Melissa Fahn

Melissa Fahn is an American actress and voice performer born in Long Island, New York, to Michael and Millie Fahn. The youngest of four siblings, she began dancing at age three. Her family later relocated to Huntington Beach, California, where her father, a jazz drummer, encouraged her to expand her training into singing and acting alongside dance. Fahn participated in community theater productions and toured with Young Americans. She enrolled as a dance major at California State University, Long Beach, but left after one year to pursue professional work and theater full time.

Fahn's entry into voice acting came while she was employed as a receptionist, when a casting director noticed her voice and cast her in The Betty Boop Movie Mystery. She went on to voice a wide range of animated characters, including Gaz Membrane in the Nickelodeon series Invader Zim, Radical Edward in Cowboy Bebop, Haruka in Noein, Rika Nonaka, Kristy Damon, and Nene Amano in Digimon, and Neptune in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. Additional voice credits include Dendy in the Cartoon Network series OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Hello Kitty in Hello Kitty's Paradise, Himawari Uzumaki in Boruto, Silver Wolf in Honkai: Star Rail, and Rider and related incarnations in the Fate stay/night franchise.

Her stage career extended beyond Broadway to productions performed worldwide, including Hal Prince's 3hree, Gilligan's Island the Musical, Singin' in the Rain, No, No, Nanette, and the rock-operas of Vox Lumiere, as well as various theater projects in Los Angeles.

Fahn appeared on Broadway between 2003 and 2007, with her primary credit being Stephen Schwartz's musical Wicked. She was a member of the ensemble in the original Broadway cast. In March 2004, she took on the role of understudy for Glinda, stepping into that position after Melissa Bell Chait suffered a minor stroke. Fahn departed the Broadway production on October 31, 2004. She subsequently joined the Los Angeles sit-down production of Wicked as an original cast member, performing in the ensemble and again understudying the role of Glinda until her departure on December 30, 2007.

In 2007, Fahn released a music album titled Avignon, produced by her husband, Joel Alpers, who also played drums and percussion on the recording. Her brother Tom contributed trombone, and her sister-in-law Mary Ann McSweeney played bass. Fahn has three older brothers: Mike Fahn, a musician; and Tom Fahn and Jonathan Fahn, both voice and stage actors. She met Joel Alpers in Los Angeles in 2000, and the two married in Kauai, Hawaii, in 2002. In 2025, Fahn's home was destroyed by the Palisades Fire.