Melissa Navia

Melissa Navia

Born: August 24, 1984
in New York, New York, USA
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 Arts, where she earned a BFA in drama.

Navia began her acting career in the theater, appearing in productions of The Crucible, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She also appeared in several short films and television commercials.

Navia's breakthrough role came in 2013, when she was cast as Dawn in the sci-fi movie The Paragon Cortex. The film won several awards at the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival, including Best Actress for Navia.

In 2022, Navia was cast as helmsman Erica Ortegas in the television series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The series is a prequel to the original Star Trek series and follows the adventures of the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike. Navia's performance as Ortegas has been praised by critics and fans alike.

In addition to her work on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Navia has also appeared in several other television series, including Bull, New Amsterdam, Billions, and Dietland. She has also appeared in the films The Perfect Match and The Girl Who Invented Kissing.

Navia is a writer and stand-up comedian. She is also a trained martial artist and sword fighter.

Movies for Melissa Navia...

Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Character: Erica Ortegas
Released: May 5, 2022
Type: TV
Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
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Tower of Silence
Title: Tower of Silence
Character: Lior
Released: October 18, 2019
Type: Movie
When the great sorceress Kae is captured by a mysterious enemy, her young followers devise a plan to rescue her.
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Title: The Ready Room
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 2019
Type: TV
Welcome to The Ready Room. Every Thursday Wil Wheaton will sit down with members of the Star Trek: Picard cast and crew to discuss the weekly episodes.
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Title: New Amsterdam
Character: Co-Pilot Eva Schafer
Released: September 25, 2018
Type: TV
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.
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Bel Canto
Title: Bel Canto
Character: Esmeralda
Released: September 13, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Bull
Character: Tidal
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.
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The Chosen
Title: The Chosen
Character: Sabrina
Released: July 23, 2015
Type: Movie
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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What It Was
Title: What It Was
Character: Hilary
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: Movie
An old flame is reignited and a new desire is awaken when Hollywood Actress Adina J. Spencer returns back to New York. Soon she is forced to face her sexual past, confront her present identity, and admit her true love.
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Amira & Sam
Title: Amira & Sam
Character: Police Clerk
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Me Anyway
Title: Love Me Anyway
Character: Jack
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Love Me Anyway is a sun soaked drama about a filmmaker falling for a dreamy surfer, a man trying to save his marriage and a young wife exploring the greener grass of an extramarital affair with another woman.
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The Paragon Cortex
Title: The Paragon Cortex
Character: Dawn
Released: October 5, 2013
Type: Movie
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Sleeping with the Fishes
Title: Sleeping with the Fishes
Character: Casey
Released: August 10, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Girl Most Likely
Title: Girl Most Likely
Character: Assistant
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
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.