Acting credits
26
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Melissa Barrera
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.3
Moderate attention
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Movies: 16Series: 11Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 1373659
IMDb ID: nm4574440
Known for: Acting
Born: July 4, 1990
Age: 35
Place of birth: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1992 - 2025
Years active: 34
Average TMDB rating: 6.72
Wikidata: Q20810462
Also known as
Melissa Barrera Martínez
Other jobs
Executive Producer (1)Producer (1)
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Melissa Barrera.
Traces of Home
Executive Producer
2025 Movie
6.5
Your Monster
as Laura Franco
2024 Movie
6.7
Abigail
as Joey
2024 Movie
6.1
Carmen
as Carmen
2023 Movie
5.2
All the World Is Sleeping
as Chama
2023 Movie
7.0
Scream VI
as Sam Carpenter
2023 Movie
6.2
Bed Rest
as Julie Rivers
2023 Movie
6.7
Scream
as Sam Carpenter
2022 Movie
7.0
Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
as Self
2021 Movie
7.1
In the Heights
as Vanessa
2021 Movie
4.0
Two Times You
as Daniela
2018 Movie
8.4
Shake Off Your Sorrows
as Luisa
2018 Movie
4.0
The Hotel
as Karina
2016 Movie
4.3
A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency
as Brisa Carreiro
2016 Movie
5.7
L for Leisure
as Kennedy
2015 Movie
The Collaboration
as Maya
Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Melissa Barrera.
6.4
The Copenhagen Test
as Michelle • 8 eps
2025 Series
6.1
Keep Breathing
as Liv Rivera • 6 eps
2022 Series
6.2
Acting for a Cause
as Elizabeth Bennett • 1 eps
2020 Series
6.4
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self • 2 eps
2019 Series
4.9
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2019 Series
6.4
Vida
as Lyn • 22 eps
2018 Series
8.4
Club de Cuervos
as Isabel Cantú • 10 eps
2015 Series
2.0
Tanto Amor
as Mía. González • 120 eps
2015 Series
7.4
A Love To Remember
as Olvido Pérezová • 136 eps
2014 Series
4.0
La Mujer de Judas
as Zulema Sánchez • 6 eps
2012 Series
8.1
MTV Movie & TV Awards
as Self - Presenter • 1 eps
1992 Series