Melissa Errico is an American actress, singer, recording artist and writer. She is perhaps best known for her leading Broadway musical roles such as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus, and as an interpreter of the work of Stephen Sondheim and Michel Legrand. 　　Melissa Errico was born in New York Hospital and lived in New York City for five years while her New Jersey-raised father completed medical residency and her Brooklyn-native mother was a schoolteacher in Harlem. Both of first-generation Italian descent, her parents relocated the family to Manhasset, Long Island where her father established a medical practice in Orthopedics. Starting her professional career at the age of 12, Melissa appeared on national television in the Sunbow Entertainment production, syndicated children's TV series The Great Space Coaster, created by Kermit Love (original Muppet designer for Jim Henson) and Jim Martin.Errico's maternal grandmother was an operatic, lyric soprano and her grandmother's sister was a Ziegfeld Follies girl.