Melissa De Sousa

Acting

Melissa De Sousa

Born 1967-09-25 · New York City, New York, USA

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. 

Acting credits

Miss Congeniality poster
6.5

When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female Agent at the office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.

Miss Congeniality

2000

The Ron Clark Story poster
7.6

Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional methods, including his ground-breaking classroom rules, to help them reach their potential. Based on a true story.

The Ron Clark Story

2006

The Best Man Holiday poster
6.5

When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.

The Best Man Holiday

2013

Laurel Canyon poster
6.0

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

Laurel Canyon

2003

The Best Man poster
6.6

After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new book is loosely based on the lives and loves of his tight-knit group of friends. Harper is set to be best man at his friend Lance's wedding, and all his friends will be in attendance. When an advance copy of the book makes its way into the hands of his ex-flame, Jordan, Harper attempts to keep it under wraps.

The Best Man

1999

Lockdown poster
6.0

Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.

Lockdown

2000

Bats: Human Harvest poster
4.7

A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh. As they search for Walsh's camp, they are attacked by genetically-altered carnivorous bats. The survivors attempt to reach helicopter extraction but encounter various challenges, including Chechen rebels.

Bats: Human Harvest

2007

Constellation poster
5.6

Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.

Constellation

2007

A Good Man Is Hard to Find poster
5.3

An examination of the romantic lives of three contemporary Black women: shrewd Rachel, upright Charlene, and independent Monica. As the trio grapples with relationship problems and tries to find Mr. Right, they gradually conquer their inner demons and put past mistakes behind them.

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

2008

Divas! poster
NR

When a conniving, over-the-hill Hollywood diva mysteriously turns up dead, no one who knew her is surprised. Now everyone from her co-stars to her director is a suspect and an ambitious police detective, who's also an aspiring screenwriter/actor/rapper, must get to the bottom of this hilarious whodunit.

Divas!

2015

Ride poster
5.8

A group of young people leave Harlem for a bus trip down to Miami. The voyage starts off with problems, but it ends up becoming a learning experience, as they end up finding things out about each other they had not previously known.

Ride

1998

30 Years to Life poster
6.3

An ensemble comedy that follows the lives of six friends in New York City during the year in which they each reach their 30th birthday. We meet an investment banker from Wall Street, a stand-up comedian, a real estate agent, a marketing executive who perceives any career advancement as a sign of getting old, and a man whose thanks for being in a four-year relationship is a girlfriend who insists on an even greater commitment.

30 Years to Life

2001

Operation: Aunties poster
10.0

When a dark web trafficking attempt impacts her family, blockchain expert Dr. Carol Cleavers joins forces with her best friend to take down a dangerous cyber operation exploiting women.

Operation: Aunties

2025

Cru poster
5.0

A tight knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state championship -- a catastrophe that will shape all their lives. But as adults, some 15 years later, they come together again for a reunion that will open olds wounds, expose long-hidden secrets -- and pave the road to forgiveness and redemption.

Cru

2014

Ashes poster
7.0

A young Indian man struggles in the inner city of New York to support himself and his mentally ill brother... but their lives are unraveling and he falls in with the wrong crowd.

Ashes

2011

Saturday Night Life poster
1.0

Writer-director Ava DuVernay's short drama concerns a poor, struggling single mother whose trip with her three children to a 99-cent store in Los Angeles becomes an unexpectedly uplifting family experience. Melissa DeSousa ("The Best Man") stars.

Saturday Night Life

2006

Supermodel poster
3.5

A young girl from the Brooklyn housing projects goes from the subway to the runway becoming one of the most sought after models in the fashion industry. But in the high stakes world of fashion and beauty. Things aren't always as pretty and glamorous as they seem.

Supermodel

2015