Melissa Barrera, who will be 32 years old in 2023, was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. She considers herself to be Christian and of Mexican heritage.
Melissa Barrera attended the American School Foundation of Monterrey from the age of four until she graduated from high school at the age of eighteen. She then went on to study musical theater at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Melissa Barrera started participating in theater while she was in middle school. She participated in school performances of many shows, including “Aida,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Footloose,” and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”
In her senior year of high school, Melissa started her professional career as Julieta in the Mexican adaptation of the original French musical “Romeo y Julieta.” She later appeared as Ariel in a local production of “Footloose” before moving to New York for college.
She auditioned for and was accepted for the Tisch School of the Arts Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21) in 2009.
