Melissa Fitzgerald is an American actress, best known as Carol Fitzpatrick, assistant to C. J. Cregg, on NBC's The West Wing.

Film credits include Courting Des Moines, After Kony: Staging Hope, Simple Things, It Is What It Is, Listen, Frequency, Love & Sex, The Truman Show, Monument Ave., The Last Supper, and Bob, Verushka & the Pursuit of Happiness.