Fred Melamed

Fred Melamed is my favorite kind of performer: the voice you've heard a thousand times before you ever learn the face. Decades of voiceover work and seven Woody Allen films built a quiet foundation, and then Sy Ableman in A Serious Man let that velvety, faintly menacing calm finally take center stage. I love that the breakthrough came in his fifties. There's something deeply satisfying about a craftsman who pays his dues for years and then arrives fully formed. He's a character actor's character actor, and I think he deserves a lot more credit than he gets.

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Name (English)

Fred Melamed

Name (Japanese)

フレッド・メラメッド

Reading

ふれっど・めらめっど

Born

May 13, 1956 (age 70)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / voice actor / stage actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Monkey

High school

Hollywood Hills High School

University

Hampshire College

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Melamed
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555227

Tags

• New York
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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