Rocks

Host

King of the Hill -Singing Hippie/Topaz

Voice

Phish and Wildlife (2004) -Singing Hippie/Topaz

Voice

TV Episode

My Night at the Grammys

Host

Sissy Duckling

Voice

Women Rock! Our Journey with Melissa Etheridge

Executive Producer

Teresa's Tattoo 1994 -Hooker

Songwriter, Actor

Film

It Was a Wonderful Life 1993

Composer (Music Score)

Film

Jackie's Back

Actor

Film

Scenes from the Goldmine

Songwriter

Film

Brother Bear 2: The Moose Are on the Loose

Songwriter

Film

After Stonewall -Narrator

Actor

Film

Highlights

Began playing guitar at age 8.

At age 11, she sang a song that she had written, "Lonely as a Child," in a talent contest.

Island Records founder Chris Blackwell was so taken with Etheridge that, after seeing her in concert for the first time at a Long Island, Cal., bar in 1986, he signed her on the spot.

Publically came out at the Triangle Ball, the first gay-and-lesbian inauguration party (for President Bill Clinton) in 1993.

Achieved a personal dream when her musical hero, Bruce Springsteen, joined her to sing "Thunder Road" on her MTV Unplugged appearance in 1995.

Was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and underwent chemotherapy for two months.