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Melissa Barrera
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 cha…
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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.
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2026
Traces of Home
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
Life Support
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
Shut Up Evan
TV show Self - Guest
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2025
The Copenhagen Test
TV show Michelle
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2024
Your Monster
Movie Laura Franco
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2024
Abigail
Movie Joey
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2023
Land of Gold
Movie Thanks
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2023
Carmen
Movie Carmen
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2023
All the World Is Sleeping
Movie Chama
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2023
Scream VI
Movie Sam Carpenter
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2023
Bed Rest
Movie Julie Rivers
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2022
Keep Breathing
TV show Liv Rivera
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2022
Scream
Movie Sam Carpenter
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2021
Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
Movie Self
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2021
In the Heights
Movie Vanessa
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2018
Two Times You
Movie Daniela
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2018
Vida
TV show Lyn
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2018
Shake Off Your Sorrows
Movie Luisa
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2016
The Hotel
Movie Karina
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2016
A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency
Movie Brisa Carreiro
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2015
Club de Cuervos
TV show Isabel Cantú
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2015
Tanto Amor
TV show Mía. González
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2015
L for Leisure
Movie Kennedy
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2014
Siempre tuya Acapulco
TV show Olvido Pérez / Olvido Balmaceda Pérez
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self
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2014
A Love To Remember
TV show Olvido Pérezová
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2012
La Mujer de Judas
TV show Zulema Sánchez
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1992
MTV Movie & TV Awards
TV show Self - Presenter
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Inhabit
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The Collaboration
Movie Maya
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In the Cradle of Granite
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Black Tides
Movie Rebecca Pierce
