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On staying thin.
Melina: Skinny? Listen, my husband's a chef. He cooks only for me now, and our two kids because I won't let him open another restaurant again - but I'm not skinny. I'm Greek. I eat.
Melina: It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life," she says. "No matter where you are, it gives the semblance of normalcy to my crazy world. … It grounds us as a family.
Talking about her character on CSI:NY.
Melina: Viewers are watching Stella hold... (more Melina Kanakaredes quotes)
Melina was the one to announce the arrival of the Olympic flame in N.Y. for the Athens Olympics 2004. She didn't manage to visit Greece though, as she was stuck in N.Y shooting CSI.
Melina has two daughters, she is the youngest of three girls and all her cousins are girls too.
Melina was cast in Providence without an audition and all tho other cast members were chosen based on the chemistry with her.
When she was starting her career, Melina's agents had suggested she should change her helleni... (more Melina Kanakaredes trivia)
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Biography Magazine March 2002 - Denzel Washington, Onassis Family, Melina Kanakaredes, Mata Hari by Paulette McLeod |