 Trusel's run as Melissa earned her various nominations and a Daytime Emmy award nomination.Born to Jim and Linda Phillips, Linda claimed that Mickey Horton was Melissa's father, but when Mickey's wife Laura revealed to her in private that Mickey was sterile (a fact that Mickey did not even know about as Laura had been keeping it from him so that he wouldn't discover that he was not the father of Laura's son Mike), Linda reluctantly admitted that Jim was Melissa's father.Melissa later took the name Anderson following Linda's marriage to Bob Anderson.