
Melissa Barrera
Born: 1990-07-04
Place of birth: 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.
Filmography

Club de Cuervos
2015

Shake Off Your Sorrows
2018

MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992

A Love To Remember
2014

In the Heights
2021

Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
2021

Scream VI
2023

Scream
2022

Abigail
2024

Your Monster
2024

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

Vida
2018

The Copenhagen Test
2025

Bed Rest
2023

Carmen
2023

Acting for a Cause
2020

Keep Breathing
2022

L for Leisure
2015