By Peter Hummers Melissa Reed is the daughter of incarcerated serial killer Keith Jesperson, the “Happy Face killer,” a connection she hides from her children and coworkers.

I was really astonished at that. That was surreal.” L-R David Harewood as Dr Greg and Annaleigh Ashford as Melissa Reed in Happy Face (CREDIT: Ed Araquel/Paramount+) Dr. Greg stands in for Dr ...

Instead of directly focusing on Jesperson’s heinous crimes, the series will play out from the point of view of his daughter, Melissa Reed. Annaleigh Ashford plays Melissa, who must find out if ...

For one thing, her character’s name is Melissa Reed, not Melissa Moore like in real life. The show also presents her as 15 years old when her dad was apprehended, but she was actually 16 at the ...

The Paramount+ limited series debuted March 20 and concludes May 1. Ashford plays Melissa Reed, the daughter of Dennis Quaid's Keith Hunter Jesperson, aka the Happy Face killer who's in prison for ...

Jesperson is at the center of the Paramount+ show Happy Face, starring Dennis Quaid as the serial killer and Annaleigh Ashford as his daughter Melissa Reed (who goes by Melissa Moore in real life).

The show stars Dennis Quaid as Keith Hunter Jesperson, Annaleigh Ashford as Melissa Reed, David Harewood as Dr. Greg, Tamera Tomakili as Ivy Campbell, James Wolk as Ben Reed, Khiyla Aynne as Hazel ...

who is an executive producer on the show is now Melissa Reed -- but the story is essentially the same. Here is who plays who in the cast and where you might have seen them before. The actress ...

Melissa has a different last name on the series In the series, the character's last name is Reed and not Moore. The first names of her children and husband are also different. Showrunner Jennifer ...