Melissa De Sousa
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
Miss Congeniality
2000
Laurel Canyon
2003
30 Years to Life
2001
Constellation
2007
Bats: Human Harvest
2007
Lockdown
2000
The Best Man Holiday
2013
Ashes
2011
Ride
1998
The Ron Clark Story
2006
Cru
2014
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
2008
Supermodel
2015
The Best Man
1999
Saturday Night Life
2006
Operation: Aunties
2025
Castle
2009
One on One
2001
Ghost Whisperer
2005
The $treet
2000
The Wayans Bros.
1995
Grown Ups
1999
Black Lightning
2018
Moesha
1996
Living Single
1993
ER
1994
Second Time Around
2004
Damon
1998
Reed Between the Lines
2011
Single Ladies
2011
Criminal Minds
2005
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Valley of the Dolls
1994
The Best Man: The Final Chapters
2022
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019
Elementary
2012
Ladies of the Law
2018
Shameless
2011
Bel-Air
2022
Living Single
1993