Meiling Melançon

Meiling Melançon

Born: March 3, 1980
in Manila, Philippines
Meiling Melançon (born March 3, 1980) also known as Mei Melançon 明依, is an American actress, screenwriter and former fashion model. She has had a prolific career with her versatile looks and abilities. She has appeared in major feature films as well as indie films, television shows, and over a hundred commercials as a model and actress. As of 2014 she is becoming known for work behind the camera in roles such as screenwriter and producer.

Meiling Melançon was raised in mainly Japan, Hong Kong and Korea, she is of French, Chinese, and Japanese descent. As a child she traveled throughout Asia and Europe. Her mother is of French heritage and her father is Chinese and Japanese. At the age of five her mother taught her how to play the guitar, and she was later in a children's band called Blossoms. In an interview with Giant Robot editor Eric Nakamura, Mei spoke about her nontraditional strict upbringing. She was not allowed to watch most films and television, only classics and that they were not allowed to listen to popular music due to religious reasons.

Melançon started acting in 2003. She was at that time a successful model and was signed to Wilhelmina Modeling Agency. She appeared on "Legends of Tomorrow" as Masako Yamashiro in season 2. Melançon also appeared in the final season of The L Word as recurring character "Jamie Chen," as Psylocke in X-Men: The Last Stand, as "Miyu", Kevin Spacey's assistant in Shrink, as Lynda in the HK-shot film Irreversi, as Dr. Catherine Ivy in the psychological thriller/horror film Pathology with Milo Ventimiglia, and as the other "Girl in the Car" along with Maggie Q in Rush Hour 2 when she was still modeling. Melançon also starred as Lotus Long in the short film bio-pic Keye Luke, which premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and which was Closing Night Film of the inaugural 2013 Seattle Asian American Film Festival. She starred in Blumenthal where she played Scottish actor Brian Cox's niece, and the film made its premiere in 2013 at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

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Movies for Meiling Melançon...

Confetti
Title: Confetti
Released: May 14, 2023
Type: Movie
Arai is the architect of her perfect building. As she begins to accept her sexual attraction to the building, her ex-lover comes to town in an attempt to win her back.
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Higher Power
Title: Higher Power
Character: Ms. Sabi
Released: May 11, 2018
Type: Movie
When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test subject of a maniacal scientist in a battle that could save the world – or destroy it.
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American Romance
Title: American Romance
Character: Denice Torres
Released: October 23, 2016
Type: Movie
A series of horrifying murders, the victims, always couples, staged in bizarre collage dioramas with cardboard cutouts and scribbled, childlike messages about the corrupting power of love. The killer's on the loose, and the FBI is looking for a truck driver. Emery Reed is a long haul trucker disillusioned with the American Dream after an accident left his wife paralyzed and took the life of their son. Newlyweds Jeff and Krissy are having the time of their lives until their car breaks down on a rural road in the middle of nowhere. When the love birds collide with the forlorn truck driver, a wild ride leaves everyone questioning the true value of love and American Romance.
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Wake Up
Title: Wake Up
Character: Julie / Additional Voices
Released: March 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A debt collector has a nervous breakdown at work on the anniversary of his wife's suicide. He is pulled between reality and a hallucinative journey into his subconscious as he desperately searches for a way out of his misery.
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Title: DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Character: Masako Yamashiro
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: TV
When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?
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Blind Devotion
Title: Blind Devotion
Character: Cecilia
Released: January 28, 2015
Type: Movie
When a wife can no longer contribute to her relationship the way she used to, her husband gets the chance to show her what unconditional love means to him.
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Nightmare Code
Title: Nightmare Code
Character: Nora Huntsman
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: Movie
After a programmer working on a top secret surveillance program snaps in a murderous rage, a notorious code wizard with problems of his own moves into the startup offices to figure out what went wrong and deliver the final product. But the deeper he delves into the code, the more the code takes on a malevolent life of its own.
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Shockwave Darkside
Title: Shockwave Darkside
Character: The Machine
Released: August 22, 2014
Type: Movie
The nano-plague that poisoned Earth’s water supply has reached its 60-year critical mass. The Unlight enemy forced the first exodus to the moon where the outlawed banished population was supposed to die. But now the Unlights have launched from Earth and are amassing on the south-west sector of the darkside of the moon for a massive ice-mining operation. It will be the last Great War and lunar troops are sent into battle for the precious resource. However one squad is shot down and the five surviving soldiers find themselves stranded. Cut off and behind enemy lines, they start a dangerous journey through snipers and minefields back to their extraction point with only 36 hours of oxygen left. As their numbers dwindle and nerves fray, they make an amazing discovery about Earth’s satellite that just might save their lives. From THE BANSHEE CHAPTER producers comes a space shocker with gravity.
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Blumenthal
Title: Blumenthal
Character: Christina
Released: August 3, 2013
Type: Movie
A comedy that follows the relatives of Harold Blumethal, a legendary playwright who made his career parodying his family in his work and died laughing at his own joke.
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Keye Luke
Title: Keye Luke
Character: Lotus Long
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: Movie
KEYE LUKE is a short film bio-pic about pioneering Actor and Artist Keye Luke, the first, original on-screen Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet decades before Bruce Lee and also the All-American "Number One Son" in the popular Charlie Chan films of the 1930s.
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Shrink
Title: Shrink
Character: Miyu
Released: July 24, 2009
Type: Movie
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
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Irreversi
Title: Irreversi
Released: February 20, 2009
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Adam and Lynda have the perfect life. They are completely enamored with each other and Adam has just sold a technology patent for millions. However, their marital bliss soon fades when Lynda begins to suspect that Adam's newfound fortune could be tied to the recent death of her beloved brother. With the truth slowly emerging, how far will Adam go to hide his dark secrets from the one he loves, and will he be ready to live with the consequences?
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Pathology
Title: Pathology
Character: Catherine Ivy
Released: April 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Medical student Ted Grey graduates at the top of his class and quickly joins an elite pathology program, whose top students invite him into their circle. There he uncovers a gruesome secret: They play a game in which one tries to commit the perfect, undetectable murder, then the others compete to determine the victim's cause of death.
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X-Men: The Last Stand
Title: X-Men: The Last Stand
Character: Elizabeth Braddock / Psylocke
Released: May 24, 2006
Type: Movie
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
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Title: Deadwood
Character: Chinese Slavewhore
Released: March 21, 2004
Type: TV
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.
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Rush Hour 2
Title: Rush Hour 2
Character: Girl in Car
Released: August 3, 2001
Type: Movie
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Screaming Woman / Vanessa Green
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.