# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-de-sousa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:27:39.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-de-sousa"
name: "Melissa De Sousa"
slug: "melissa-de-sousa"
description: "Melissa De Sousa is an American actress. She made her big screen debut playing the leading role in the 1998 comedy film Ride. She starred as Shelby in the 1999 romantic comedy-drama film The Best Man and later reprised her role in its 2013 sequel The Best Man Holiday and the 2022 Peacock series The Best Man: The Final Chapters."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jheJMUyabZBFfcoeRCWm8XDrj0r.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1967-09-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.767909333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0211726/"
    handle:    "nm0211726"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/14b121c5-1d5c-49c1-8b9c-a4b30c0030ac"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "ميليسا ديسويسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "ميليسا ديسويسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_De_Sousa"
    title: "Melissa De Sousa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_De_Sousa"
    title: "Melissa De Sousa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_De_Sousa"
    title: "Melissa De Sousa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A9%9C%EB%A6%AC%EC%82%AC_%EB%93%9C_%EC%88%98%EC%82%AC"
    title: "멜리사 드 수사"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Де Соуса, Мелисса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7_%DA%88%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "میلیسا ڈی سوسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529906"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/75696"
    title: "Melissa De Sousa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump