Melissa Barrera

Melissa Barrera

Birth : 1990-07-04, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

History

Melissa Barrera Martínez (born 4 July 1990) is a Mexican actress and singer. In Mexico, she is known for roles in the telenovelas Siempre tuya Acapulco (2013), Tanto amor (2015), and the Netflix series Club de Cuervos (2017). Outside of Mexico, she is known for her lead roles in the Starz drama series Vida (2018–2020), the musical film In the Heights (2021), and the horror films Scream (2022), Scream VI (2023), Bed Rest (2022), and Abigail (2024).

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Melissa Barrera
Melissa Barrera
Melissa Barrera
Melissa Barrera
Melissa Barrera

Movies

Abigail
Joey
After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.
Carmen
Carmen
A young and fiercely independent woman, Carmen, is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother. She survives an illegal border crossing into the US, only to be confronted by a lawless volunteer border guard. When the border guard and his patrol partner, Aidan—a Marine with PTSD—become embroiled in a deadly standoff, Carmen and Aidan are forced to escape together. They make their way north toward Los Angeles in search of Carmen’s mother’s best friend, the mercurial Masilda and owner of La Sombra nightclub - a sanctuary of music and dance. Carmen and Aidan find both solace and their unwavering love for each other in the safety of Masilda’s magical refuge, but time is running out as the police hunt closes in.
Scream: The Sequel
Sam Carpenter
Horror/Mystery - Plot is currently under wraps
All the World Is Sleeping
Chama
Fighting for her own life and the ones she loves, a Chicana in New Mexico sinks deeper into her addiction while struggling to surface for her daughter.
Scream VI
Sam Carpenter
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
Bed Rest
Producer
After struggling to start a family, Julie Rivers becomes pregnant and moves into a new home with her husband. She's ordered to mandatory bed rest, and begins seeing ghostly happenings throughout the house.
Bed Rest
Julie Rivers
After struggling to start a family, Julie Rivers becomes pregnant and moves into a new home with her husband. She's ordered to mandatory bed rest, and begins seeing ghostly happenings throughout the house.
Scream
Sam Carpenter
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
Self
Join the creative process behind Nacho Cano’s new musical based on the love story of Malinche and Hernán Cortés and the merging of their two worlds.
In the Heights
Vanessa
The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.
Two Times You
Daniela
A unique relationship between two women that transcends time and space.
Shake Off Your Sorrows
Prisoner González dedicates his life-in-jail to narrate the adventures of Pepe Frituras, one of the most renowned Mexican dancers who lost his freedom due to a night of partying. Through stories that integrate music and dance, he will tell the exploits of a prisoner who achieved freedom through his imagination.
The Hotel
Karina
A single mother named Maria unespectedly inherits an hotel from her deceased father, where she will find the truth about her past while she tries get the business going.
L for Leisure
Kennedy
A dreamy, ironic comedy about a generation of hedonistic students in the 1990s. Their favourite activity: talking endlessly. During a series of vacation days filled with sun-drenched naps, squabbling, waterskiing competitions and love-making, the amateur actors discuss their concerns in dry dialogues. For instance, semi-intellectual reflections on the end of time and how Michael Jordan plays basketball.
The One
Taylor
Taylor makes a last-ditch effort to find love by becoming a contestant on a reality dating show. Now down to just herself and two other women competing to win the heart of Mason, she begins to feel the artifice of the show fade, and the game becomes terrifyingly real. Amidst the opulent beachfront setting, fairy-tale dates, and ever-flowing champagne, pursuit turns into obsession and rivalry turns into treachery as reality itself blurs.
Scream VII
Sam Carpenter
The seventh film in the Scream franchise. Plot TBA.
God's Country
A young Salvadoran woman travels to Kentucky to meet her fiancé. What she uncovers is something sinister beyond comprehension, as her American dream curdles into a nightmare of biblical proportions.