Melissa Reeves

About

Melissa Reeves (née Brennan; born March 14, 1967) is an American actress. She is known for playing Jennifer Horton on the NBC Daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives (1985–1995, 2000–2006, 2010–2022, 2024-present). She has been nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on Days of Our Lives. She has also won four Soap Opera Digest Awards.

Reeves was born in Eatontown, New Jersey and raised in Red Bank. Her maiden name is Melissa Brennan. Her father was a Disc jockey for a radio station in Asbury Park, where he met musicians like Bruce Springsteen. She has one sibling, a brother.
At the age of thirteen, she started taking the bus and train to New York to attend dance classes, studying with Phil Black. Reeves wanted to become a dancer on Broadway. She also studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Manhattan.

In the early 1980s, Reeves (then known as Melissa Brennan) began acting in television commercials to help pay for her dance classes. She worked as an extra on the NBC soap opera Another World. She appeared in the afterschool special The Lakeside High Experiment. She also appeared in the film Somewhere…