Melissa Farman

Melissa never knew her mother Jackie's famous godmother (the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis), but she learned all about the world of celebrity politics after playing Bristol Palin in the HBO telefilm Game Change. The HBO project starred Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris. Melissa, who is of French, British and Italian descent, was born in New York City and raised in Paris, France, far away from Wasilla, Alaska, where the abstinence activist she portrayed was reared. Melissa's parents and their families were instrumental in the world of early aviation and they wanted their daughter to (figuratively) embrace the open skies, too. Having a near-photographic memory, Melissa excelled in academics (graduated with top honors), but she was drawn to the world of art, as well. She studied ballet and jazz and connected especially to poetry at an early age after being assigned to read Victor Hugo's Tomorrow, at Dawn, which deals with the poet's feelings about the untimely death of his