Age: 35
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.
In the HBO remake of "Signal," Lieutenant Sofia Hampton (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is a brilliant criminal profiler haunted by the trauma of witnessing two crimes in her childhood. She lost her classmate to murder and her older brother to an unsolved case. Additionally, she suffered the loss of her husband Jonathan to a psychopathic killer, causing her to have a miscarriage and be unable to conceive since. Despite her struggles, Sofia is an indispensable member of the London Metropolitan Police Force's Cold Case Squad. She is also the only one who can communicate with Aaron Evans (Daniel Craig), a detective from 2005 with whom she shares a mysterious connection. Melissa Barrera plays Joanna Alves, an American Cold Case Squad leader and former protege of Aaron. As Sofia and Joanna work on solving cold cases, they begin to unravel a larger conspiracy that links their past and present cases. The communication between Sofia and Aaron helps them piece together the puzzle and get closer to the truth.
