Mekenna Melvin is an American actress best known for playing Alex McHugh in Chuck, Angela in Three Rivers and Stefanie Fife in Lie to Me.

[1] She became interested in acting at a young age through spending time at a local theater with her mother, a theater director,[2] and made her first acting appearance as Woodstock in a local performance of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the age of 5.

[citation needed] She is a graduate of Independence High School in San Jose, California.

[1] She trained at both the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, New York and the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England.

[2] Melvin is professionally trained as an actress, dancer, and singer, and also has martial arts training, at the level of a first degree blackbelt, in taekwondo.