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Melissa Barrera

Melissa Barrera

2 films · 324 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20232024

Born 4 July 1990 · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Melissa Barrera Martínez 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).

How their films are shot

Measured across 324 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Melissa takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 91% of their frames are night, 90% low key — the look of the work Melissa takes.

Time of day

Night91%
Day5%

Lighting

Low key90%
Natural9%

Shot size

Medium52%
Closeup31%
Wide10%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
Low angle9%
High angle6%

Mood

Tense36%
Neutral26%
Ominous14%
Mysterious10%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 324 frames from Melissa Barrera's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.