Name
Melissa Barrera
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1990-07-04 (36 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
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- 2023 All the World Is Sleeping as Chama
- 2023 Scream VI as Sam Carpenter
- 2021 Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano as Self
- 2024 Your Monster as Laura Franco
- 2023 Bed Rest as Julie Rivers
- 2024 Abigail as Joey
- Soon The Collaboration as Maya
- 2015 L for Leisure as Kennedy
- 2016 The Hotel as Karina
- 2016 A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency as Brisa Carreiro
- 2018 Two Times You as Daniela
- 2021 In the Heights as Vanessa
- 2018 Shake Off Your Sorrows as Luisa
- 2022 Scream as Sam Carpenter
- 2023 Carmen as Carmen
- Soon In the Cradle of Granite
- Soon Black Tides as Rebecca Pierce
- Soon Inhabit
- 2015 Club de Cuervos ( 10 episodes ) as Isabel Cantú
- 2019 Tamron Hall ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2014 Siempre tuya Acapulco ( 136 episodes ) as Olvido Pérez / Olvido Balmaceda Pérez
- 2022 Keep Breathing ( 6 episodes ) as Liv Rivera
- 2015 Tanto Amor ( 120 episodes ) as Mía. González
- 2018 Vida ( 22 episodes ) as Lyn
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2012 La Mujer de Judas ( 6 episodes ) as Zulema Sánchez
- 2014 A Love To Remember ( 136 episodes ) as Olvido Pérezová
- 2025 The Copenhagen Test ( 8 episodes ) as Michelle
- 1992 MTV Movie & TV Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2026 Shut Up Evan ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
