Melissa De Sousa

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

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

• Operation: Aunties (2025)
• Supermodel (2015)
• Divas! (2015)
• Cru (2014)
• The Best Man Holiday (2013)
• Ashes (2011)
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find (2008)
• Constellation (2007)
• Bats: Human Harvest (2007)
• The Ron Clark Story (2006)
• Saturday Night Life (2006)
• Laurel Canyon (2003)
• 30 Years to Life (2001)
• Miss Congeniality (2000)
• Lockdown (2000)
• The Best Man (1999)
• Ride (1998)
• The Best Man: The Final Chapters (2022)
• Bel-Air (2022)
• The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
• On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019)
• Black Lightning (2018)
• Ladies of the Law (2018)
• Elementary (2012)