See "Melrose Place" Star Daphne Zuniga now at 59

The soap actor during prime time is always close to many of his old co-stars.


WhenDarren star Launched theBeverly Hills, 90210 spin offMelrose Place In 1992, he based a main character on his former roommate,Daphne Zuniga. Zuniga would continue to play in the show - not as a waitress Alison Parker, who was based on her, but as a photographer Jo Reynolds, a role she would play for four seasons until leaving soap in 1996.

Zuniga has led an active life in the decades since she left the show, often crossing with her oldMelrose Place Co-stars. Read the rest to know where she is now at 59 years old.

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She has taken up residenceA tree hill.

Daphne Zuniga in 1989
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When she joinedMelrose Place, Zuniga was already known to have played in the films of the 1980sThe sure thing, oppositeJohn Cusack, andSpatial balls, play the Vespa princess, as well as make appearances onFamily ties. Her acting career continued over the decades to come with roles on television dramas, especiallyAmerican dreams andBeautiful people, independent films likeThose left behind, and a certain number of films for life and marker. Perhaps more memorable, she joined the seriesA tree hill In 2008 like Brooke (Sophia Bush) Mother Victoria Davis, a role she played until the end of the 2012 series.

She made her first feature film.

Daphne Zuniga in 1994
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Zuniga made his director debut withMortal assistant, a thriller for life about a woman disentanging the truth behind the death of her sister, who was broadcast on the network in 2019. The same year,She said in Hollywoodlife that she worked on a second film, an indie feature film entitledThe waiting room, although there have been no official news on this subject since then.

It is an environmental and equality activist.

Bethany Joy Lenz, Gloria Steinem, and Daphne Zuniga in 2016
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Inspired by childhood travel in national parks and experience of mercury poisoning after consuming fish, Zuniga has been active in environmental causes for decades. She was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Terre Communications Office (ECO), a non -profit organization devoted to exploiting the entertainment industry for environmental purposes and was also appointed to the board of directors ofThe Los Angeles River Revitalization Corp., a non -profit organization aimed at bringing the L.A. river in 2008, ithas spoken of environmental justice in a room for the HuffPost and in 2011 received theCLCV Environmental Leadership Award California environmental voters for its leadership.

In addition to his environmental work, Zuniga has also worked with the equality of the feminist organization now to promote women's rights and equality.

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It is inspired by meditation.

Daphne Zuniga in 2018
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Zuniga often talks about his meditation practice and has attended several meditation retreats of several days over the years. She describedExperience as a revealer, calling him in an interview of 2005, "the most powerful thing" that helped her to face and free himself from "fears of success, relationships and love".

She married for the first time at 56.

David Mleczko and Daphne Zuniga in 2019
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In 2019, Zuniga married his longtime beautifulDavid Mleczko, the co-founder of a public relations and marketing company for sustainable organizations, during a small ceremony officiated by mindfulnessSharon Salzberg. It was the first marriage for the actor, who had met her husband to a blind meeting more than a decade earlier, in 2006.

"I ... associated with marry someone with abandon who I was," she wrote forCharm Why sheMarried later in life. "And the last thing I wanted was feeling pressure to give up a career for which I worked so hard."

She found her co-stars on new shows.

Zuniga has resumed the role of Jo Reynolds for the CW seasonMelrose Place Restart in 2009 and told The Wrap in 2019 that it would be "completely open" to "Another renewal. Fans do not have to wait to see her find herself with many of her former co-stars, because she recently appeared with them on a few othersAaron spelling Restart. In 2021, she and the old co-starsJosie Bissett andLaura Leighton visitedFantastic island, playing three friends celebrating their 50th birthday. In 2022, she played in an episode of CWDynasty with herMelrose Place Interest in love,Grant exhibition. And she played in the film for life 2019Portes of Paradise As a nasty infirmer Broadbent alongside his colleague star / former student of the spelling Jason Priestley.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The actor also remains close to her Melrose Place Socially co-stars. Earlier this summer, she met Leighton and Courtney Thorne-Smith For lunch, share a photo of the meeting With its Instagram followers.


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