Melonie Diaz Biography, Age, Actress, Husband/Boyfriend, Movies, Tv Shows, Education

Melonie Diaz Age

She was born on April 25, 1984, in New York City, New York, U.S. She is 35 years old as of 2019.

Melonie Diaz Height/Weight

She stands at a height of 1.57 m (she has a weight of 50 Kg (110 Pounds)

Melonie Diaz Family

Melonie Diaz parents are of Puerto Rican descent. She has one older sister whom she is very close with.

Melonie Diaz Education

Melonie Diaz attended several schools like Professional Performing Arts School, Tisch School Of The Arts and New York University where she completed her degree in Film Production.

Melonie Diaz Husband/Boyfriend

Melonie Diaz was dating actor Victor Rasuk back in 2003.

Melonie Diaz Actress

Melonie Diaz started her film career with a supporting role in Tom DiCillo’s Double Whammy (2001) and later landed roles in Jim McKay and Hannah Weyer’s From an Objective Point of View and Peter Sollett’s Raising Victor Vargas (both 2002).

Television work at this time included an episode of Law & Order and a pilot for Queens Supreme (both 2003). Her breakthrough roles came as Blanca in Catherine Hardwicke’s Lords of Dogtown (2005) and as Laurie in Dito Montiel’s A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) which earned her an Independent Spirit Awards nomination for Best Supporting Female.

She was subsequently cast by Jamie Babbit in the lead role of Anna in Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007) as well as a role in Hamlet 2, Be Kind Rewind, and also played Christina in American Son in 2008. She appeared in the Mary J. Blige video “We Got Hood Love” which debuted on May 10, 2010.

In 2012, she starred in the indie romantic comedy, She Wants Me with Josh Gad and Kristen Ruhlin. In a hyped-up, Woody Allen, Annie Hall-type film, she plays a girl who gets caught in a love triangle between aspiring artists and a celebrity.

In 2013, she appeared in Fruitvale Station, a film based on the shooting of Oscar Grant. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it earned the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic.

The film had its international premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it played in the Un Certain Regard section and won the Un Certain Regard Best First Film award. For her work in the movie, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female.

She has expressed a desire to return to Tisch in order to complete her degree in filmmaking, citing director Kathryn Bigelow as an inspiration. In 2014 she appeared briefly on an episode of Girls as Susan, a friend of Jessa Johansson’s.

That same year she appeared in Ryan Piers Williams’ film X/Y alongside America Ferrera as well as The Cobbler starring Adam Sandler. In February 2018, Diaz was cast in the lead role of Mel Vera in The CW’s fantasy drama series Charmed, a reboot of the 1998 series of the same name.

The reboot “centers on three sisters in a college town who discover they are witches”. Diaz co-starred in the dystopian thriller The First Purge, the prequel to 2013’s The Purge and the fourth installment in The Purge franchise. The film was released July 4, 2018.

Melonie Diaz appeared in some movies in the dozens of movies like Double Whammy, Lords of Dogtown, Emil, Remember the Daze, American Son, Hamlet 2, The Cobbler, Nothing Like the Holidays, And Then I Go, All About Nina, and  television series like Charmed, Room 104, The Breaks, Girls, Person of Interest, Law & Order.

After some years, Diaz featured in the 2005 American biographical drama movie Lords of Dogtown, directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The co-stars of this movie are Heath Ledger, Victor Rasuk, Michael Angarano, and Nikki Reed.

Later, she appeared in an American horror-thriller film of Greg McLean. The movie became a hit and grossed $11.1 million at the box office.  Recently, Diaz is shooting for her upcoming American action-comedy movie Gringo, which has been directed by Nash Edgerton.

The stars of this movie are David Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, and Sharlto Copley. The movie is scheduled to be released on March 9, 2018, by Amazon Studios and STX international.

Similarly, Diaz has appeared in numerous movies and television series, including A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, Remember the Daze, American Son, Assassination of a High School President, Hamlet 2, Supporting Characters, And Then I Go, and Queens Supreme.