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Today’s Melanie Lynskey’s 31st birthday, and she appears to be quite busy professionally. She’d made appearances on the last two episodes of this season’s The L Word and also had recent return cameos in Two and a Half Men after having previously left the show to do the short-lived TV show Drive.

Now, apparently, she has two movies in the works, a comedy (with no title yet) by Sam Mendes based on a script by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, and a low-budget Steven Soderbergh movie called The Informant. I’m excited. Dave Eggers is a funny dude, and I’m hoping that Soderbergh will some time return to the original greatness of Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Most of his later films (though blockbusters in the box office) have kind of sucked, in my opinion.

Well, go, Melanie; and happy birthday.

Years ago, when the show first started, we watched it for the first two seasons, but then we stopped our Showtime subscription. Well, we recently started up that subscription again, so we’re watching The L Word again. It’s been pretty good… or at least absorbing. But I just got a pleasant surprise—one of my favorite actors appears to be a new series guest-regular: Melanie Lynskey.

Yeah, you’ve probably never heard of her, but you’ve probably seen her. She made her debut in Heavenly Creatures, played the supporting “best friend” type on Ever After, But I’m Not A Cheerleader, and Coyote Ugly; and eventually winded up a guest-regular on the hit TV show Two and a Half Men.

The best part is that she appears to be using her native Kiwi accent instead of the fake American one she’s had to use in her last few roles (sans Snakeskin)… even though I think in the season finale she might be skankily stealing away someone from her girlfriend…

By the way, I used to have an entire website devoted to her, but I got a bit lazy about updating it, so now she’s just a category on my blog.