Melissa George

Are They ... Experienced? New York Celebrities Talk Politics

Are They ... Experienced? New York Celebrities Talk Politics

“I’m starting to get upset," said Melissa George, the pretty blonde with the pouty lips and cat-like eyes who plays Laura on the HBO series In Treatment. "I want Hillary to get it.”

Ms. George was standing around with her husband, Claudio Dabed, looking healthy and politically-minded in a floral minidress at a cocktail party at the Hermes store in the Financial district that was cross-marketing the new $2.3 million Bugatti Veyron automobile. (The vaunted leather-goods and fashion house did the interiors.)

Ms. George's Australian accent gives her origins away, but she feels strongly enough about American politics that she became a citizen last year, she said, so that she could vote in this presidential election.

(She's looking for a place right now incidentally—"downtown in Chelsea or Tribeca"—so, you know, if you hear of anything ...)  read more »