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Melissa Barrera
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Melissa Barrera MartĂnez (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 PĂ©rez in Siempre tuya Acapulco (2014) and as struggling hard working woman MĂa GonzĂĄlez in Tanto amor (2015), then joining in as socialite Isabel CantĂș 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 (2018â2020). For playing Sam CarpenâŠ
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Melissa Barrera MartĂnez (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 PĂ©rez in Siempre tuya Acapulco (2014) and as struggling hard working woman MĂa GonzĂĄlez in Tanto amor (2015), then joining in as socialite Isabel CantĂș 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 (2018â2020). 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 Mirandaâs 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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Melissa Barrera's Filmography
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Your Monster
as Laura Franco
Abigail
as Joey
Carmen
as Carmen
All the World Is Sleeping
as Chama
Scream VI
as Sam Carpenter
Bed Rest
as Julie Rivers
Scream
as Sam Carpenter
Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
as Self
In the Heights
as Vanessa
Two Times You
as Daniela
Shake Off Your Sorrows
as Luisa
The Hotel
as Karina
A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency
as Brisa Carreiro
L for Leisure
as Kennedy
No Poster
In the Cradle of Granite
The Collaboration
as Maya
Black Tides
as Rebecca Pierce
No Poster