# Blue Bloods -- Who Played Melanie Mains? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617 "2012-03-03T04:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617/1 "2012-03-03T04:09:05Z")
Tonight’s episode featured a TV reporter as Tom Seleck’s love interest. She reminded me of a younger Stockard Channing. Any idea who it was? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617/2 "2012-03-03T05:39:37Z")
[Margaret Colin](http://www.cbs.com/shows/blue_bloods/photos/84173/season-2-episode-16/84182) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617/3 "2012-03-03T05:59:19Z")
Oh, it’s Blair’s mom. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617/4 "2012-03-03T18:42:04Z")
If it matters, I had to go searching to find her name, but I had the first thought that she might have been either: [Catherine Dent](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219748/) [Elizabeth Perkins](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001610/) or somebody else who looks like them. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617/5 "2012-03-04T14:02:25Z")
Best known (by me) as Jeff Goldblum’s love interest in Independence Day. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617/6 "2012-03-04T23:37:23Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > If it matters, I had to go searching to find her name, but I had the first thought that she might have been either: > > [Catherine Dent](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219748/) > [Elizabeth Perkins](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001610/) > > or somebody else who looks like them. She does have a Perkins vibe going. ---
**Author:** ![untagleebin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de053/32.png) [@untagleebin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/untagleebin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617/7 "2012-03-05T15:42:52Z")
Her name is Margaret Colin. I best know her as the first lady in Independence Day. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617/8 "2012-03-05T16:19:35Z")
> [@untagleebin](#): > > Her name is Margaret Colin. I best know her as the first lady in Independence Day. Close but no cigar. Mary McDonnell played the First Lady. Margaret Colin played the president’s aide and ex-wife of Jeff Glodblum. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617/9 "2012-03-05T17:32:13Z")
I know her best as the wife of award-winning soap opera actor Justin Deas, whom she met when they were both appearing on _As the World Turns_. She also appeared in one of my favorite movies, _True Believer_ with James Woods and Robert Downey, Jr. She has many, many television guest roles, but none of the shows in which she has been cast as a regular have been successful. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-who-played-melanie-mains/614617/10 "2012-03-06T15:55:48Z")
She was in Something Wild with Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffin. A Jonathan Demme film. She had a very small part.