Melinda tells him that she isn't fake, and Andrea backs her up. Later in the episode, Hank accuses Melinda of being fake and shouts at her because she told them of her gift and he was a skeptic. Melinda tells Kenny the reason she isn't looking right at him is because she is blind. Andrea tries her best but doesn't do it right. Melinda tells her that a ghost named Kenny is in the store and she must ghost-sit him. Melinda asks a favor from Andrea, and Andrea does what she can to help Melinda. A young boy named Dylan takes a liking to Andrea, perhaps a crush, and gives her a rock, which she accepts from him. In ' The Crossing', Andrea is only ever seen in the store. Andrea often helps Melinda to collect antiques from various locations to bring them to the store. When Melinda is late for work, laid-back Andrea tells her not to worry about it. Her and Melinda occasionally go to Village Java and get coffee together, chatting about daily life and ghosts, and Melinda is very confident around Andrea and trusts her with her secrets.

Melinda confides in Andrea with her ghost problems, that Andrea must have known about Melinda's gift pre-series, and is fascinated by it, showing a keen interest and a will to help Melinda with her spirits. It's soon revealed that Andrea works for Melinda at their newly opened antique store, Same As It Never Was Antiques, where Andrea is learning Latin, an ambitious woman who tries different hobbies. Andrea appears to be a fun and lively woman, and getting Melinda to dance with her on the dancefloor. In ' Pilot', Andrea is first introduced during Melinda's wedding party, being the second main character introduced as Melinda throws some flowers behind her in which Andrea catches. While Andrea was not on the plane, she died because her car had been in the path that the plane had crashed on. At the end of season one, it was revealed that it was Andrea who had died during the crash and not Mitch.

Andrea also helps Melinda with difficult crossovers removing some of the stress from Melinda's husband, Jim Clancy. Andrea, at first, seemed ambitious and adventurous, wanting to try new and different things, such as learning Latin. Such as, whenever Melinda has to run off and help a ghost, Andrea is left to keep the store. Melinda is, at first, afraid that Andrea will reject her, but Andrea finds her gift pretty cool.Īndrea becomes essential to the store and Melinda, because of the very fact that she knows about Melinda's gift. Before the show started, Melinda had to tell Andrea that the spirit who use to live in her apartment is following her, since pictures of his grandson are behind her stove, and he wants his daughter to have them. She works in Melinda's antique shop where she begins to become fond of Melinda. Before living in Grandview, she traveled a lot but then decided to settle down in the small town. What is known is that Andrea has a brother named Mitch, and her father is deceased. Andrea sometimes helped Melinda with her ghost problems whenever possible, and came to a shock to herself when she discovered that she was crushed by a plane and hadn't realized it. Andrea maintained best friend status to Melinda Gordon, who often confided in Andrea with her innermost secrets, and even trusting her enough to tell her of her gift to talk to the dead, to which Andrea appeared unusually pleased about. However, her brother Mitch Marino regularly visited Andrea at Grandview, and was revealed when Andrea was to be crossed over that her father was also deceased. She was played by Aisha Tyler and was part of the main cast during season one. She was single up until right before her death when she was dating and falling in love with a sensitive poet named Ashton Belluso.

She moved to Grandview and obtained a job working at ' Same As It Never Was', an antique store that is owned by Melinda. Mitch Marino - Brother Unnamed Father - Father Unnamed Mother - MotherĪndrea Joyce Marino (sometimes spelled as Moreno), was one of the main characters in the television series, Ghost Whisperer, and had once worked in New York, as assistant district attorney, until her job changed.

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