Melanie Smooter — Sweet Home Alabama Character Profile

About Melanie Smooter

Protagonist. A successful New York fashion designer who hides her Alabama origins. She returns to her hometown to finalize a divorce from her teenage husband Jake and announce an engagement to Andrew Hennings, but ultimately realizes she still loves Jake and chooses him over her glamorous city life.

Melanie Smooter — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Reese Witherspoon

Appears in

Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (4)

• Melanie Smooter — Romantic Fiance — Andrew Hennings (Patrick Dempsey)

  Engaged to Andrew who proposes in New York

• Melanie Smooter — Romantic Ex-Spouses — Jake Perry (Josh Lucas)

  Married as teenagers, Melanie left Jake after miscarriage

• Melanie Smooter — Family Father — Earl Smooter (Fred Ward)

  Melanie's father who lives in Alabama

• Melanie Smooter — Family Mother — Pearl Smooter (Mary Kay Place)

  Melanie's mother who lives in Alabama

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More characters from Sweet Home Alabama

• Jake Perry (Josh Lucas)
• Andrew Hennings (Patrick Dempsey)
• Mayor Kate Hennings (Candice Bergen)
• Dorothea (Mary Lynn Rajskub)
• Pearl Smooter (Mary Kay Place)
• Young Melanie (Dakota Fanning)
• Stella Kay Perry (Jean Smart)
• Earl Smooter (Fred Ward)
• Young Jake (Thomas Curtis)
• Barry Lowenstein (Kevin Sussman)
• Pan (Michelle Krusiec)
• Tabatha Wadmore-Smith (Rhona Mitra)