33 Facts About Melissa Fumero

Melissa Fumero is an American actress and television director.

Melissa Fumero made her professional debut in 2004 in the recurring role of Adriana Cramer in the television soap opera One Life to Live.

Melissa Fumero is married to actor and former model David Fumero, with whom she has two sons.

Melissa Fumero Gallo was born in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, on August 19,1982.

Melissa Fumero's mother was a homemaker and hairdresser, and her father taught mathematics and worked at a jewelry store.

Melissa Fumero grew up in Guttenberg and moved back to Lyndhurst at age six.

Melissa Fumero expressed interest in acting after seeing Broadway's The Secret Garden at age ten.

Melissa Fumero has said she enjoyed theater lessons because she and her classmates focused on performing rather than their physical appearances.

Melissa Fumero remained enrolled in dance and acting classes until her graduation.

Melissa Fumero felt ostracized when she began working in the entertainment business.

Melissa Fumero was only able to audition for certain roles.

Melissa Fumero joined the series on January 20,2004, and reprised the role in two 2005 episodes of All My Children.

Melissa Fumero was set to leave the show shortly after her contract with OLTL expired in January 2008, but stayed until June 11; her final scenes were filmed in May Melissa Fumero returned to One Life to Live on several occasions between September 2008 and January 2011.

Melissa Fumero's first starring role and breakthrough came in 2013, when she was cast in Fox's untitled comedy pilot as the female lead opposite Andy Samberg.

Melissa Fumero is one of the show's two regular Latina cast members, the other being Stephanie Beatriz, who portrays Rosa Diaz.

Melissa Fumero described this casting as groundbreaking, though the two feared one of them would be fired.

Club praised the contrasts between Samberg's and Melissa Fumero's acting styles, calling her "a real find".

Reception of Melissa Fumero's performance was positive; Collider lauded her comedic timing, drive, and vulnerability, while Entertainment Weekly found her acting convincing in a scene in which Amy tells Jake "[n]othing's going to happen" between them romantically.

Melissa Fumero's performance garnered her an Imagen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress; she later received three more nominations for her work on the same show, including a win in 2022.

Melissa Fumero said she found comic acting much easier, having become more familiar with Amy's character, and added she had "fallen into a real groove and rhythm" with her approach to scenes.

Melissa Fumero was pregnant during the season's production, which led to a storyline in which Amy goes undercover as a pregnant woman.

Melissa Fumero dismissed the possibility but her manager had her direct a webisode, which she "ended up really loving".

Melissa Fumero made her directorial debut with the episode "Return of the King" in 2019.

Melissa Fumero said the latter role was "especially huge" because she worked with Gloria Estefan, to whose songs she listened as a child.

When she auditioned, Melissa Fumero was not given any information about the show; she accepted the role when she learned Patton Oswalt would help develop and write the show, knowing it was "going to be hilarious".

Melissa Fumero compared the experience of leaving Brooklyn to high-school graduation:.

However, she was excited when she was given the script for Netflix's comedy Blockbuster, whose writer, Vanessa Ramos, Melissa Fumero had met on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and described as "one of the funniest people [she has] ever met".

Melissa Fumero thought the script was "amazing" and accepted the role, partially because she wanted to work with Ramos and lead actor Randall Park.

Melissa Fumero "immediately connected" to her character Eliza, a devoted mother who is experiencing difficulties with her marriage to her teenage boyfriend.

At first, Melissa Fumero felt nervous about portraying Eliza, who she wanted to ensure was a distinctive character.

Melissa Fumero directed two episodes of the 2023 sitcom Primo, which was created by Shea Serrano and co-executive produced by Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator Michael Schur.

Melissa Fumero appeared in The Hollywood Reporter "Young Hispanic Hollywood Class of 2013".

Melissa Fumero met actor and former model David Melissa Fumero, a fellow Cuban-American, on the set of One Life to Live.