Melissa De Sousa

Born: 1967-09-25

Melissa De Sousa is an actress best known for her role as Shelby in the 1999 romantic comedy-drama film The Best Man, its 2013 sequel The Best Man Holiday, Gabriella Jimenez in BET's Reed Between the Lines, and Ana Lopez in Black Lightning. 


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Miss Congeniality

as Karen Krantz
Released: 2000-12-22

When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's...

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The Best Man

as Shelby
Released: 1999-10-22

After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to...

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The Ron Clark Story

as Marissa Vega
Released: 2006-08-13

A passionate and innovative teacher leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's...

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The Best Man Holiday

as Shelby
Released: 2013-11-15

When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how...

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Laurel Canyon

as Claudia
Released: 2003-03-07

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting...

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Bats: Human Harvest

as O'Neal
Released: 2007-11-10

A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in...

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Lockdown

as Krista
Released: 2000-09-15

Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track....

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Ride

as Leta
Released: 1998-03-27

A group of young people leave Harlem for a bus trip down to Miami. The voyage starts off with...

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30 Years to Life

as uncredited
Released: 2001-09-04

First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6...

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Ashes

as Camille
Released: 2011-03-05

A young Indian man struggles in the inner city of New York to support himself and his mentally...

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Constellation

as Lucy Boxer
Released: 2007-02-01

Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as...

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find

as Monica
Released: 2008-05-03

An examination of the romantic lives of three contemporary Black women: shrewd Rachel, upright...

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Supermodel

as Det. Lacey
Released: 2015-06-15

A young girl from the Brooklyn housing projects goes from the subway to the runway becoming one...

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Saturday Night Life

as Darlene Maye
Released: 2006-06-22

Writer-director Ava DuVernay's short drama concerns a poor, struggling single mother whose trip...

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Cru

as Michelle Hughes
Released: 2014-06-21

A tight knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state...

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Criminal Minds

as Adele McCord
First aired: 2005-09-22

An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating...

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Shameless

as Tina
First aired: 2011-01-09

Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids,...

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Castle

as Liz Penn
First aired: 2009-03-09

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard...

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Elementary

as Luz Horowitz
First aired: 2012-09-27

A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases....

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Ghost Whisperer

as Christine Nelson
First aired: 2005-09-23

Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the...

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The Kelly Clarkson Show

as uncredited
First aired: 2019-09-09

Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well...

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ER

as Estella
First aired: 1994-09-19

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...

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Bel-Air

as Steph
First aired: 2022-02-13

The journey of a book smart teen whose life is forever transformed when he moves from the...

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The Wayans Bros.

as Charmaine
First aired: 1995-01-11

The Wayans Bros. is a situation comedy that aired from January 1995 to May 1999 on The WB. The...

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Black Lightning

as Chief Ana Lopez
First aired: 2018-01-16

Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal...

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Moesha

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-01-23

Moesha was an American sitcom series that aired on the UPN network from January 23, 1996 to May...

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Living Single

as uncredited
First aired: 1993-08-29

Living Single is an American television sitcom that aired for five seasons on the Fox network...

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One on One

as Natalie
First aired: 2001-09-03

A sportscaster becomes a full-time dad when his ex-wife decides to accept a job out of the...

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The $treet

as Donna Pasqua
First aired: 2000-11-01

The $treet is an American television drama series about a small brokerage house called Belmont...

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On Becoming a God in Central Florida

as Mirta Herrera
First aired: 2019-08-25

In the early 1990s, a recently widowed, impoverished Orlando water park employee schemes and...

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Damon

as Stacy Phillips
First aired: 1998-03-22

Two brothers, one a bachelor and undercover detective, the other a married rent-a-cop are...

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Single Ladies

as Austin Aguilera
First aired: 2011-05-30

Single Ladies is an American comedy-drama television series on VH1 that debuted on May 30, 2011,...

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The Best Man: The Final Chapters

as Shelby
First aired: 2022-12-22

Catch up with Harper, Robyn, Jordan, Lance, Quentin, Shelby, Candace, and Murch as their...

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Reed Between the Lines

as Gabriella Jimenez
First aired: 2011-10-11

Reed Between the Lines is an American television family sitcom created by Kellie R. Griffin. It...

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Valley of the Dolls

as Neely O'Hara
First aired: 1994-06-13

A late-night syndicated TV series based on Jacqueline Susann's novel "Valley of the Dolls" which...

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Ladies of the Law

as Tina
First aired: 2018-11-01

An examination of love, life, and litigation through the eyes of four gorgeous go-getters...

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