Melissa Crystal O'Neil (born July 12, 1988[1]) is a Canadian actor and singer. In 2005, O'Neil won the third season of Canadian Idol, the first Canadian female to be a winner of. O'Neil is best known as an actress because of her role in the series Syfy as Two and as Rebeccaand Portia Lin and on ABC as Officer Lucy Chen in the ABC procedural drama series The Rookie. She was voted as a bottom three contestant and two of the finals. Shocked by this, the judges urged viewers to vote for contestants such as Melissa who had the highest vocal ability. In the following weeks, O'Neil never fell back to the bottom of the list after her consistently high-rated performances, and judge Zack Werner declaring that she was "a chance to win the whole competition". The 7th of September, 2005, O'Neil got into the final two spots of the show, competing alongside Rex Goudie. After many more spectacular performances, judge Werner famously declared that the headlines of the next day's newspaper would read "The King, Kalan Porter has died, long live the Queen." During the grand finale results show on September 14 in 2005, O'Neil defeated Goudie to become the third Canadian Idol, as well as being the first female winner, and (at 17) the youngest contestant in the show's history.
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