Melissa Navia

Acting

Melissa Navia

Born August 24, 1984 · New York, New York, USA (age 42)

Melissa Navia is an American actress known for playing helmsman Erica Ortegas in the television series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Navia was born in New York City on August 24, 1984. She attended the Professional Performing Arts School in New York City, where she studied acting, singing, and dancing. After graduating from high school, she attended the New York University Tisch School of the Ar…

Known For

Bel CantoBel Canto · 2018
Bel Canto
★ 5.42018
MovieDramaMusic
A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.
Girl Most LikelyGirl Most Likely · 2012
Girl Most Likely
★ 5.62012
MovieComedy
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
Growing Up and Other LiesGrowing Up and Other Lies · 2014
Growing Up and Other Lies
★ 4.42014
MovieComedy
After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan.
That's What She SaidThat's What She Said · 2012
That's What She Said
★ 5.02012
MovieComedy
Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.
Tower of SilenceTower of Silence · 2019
Tower of Silence
2019
MovieFantasy
When the great sorceress Kae is captured by a mysterious enemy, her young followers devise a plan to rescue her.
Amira & SamAmira & Sam · 2014
Amira & Sam
★ 6.02014
MovieDramaRomance
Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not trust him because he was an American soldier and her brother was killed by a bomb from American troops in the war. Sam's cousin, Charlie, asks Sam to help him with illegal hedge funds unbeknownst to Sam at the time. Amira is staying with her uncle Bassam since her father died. She sells bootlegged films on the street corner but is forced to stay with Sam after getting busted; immigration officials begin pursuing her. As the film progresses, Sam and Amira fall in love.
Sleeping with the FishesSleeping with the Fishes · 2013
Sleeping with the Fishes
★ 6.22013
MovieComedy
A woman's journey of self-discovery and the dynamics of her zany family. Alexis Fish is left broke and broken-hearted after the death of her cheating husband, working as a phone sex operator and a walking meatball hero. As she returns to her hometown of Brooklyn for a distant aunt's funeral, she fears to admit to her family and overbearing mother that her life is a mess. With help from her quirky sister Kayla and a new love interest, Alexis realizes she must let go of her past to define her own future.
The ChosenThe Chosen · 2015
The Chosen
★ 4.32015
MovieHorrorThriller
When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.

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