{"id":127581,"date":"2015-08-26T22:29:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/08\/26\/happy-45th-birthday-melissa-mccarthy-celebrate-by-revisiting-her-10-best-movie-roles\/"},"modified":"2015-08-26T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T22:29:12","slug":"happy-45th-birthday-melissa-mccarthy-celebrate-by-revisiting-her-10-best-movie-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/26\/happy-45th-birthday-melissa-mccarthy-celebrate-by-revisiting-her-10-best-movie-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 45th Birthday, Melissa McCarthy! Celebrate by revisiting her 10 best movie roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s no secret that Melissa McCarthy is one of the most beloved stars in Hollywood.<\/div>\n
Today marks the actress\u2019 45th birthday, and to celebrate, E! News is revisiting some of her most iconic roles on the big screen. According to a recent report from Forbes, McCarthy is the third highest-paid actress in Hollywood, earning $23 million from June 2014 to June 2015, coming in behind Jennifer Lawrence (No. 1, $52 million) and Scarlett Johansson (No. 2, $35.5 million). Since her Oscar-nominated role in 2011\u2019s Bridesmaids, McCarthy has easily proven she can open a movie on her own.<\/div>\n
In fact, Tammy (2014) and Spy (2015) grossed a combined $335 million worldwide.<\/div>\n
Not too shabby!<\/div>\n
McCarthy is best known for showcasing her comedic chops, as she did in 2013\u2019s Identity Thief (opposite Jason Bateman) and 2013\u2019s The Heat (opposite Sandra Bullock). Last year, however, the movie star impressed critics with a dramatic (yet still humorous) turn in St. Vincent, co-starring Bill Murray and Naomi Watts.<\/div>\n
Best of all, the actress is once again teaming up with director Paul Feig for his all-female Ghostbusters reboot, hitting theaters in the summer of 2016. The film also stars Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig.<\/div>\n
McCarthy also plays the titular character in Michelle Darnell, which she co-wrote and produced with her husband, Ben Falcone. The Universal Pictures comedy\u2014which also stars Kathy Bates, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage, Tyler Labine, Margo Martindale and Kristen Schaal\u2014is scheduled for release on Apr. 8, 2016.<\/div>\n
Regarding her big screen ambitions, McCarthy told More magazine in 2013, \u201cI just want to do\u2014it\u2019s not the most interesting answer, but I just want to do good stuff. The goal is always that the characters are grounded. I like to play an eccentric version of people, but I never like to be wacky, wacky, look how crazy I am.\u201d<\/div>\n
To celebrate McCarthy\u2019s birthday, revisit her 10 most iconic movie roles now.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that Melissa McCarthy is one of the most beloved stars in Hollywood. Today marks the actress\u2019 45th birthday, and to celebrate, E! News is revisiting some of her most iconic roles on the big screen. According to a recent report from Forbes, McCarthy is the third highest-paid actress in Hollywood, earning $23 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}