Melissa Errico is an American actress, songwriter, and singer.
Born in Manhattan, Errico moved to Manhasset on Long Island at an early age. As a child, she studied ballet and gymnastics but was sidelined by a knee injury. Her interest in theater was sparked when she appeared in a Girl Scouts musical production and was cemented by a summer spent at an arts camp.
During her freshman year at Yale, Errico was cast as Cosette in the first national touring company of Les Misérables. She interrupted her studies for three semesters but eventually went back to New Haven and received her degree. From there she went to Oxford to study acting in programs dedicated to Shakespeare and Chekhov. She returned to Yale's graduate school but withdrew to make her Broadway debut in a musical adaptation of Anna Karenina at Circle in the Square in 1992.
Additional stage credits include the 1993 revival of My Fair Lady, High Society, Amour, and Dracula, the Musical. She was selected by Stephen Sondheim to star in "Sunday In The Park With George" at The Kennedy Center, and is a favorite at The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles where she starred in "My Fair Lady" (John Lithgow), "Camelot" (Jeremy Irons), and "The Sound of Music" (Marni Nixon/John Schneider).
Errico was a regular on the 1995 television series Central Park West. In the 2009-2010 NY theater season, she made a triumphant return to Broadway since having three daughters and starred in the Rosemary Clooney role in "White Christmas" followed by an acclaimed performance as the title role in George Bernard Shaw's "Candida".
Errico's brother Mike is a singer-songwriter. She married her childhood sweetheart, tennis pro Patrick McEnroe, on December 19, 1998 and became the sister-in-law of John McEnroe. Errico and McEnroe have three daughters: Victoria Penny, born 2006 and twins Juliette and Diana, born in 2008.