Melonie Diaz
Melonie Diaz
Film, Stage & Television Actress
Melonie Diaz is a film, stage, and television actress. Diaz is best known for her role in the award-winning film Fruitvale Station. She also had key roles in Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind and Peter Sollett’s Raising Victor Vargas.
I realized I wanted to be a storyteller when I was twelve. I did my first play and felt the audience react to one of the things I said. It's a powerful thing to make another person feel something.
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Other Works
FRUITVALE STATION
Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, director Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station” follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air.
RAISING VICTOR VARGAS
On New York City’s Lower East Side, Dominican teen and aspiring ladies’ man Victor Vargas has nothing but girls on his mind. Though he talks a big game at the local pool, Vargas’ true experience amounts to nothing more than a string of romantic rejections. After Vargas fails to improve his abysmal reputation by bedding an overweight classmate, he chooses a much more difficult target — the stunning and stuck-up Judy Ramirez.