Melissa Barrera

Melissa Barrera

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.

  • Title: Melissa Barrera
  • Popularity: 3.8981
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1990-07-04
  • Place of Birth: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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  • Also Known As: Melissa Barrera Martínez
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Melissa Barrera Movies

  • 2023
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    All the World Is Sleeping

    All the World Is Sleeping

    5.2 2023 HD

    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.

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  • 2023
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    Scream VI

    Scream VI

    6.971 2023 HD

    Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

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  • 2021
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    Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano

    Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano

    7 2021 HD

    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.

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  • 2024
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    Your Monster

    Your Monster

    6.524 2024 HD

    After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming, monster living in her closet.

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  • 2023
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    Bed Rest

    Bed Rest

    6.22 2023 HD

    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.

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  • 2024
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    Abigail

    Abigail

    6.703 2024 HD

    A group of criminals kidnap a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, one by one, they discover, to their increasing horror, that they are locked inside with no normal little girl.

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  • 1970
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    The Collaboration

    The Collaboration

    1 1970 HD

    A look into the unique and rich friendship between pop art legend Andy Warhol and neo-expressionist icon Jean-Michel Basquiat, exploring their extraordinary creative partnership during the 1980s, and how their work together was propelled by their contrasting beliefs.

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  • 2015
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    L for Leisure

    L for Leisure

    5.7 2015 HD

    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.

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  • 2016
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    The Hotel

    The Hotel

    4 2016 HD

    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.

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  • 2016
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    A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency

    A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency

    4.3 2016 HD

    A governor wants to be president, but in order to reach his goal he needs to do what he hates most: being a politician.

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  • 2018
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    Two Times You

    Two Times You

    4.045 2018 HD

    A unique relationship between two women that transcends time and space.

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  • 2021
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    In the Heights

    In the Heights

    7.112 2021 HD

    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.

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  • 2018
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    Shake Off Your Sorrows

    Shake Off Your Sorrows

    8.4 2018 HD

    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.

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  • 2022
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    Scream

    Scream

    6.689 2022 HD

    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.

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  • 2023
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    Carmen

    Carmen

    6.1 2023 HD

    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 become embroiled in a deadly standoff, the pair is forced to escape together.

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  • 1970
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    In the Cradle of Granite

    In the Cradle of Granite

    1 1970 HD

    Set in the brutal American west of the late 1800s, a young mother struggles to provide for her family after her husband dies and the local town folk won’t do business with her. But when she finds the body of a notorious wanted outlaw on her homestead, she strikes a deal with the bounty hunter who killed him—ssetting out across the dangerous frontier in hopes of a big reward and a better future.

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  • 2026
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    Black Tides

    Black Tides

    1 2026 HD

    Rebecca reunites with her estranged father, Bill, in sunny Málaga expecting a healing family trip with her young son, Sebastian. Instead, their voyage across the Strait of Gibraltar becomes a nightmare as they’re relentlessly attacked by rogue orcas. Rebecca, confronting deep emotional wounds, must rise as an unlikely hero in a battle for survival.

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  • 2023
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    Bed Rest

    Bed Rest

    6.22 2023 HD

    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.

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  • 2025
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    Traces of Home

    Traces of Home

    1 2025 HD

    Delving into the past and not shying away from the dug-up pain, a young filmmaker speaks to her Mexican mother and Palestinian father about their trying journeys into the United States. In a society with rhetoric increasingly vilifying Mexicans and Palestinians, the filmmaker picks up her camera in a bid to address the grief at the center of the generational trauma that has underscored her relationship with her family. A meditation of loss and grief relieved, ultimately, through reconciliation.

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  • 2015
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    Club de Cuervos

    Club de Cuervos

    8.4 2015 HD

    When the patriarch of a prominent family dies, his heirs battle to determine who will gain control of his beloved soccer team: The Cuervos of Nuevo Toledo.

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  • 2019
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    Tamron Hall

    Tamron Hall

    4.9 2019 HD

    Former news host and journalist Tamron Hall discusses all things topical and engages those she interviews in thorough meaningful and entertaining conversations.

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  • 2014
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    Siempre tuya Acapulco

    Siempre tuya Acapulco

    2 2014 HD

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  • 2022
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    Keep Breathing

    Keep Breathing

    6.112 2022 HD

    When a small plane crashes in the middle of the Canadian wilderness, a lone survivor must battle the elements — and her personal demons — to stay alive.

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  • 2015
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    Tanto Amor

    Tanto Amor

    2 2015 HD

    In this novel we will see how love struggles to survive and overcome all obstacles. The Lombardo family is very wealthy and is one of the most recognized, everything in it is perfection, they maintain a quiet life. But from one moment to another everything starts to be chaos. The Lombard brothers will face each other, Alberto is the good brother, a man of honor, but his brother Bruno is full of envy and ambition. The trigger for everything is the love that Alberto and Mia have for each other, but who is Mia? She is a young woman who grew up in a humble family and when her father died, her family was received by the Lombards. There is a secret that many will try to protect at all costs that is why they will act against Mia and especially against her union with Alberto since it is a threat to their ambitions.

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  • 2018
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    Vida

    Vida

    6.391 2018 HD

    Two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles who couldn't be more different or distanced from each other are forced to return to their old neighborhood, where they are confronted by the past and surprising truth about their mother’s identity.

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  • 2019
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    The Kelly Clarkson Show

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

    6.3 2019 HD

    Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.

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  • 2012
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    La Mujer de Judas

    La Mujer de Judas

    4 2012 HD

    La mujer de Judas is a Mexican telenovela produced by Maricarmen Marcos for Azteca. It is based on Venezuelan novela of the same name. It stars Anette Michel, Victor Gonzalez, and Andrea Marti. It replaced Cielo Rojo on January 13, 2012. Adapted by Paz Aguirre and Gabriel Santos, this adaptation is supervised by the original writer, Martin Hahn.

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  • 2020
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    Acting for a Cause

    Acting for a Cause

    6.2 2020 HD

    Acting for a Cause is a live read series of classic plays and screenplays created, produced, directed and hosted by Brando Crawford featuring young Hollywood actors such as Academy Award Nominee Florence Pugh, Emmy Nominee Margaret Qualley, and 80 other young Hollywood stars. Each reading is organized to raise money for a specific charity. The readings garnered over 500,000 viewers between the first play read on March 27, 2020 and the last announced read on July 31, 2020. The reading series was a direct response to the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic and launched Brando Crawford's career as a director and producer.

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  • 2014
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    A Love To Remember

    A Love To Remember

    7.4 2014 HD

    A rich and handsome architect is flying from Acapulco to Mexico City when his plane crashes. A beautiful, young girl finds him in the forest and decides to bring him home to look after him.

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  • 2025
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    The Copenhagen Test

    The Copenhagen Test

    5.9 2025 HD

    When an analyst discovers his eyes and ears have been hacked, he's drawn into a controlled world designed by his agency to draw out their enemies.

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  • 1992
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    MTV Movie & TV Awards

    MTV Movie & TV Awards

    8.1 1992 HD

    The annual film & TV awards show presented by MTV. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV with winners decided online by the general public.

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