Melissa Warburg Rosenberg (born January 20, 1968), better known as Melissa Rivers, is an American actress, television host and producer. She is the daughter of the late Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg. As an actress, she has had roles in television shows including Beverly Hills, 90210, Silk Stalkings, The Comeback. In 1998, she also appeared in the sci-fi/comedy made-for-television movie Men in White and in the 1999 film The Big Tease, a comedy directed by Kevin Allen starring Craig Ferguson. Additionally, she teamed up with her mother Joan Rivers, portraying themselves in the 1994 celebrity docudrama Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story. In the early 1990s, she branched out on the pre-show red carpet, interviewing celebrities on nationally televised awards shows. Rivers, who has hosted various events and served as a producer for the E! Network, has hosted two of the channel’s highest-rated specials: Oh Baby! Melissa’s Guide to Pregnancy and Oh Toddler! Surviving the Early Years (aired in January 2002). With her mother, she hosted fashion on the red carpet interviews for the E! cable network. In 2003, they left her red carpet pre-show on E! to accept a more lucrative deal with the TV Guide Channel valued at between $6 and 8 million. Also in 2002, she appeared on the ABC Network competitive reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. She has been a regular guest on the webcast show Tom Green's House Tonight. In 2013, she was a co-creator and co-producer of Joan's YouTube web series In Bed With Joan, a fifteen to thirty minute show with a new video uploaded weekly in which Joan interviews a celebrity about a wide variety of personal topics in Joan's bed, with Melissa conducting interview questions for the last several minutes.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 20, 1968 (58)
- New York City, New York, USA
- Actor, also producer
- 9 on MovieCove · 15 credits in all
Known for
What are Melissa Rivers' films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 3
Light 2 · Serious 2 · Dark 0
Grounded 2 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 4 · Intense 0
Steady 1 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 1
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 1
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 1
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
- Allyas Melissa Rivers in Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story (1994)
- Shapeshifteras Melissa Rivers in Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story (1994)
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous1
- Other1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Melissa Rivers' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 5 of their 9 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on The Roku Channel (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Melissa Rivers' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
15 credits, 9 with a MovieCove page; 35 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Joy(2015)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows
First Daughter(2004)
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films
Out for Blood(2004)
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films
Dave the Barbarian (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
I'm with Her (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
The Big Tease(1999)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
Men in White(1998)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films
E! True Hollywood Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films
Beverly Hills, 90210(1990)
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all shows
Live with Kelly and Mark(1988)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all shows
Rabbit Test (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Can We Talk? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 63rd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 15 titles, 14 of them dated from 1978 to 2015; peak year 2015.
Biggest box office
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010)
Highest rated
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010)
Most popular right now
Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? (2011)
Film career
Peak 2015 · steadily prominent in film for years. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1999Screen debut· The Big Tease
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Melissa Rivers' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 22nd percentile, the median of all 6; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 47th percentile for acclaim.
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th5
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 9 titles are Mixed.
- Divisive2
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed5
Reviewers score the acting 45/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 70, detractors 23. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Melissa Rivers work with?
People who share at least 2 of Melissa Rivers' MovieCove titles; Joan Rivers shares the most, 3.
- Joan RiversShared titles: Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? (2011), Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010), Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story (1994)See all 3 shared titles with Joan Rivers
