Melissa Barrera

Known for ActingBorn 1990-07-04 (age 35)Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Shut Up Evan

Shake Off Your Sorrows

Club de Cuervos

MTV Movie & TV Awards

A Love To Remember

In the Heights

Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano

Scream VI

Scream

Abigail

Your Monster

The Copenhagen Test

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Vida

Bed Rest

Carmen

Acting for a Cause

Keep Breathing

L for Leisure

Land of Gold

Late Night with Seth Meyers

All the World Is Sleeping

Tamron Hall

A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency

Two Times You

The Hotel

La Mujer de Judas

Tanto Amor

Siempre tuya Acapulco

Black Tides

Life Support

Traces of Home

The Collaboration

In the Cradle of Granite

Inhabit