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

• 2026Life Support — Executive Producer
• 2026Traces of Home — Executive Producer
• The Copenhagen Test — Michelle
• 2024Abigail — Joey
• 2024Your Monster — Laura Franco
• 2023All the World Is Sleeping — Chama
• 2023Bed Rest — Julie Rivers, Producer
• 2023Carmen — Carmen
• 2023Land of Gold — Thanks
• 2023Scream VI — Sam Carpenter
• Keep Breathing — Liv Rivera
• 2022Scream — Sam Carpenter
• 2021In the Heights — Vanessa
• 2018Shake Off Your Sorrows — Luisa
• 2018Two Times You — Daniela
• Vida — Lyn
• 2016A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency — Brisa Carreiro
• 2016The Hotel — Karina
• Club de Cuervos — Isabel Cantú
• 2015L for Leisure — Kennedy
• Tanto Amor — Mía. González
• A Love To Remember — Olvido Pérezová
• Siempre tuya Acapulco — Olvido Pérez / Olvido Balmaceda Pérez
• La Mujer de Judas — Zulema Sánchez
• Black Tides — Rebecca Pierce
• In the Cradle of Granite
• Inhabit
• The Collaboration — Maya

Appearances as themselves (6)

• Shut Up Evan — Self - Guest
• 2021Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• MTV Movie & TV Awards — Self - Presenter