Melissa Barrera
Known For
Acting
Born
1990-07-04 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Biography
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.
Most Known For
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
MTV Movie & TV Awards
as Self - Presenter
The Copenhagen Test
as Michelle
Scream
as Sam Carpenter
Scream VI
as Sam Carpenter
Abigail
as Joey
Club de Cuervos
as Isabel Cantú
Keep Breathing
as Liv Rivera
Vida
as Lyn
Acting for a Cause
as Elizabeth Bennett
Bed Rest
as Julie Rivers
Your Monster
as Laura Franco
Carmen
as Carmen
A Love To Remember
as Olvido Pérezová
La Mujer de Judas
as Zulema Sánchez
In the Heights
as Vanessa
Tanto Amor
as Mía. González
Siempre tuya Acapulco
as Olvido Pérez / Olvido Balmaceda Pérez
Black Tides
as Rebecca Pierce