However, Lisa Trusel is best known for portraying the role.
Melissa was born in 1971 to her birth parents Jim Philips and Linda Patterson.
During this time, she learned that she was left half of Mary Anderson’s manufacturing company.
She was also taken in by beloved Salem couple Mickey and Maggie Horton.
Melissa wanted to pull her weight, so she began working at a local establishment called Shenanigans.
However, the police quickly showed up and Pete was arrested.
However, the drama didn’t stop there.
“Days of Our Lives” viewers watched Melissa and Pete secretly date and fall in love.
Sadly, tragedy struck when a rival gang called The Warriors came to Salem.
The Warriors and the Vipers got into a dangerous and deadly rumble, which included gunfire.
However, he accidentally shot Melissa’s adoptive father, Mickey, perBella Online.
Maggie and Mickey ended up sending Melissa away for the summer to separate her from Pete.
He worked at the establishment to get to earn money to start his life with Melissa.
Sadly, Pete and Melissa’s relationship was far from easy following the gang activity.
Melissa encouraged Pete to marry Ivy.
Eventually, the two did find their way back to each other.
They got married in 1986.
However, Pete’s involvement with mobster Victor Kiriakis ultimately tore them apart.
That’s when she started an affair with her dance partner, Lars Englund.
During her dancing career, Melissa suffered injuries to her leg.
Eventually, she was forced to give up dancing, and she and Pete split.
Lars left town and Melissa turned her romantic interests towardsJack Deveraux(Matthew Ashford).
After her name was cleared, she and Jack called it quits.
She eventually moved to Nashville, where she pursued work as a singer.
She also gave birth to a son off-screen named Nathan Horton, who later became a doctor.
However, Nathan’s father has never been revealed.
However, she has spent much of her time in Nashville.
