
Age: 36
female
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.

Melissa Barrera

Sam Carpenter
for Sam Carpenter in Scream 8 2027
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A new generation of teenagers discovers that Ghostface has returned to their quiet town, wielding a knife and a twisted obsession with horror movie rules. As brutal murders unfold, a group of friends—including a resourceful final girl, her skeptical best friend, and a film-obsessed outsider—must navigate escalating danger while questioning who among them might be the killer. The masked villain forces them to confront their own connections to the town's dark past, where old secrets and new grudges collide. With each death raising the stakes, the survivors must outsmart an opponent who knows every trick in the horror playbook. Paranoia spreads as trust shatters, and the line between victim and villain blurs. In a deadly game where knowing the rules might not be enough to survive, the final confrontation promises shocking twists and a reckoning that will redefine the franchise.