| Lisa Trusel | |
| Birth Date: | 25 October 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Years Active: | 1981–present |
| Children: | 4 |
Lisa Trusel (born October 25, 1968) is an American actress. She is best known for her Emmy nominated role as Melissa Horton on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Trusel married her former Days co-star, David Wallace, on November 1, 1986.[1] They have four children: Ryan Elizabeth (born December 1989),[1] Benjamin (born c. 1991), Emma (born c. 1993), and Joseph (born c. 1997). As of 2015, they have three grandchildren.[2]
She was a young member of the cast of the hit television show Father Murphy during the early 1980s, playing the character Lizette Winkler. She later became a regular character on the daytime television soap opera, Days of Our Lives, playing the character Melissa Phillips Anderson Horton for which she was Emmy nominated Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 1985.