Melissa Barrera
Birthday: Born in 1990-07-04 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Deathday: Alive
Melissa Barrera Martínez (born 4 July 1990) is a Mexican actress, stage actress, singer-songwriter, producer, executive producer and activist. She began her career as the lead characters of Azteca's Mexican telenovelas as the humble and kind village girl Olvido Pérez in Siempre tuya Acapulco (2014) and as struggling hard working woman Mía González in Tanto amor (2015), then joining in as socialite Isabel Cantú in the third season of the Netflix original series Club de Cuervos (2017). Barrera transitioned to Hollywood in 2018, earning recognition playing the sexually liberated and free spirited vegan woman Lyn Hernandez in the Starz comedy-drama series Vida (2018–2020). For playing Sam Carpenter in the slasher films Scream (2022) and Scream VI (2023), as well as leading the horror-comedies as the former millitary nurse and drug addict Joey in Abigail and aspiring breast cancer survivor stage actress Laura Franco in Your Monster (both 2024), she established herself as a scream queen. She is a 3-time Imagen Award nominee, and her accolades include a Satellite Award nomination for playing hairstylist Vanessa Morales in the 2021 movie adaption of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical In the Heights. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melissa Barrera, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Club de Cuervos
Character: Isabel Cantú
When the patriarch of a prominent family dies, his heirs battle to determine who will gain control of his beloved soccer team: The Cuervos of Nuevo Toledo....
Tamron Hall
Character: Self - Guest
Former news host and journalist Tamron Hall discusses all things topical and engages those she interviews in thorough meaningful and entertaining conversations....
Keep Breathing
Character: Liv Rivera
When a small plane crashes in the middle of the Canadian wilderness, a lone survivor must battle the elements — and her personal demons — to stay alive....
Tanto Amor
Character: Mía. González
In this novel we will see how love struggles to survive and overcome all obstacles. The Lombardo family is very wealthy and is one of the most recognized, everything in it is perfection, they maintain a quiet life. But from one moment to another everything starts to be chaos. The Lombard brothers will face each other, Alberto is the good brother, a man of honor, but his brother Bruno is full of envy and ambition. The trigger for everything is the love that Alberto and Mia have for each other, ...
Vida
Character: Lyn
Two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles who couldn't be more different or distanced from each other are forced to return to their old neighborhood, where they are confronted by the past and surprising truth about their mother’s identity....
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Character: Self
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities....
La Mujer de Judas
Character: Zulema Sánchez
La mujer de Judas is a Mexican telenovela produced by Maricarmen Marcos for Azteca. It is based on Venezuelan novela of the same name. It stars Anette Michel, Victor Gonzalez, and Andrea Marti. It replaced Cielo Rojo on January 13, 2012. Adapted by Paz Aguirre and Gabriel Santos, this adaptation is supervised by the original writer, Martin Hahn....
Acting for a Cause
Character: Elizabeth Bennett
Acting for a Cause is a live read series of classic plays and screenplays created, produced, directed and hosted by Brando Crawford featuring young Hollywood actors such as Academy Award Nominee Florence Pugh, Emmy Nominee Margaret Qualley, and 80 other young Hollywood stars. Each reading is organized to raise money for a specific charity. The readings garnered over 500,000 viewers between the first play read on March 27, 2020 and the last announced read on July 31, 2020. The reading series was...
Siempre Tuya Acapulco
Character: Olvido Pérezová
A rich and handsome architect is flying from Acapulco to Mexico City when his plane crashes. A beautiful, young girl finds him in the forest and decides to bring him home to look after him....
The Copenhagen Test
Character: Michelle
When an analyst discovers his eyes and ears have been hacked, he's drawn into a controlled world designed by his agency to draw out their enemies....
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Character: Self - Presenter
The annual film & TV awards show presented by MTV. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV with winners decided online by the general public....
Movie Credits
All the World Is Sleeping
Character: Chama
Fighting for her own life and the ones she loves, a Chicana in New Mexico sinks deeper into her addiction while struggling to surface for her daughter....
Scream VI
Character: Sam Carpenter
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter....
Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
Character: Self
Join the creative process behind Nacho Cano’s new musical based on the love story of Malinche and Hernán Cortés and the merging of their two worlds....
Your Monster
Character: Laura Franco
After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming, monster living in her closet....
Bed Rest
Character: Julie Rivers
After struggling to start a family, Julie Rivers becomes pregnant and moves into a new home with her husband. She's ordered to mandatory bed rest, and begins seeing ghostly happenings throughout the house....
Abigail
Character: Joey
A group of criminals kidnap a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, one by one, they discover, to their increasing horror, that they are locked inside with no normal little girl....
The Collaboration
Character: Maya
A look into the unique and rich friendship between pop art legend Andy Warhol and neo-expressionist icon Jean-Michel Basquiat, exploring their extraordinary creative partnership during the 1980s, and how their work together was propelled by their contrasting beliefs....
L for Leisure
Character: Kennedy
A dreamy, ironic comedy about a generation of hedonistic students in the 1990s. Their favourite activity: talking endlessly. During a series of vacation days filled with sun-drenched naps, squabbling, waterskiing competitions and love-making, the amateur actors discuss their concerns in dry dialogues. For instance, semi-intellectual reflections on the end of time and how Michael Jordan plays basketball....
The Hotel
Character: Karina
A single mother named Maria unexpectedly inherits an hotel from her deceased father, where she will find the truth about her past while she tries get the business going....
A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency
Character: Brisa Carreiro
A governor wants to be president, but in order to reach his goal he needs to do what he hates most: being a politician....
Two Times You
Character: Daniela
A unique relationship between two women that transcends time and space....
In the Heights
Character: Vanessa
The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights....
Shake Off Your Sorrows
Character: Luisa
Prisoner González dedicates his life-in-jail to narrate the adventures of Pepe Frituras, one of the most renowned Mexican dancers who lost his freedom due to a night of partying. Through stories that integrate music and dance, he will tell the exploits of a prisoner who achieved freedom through his imagination....
Scream
Character: Sam Carpenter
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past....
Carmen
Character: Carmen
A young and fiercely independent woman, Carmen, is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother. She survives an illegal border crossing into the US, only to be confronted by a lawless volunteer border guard. When the border guard and his patrol partner Aidan become embroiled in a deadly standoff, the pair is forced to escape together....