Melanie Sloan was born in 1951 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004), Manny & Lo (1996) and Napoleon and Betsy.
Her paternal grandparents, Sol Schlamberg and Mollie Sussman, were Russian Jewish immigrants. Her maternal grandparents, Isadore Chodosh and Anna Weinstein, were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, Belarus.