Melissa Collazo | |
Birth Date: | 15 July 2000 |
Birth Place: | Orlando, Florida, United States |
Occupation: | Actress |
Years Active: | 2017–present |
Television: | One of Us Is Lying |
Melissa Collazo (born July 15, 2000) is an American television and film actress.
She was born in Orlando, Florida on July 15, 2000 to Puerto Rican parents. She has a younger brother born in 2005.[1] Her mother was the news director at the Latin American station Telemundo, and Collazo led child-friendly news segments on the station until she was about 12 years-old, when she decided to pursue acting.[2]
She appeared in Stranger Things and in the 2018 film The Little Mermaid.[3] She had a role in the 2020 film Freaky and in Swamp Thing, playing a younger version of the lead character Abby.[4]
In 2021, she appeared in a lead role in the film Lena and Snowball.[5] In 2021, she could also be seen playing Maeve Rojas on the Netflix teen slasher whodunnit series One of Us Is Lying, alongside Jess McLeod and Annalisa Cochrane.[6] [7] She returned to the role for a second series in 2022.[8]
In 2024, she began filming Motorheads for Amazon Prime Video with Ryan Phillippe.[9]
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Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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2017 | Stranger Things | Arcade Gamer | 3 episodes | |
2018 | data-sort-value="Little Mermaid, The" | The Little Mermaid | Circus oddity | |
2019 | Swamp Thing | Teen Abby | 2 episodes | |
2020 | Freaky | Ryler | ||
2021 | Lena and Snowball | Lena | Lead role | |
2021–2022 | One of Us Is Lying | Maeve Rojas | Main role | |
TBA | Motorheads | Caitlin | Filming |