Melissa Barrera
Melissa Barrera Martínez (born 4 July 1990) is a Mexican actress, stage actress, singer-songwriter, producer, and activist. She is a three time Imagen Award, 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. She began her career as the lead characters of Azteca's Mexican telenovelas as Olvido Pérez in Siempre tuya Acapulco (2014) and as Mia 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 which she received the 2019 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, and another two GLAAD Media Awards nominations in 2020 and 2021, marking her as a two time GLAAD Media Award nominee and winner. For leading the slasher films Scream (2022) and Scream VI (2023) as Sam Carpenter, 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.
Adelante
- 2015-06-23T00:00:00.000000Z
Quiero Decirte
- 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z
Una y Otra Vez
- 2021-05-07T00:00:00.000000Z
In The Heights
- 2021-04-23T00:00:00.000000Z
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