Bellamy Young

About

Bellamy Young (born Amy Maria Young; February 19, 1970) is an American actress, producer and singer best known as Melody “Mellie” Grant on Scandal (2012–2018), for which she won the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2014. She also starred in Prodigal Son as Jessica Whitly (2019–2021) and as Hotch’s girlfriend Beth Clemmons on Criminal Minds.

Young was born as Amy Maria Young on February 19, 1970, in Asheville, North Carolina, and was adopted. She changed her name to join the Screen Actors Guild since there was another Amy Young registered, and chose the name Bellamy as a tribute to her late father’s best friend, Bill, who had helped to raise her after her father died.
Young graduated from Asheville High School in 1987. She attended Yale University, initially majoring in physics but studying English and theatre, and graduated in 1991. She spent a summer during college at the British American Drama Academy in England.

Young began her acting career in theatre. In 1997, she made her Broadway debut as Mary in the original cast of The Life. She has also appeared Off-Broadway…