Melonie Diaz Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: When the unconventionally attractive actress Melonie Diaz took her onscreen bow at the outset of the millennium, she quickly racked up a series of roles in well-respected, intelligent films, consistently transcending the pitfall of ethnic typecast from project to project. Throughout, Diaz...Read More

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Nothing Like the Holidays

Actors: Freddy Rodriguez, John Leguizamo, Debra Messing, Alfred Molina, Jay Hernandez

Synopsis: Freddy Rodriguez, John Leguizamo, Debra Messing, Alfred Molina, and Elizabeth Peña star in Washington Heights director Alfredo de Villa's earnest family drama about the importance of familial relationships in times of personal crisis. The snow is falling and Christmas has come to Chicago. For the Read More

11/21/08
Assassination of a High School President

Actors: Mischa Barton, Reece Daniel Thompson, Bruce Willis, Michael Rapaport, Rumer Willis, Kathryn Morris

Synopsis: A teenage take on Roman Polanski's post-noir classic Chinatown, The Sophomore stars Reece Daniel Thompson, Mischa Barton, Bruce Willis, and Rumer Willis in the tale of a Catholic high-school newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a disturbing conspiracy. Prompted by the most popular girl in school Read More

11/14/08
Hamlet 2

Actors: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, David Arquette, Marshall Bell, Melonie Diaz

Synopsis: Steve Coogan stars in the comedy Hamlet 2, which follows a drama teacher who tries to put together a production of "Hamlet 2" to rescue his high-school theater department. Catherine Keener co-stars in the Andrew Fleming-helmed production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

8/22/08
Remember the Daze

Actors: Amber Heard, Alexa Vega, Leighton Meester, Melonie Diaz, Lyndsy Fonseca

Synopsis: The feature debut from writer/director Jess Manafort, this bittersweet teen comedy centers on a group of kids on the last day of school in 1999. With an ensemble cast featuring Lyndsy Fonseca, Amber Heard, and Alexa Vega, the film follows several students as they relish the advent of summer Read More

4/11/08
Be Kind Rewind

Actors: Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz

Synopsis: When a bumbling movie lover becomes magnetized while attempting to sabotage a local power plant and accidentally erases all of the videotapes in the small video store where his best friend works, the pair attempt to keep the store's loyal customer base by remaking as many of the top-renting movies Read More

2/22/08
I'll Come Running

Actors: Melonie Diaz, Jon Lange, Christian Tafdrup, Birgitte Raaberg, Hallie Bulleit

Synopsis: Director Spencer Parsons explores the subtle ways that a sudden connection can unexpectedly alter the course of one's life with this tale of a Danish tourist and a Texas waitress who form an unusually strong bond after partaking in what both assumed would be a typical one-night stand. In the wake Read More

2008
American Son

Actors: Nick Cannon, Melonie Diaz, Matt O'Leary, Jay Hernandez, Tom Sizemore, Chi McBride

Synopsis: A young man tries to tie up some loose ends before he goes to war in this independent drama from director Neil Abramson. Mike Holland (Nick Cannon) is nineteen years old and has just completed his basic training as a private in the United States Marine Corps. Mike has a four-day leave so he can Read More

2008
Feel the Noise

Actors: Omarion Grandberry, Zulay Henao, James McCaffrey, Kellita Smith, Melonie Diaz, Malik Yoba

Synopsis: A 21-year-old aspiring hip-hop star from the Bronx is forced to put his career on hold when a gang of local thugs threatens his life and he is forced to seek refuge with his estranged father in Puerto Rico in this musical drama from producer Jennifer Lopez. Rob (Omarion Grandberry) is a New York Read More

10/5/07
Itty Bitty Titty Committee

Actors: Melonie Diaz, Nicole Vicius, Daniela Sea, Carly Pope, Guinevere Turner, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: A secretary turns small-scale revolutionary in this satiric comedy-drama from director Jamie Babbit. Anna (Melonie Diaz) is a woman in her early twenties who has recently graduated from college but is still figuring out what she wants to do with her life. Anna works as a receptionist for a plastic Read More

9/28/07
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Channing Tatum

Synopsis: The harsh realities of life on the street merge with the universal themes of youthful pain and exhilaration in director Dito Montiel's telling tale of one boy's struggle to escape the grim fate that awaits his aimless, trouble-minded peers. For most of Montiel's friends, the only means of escaping Read More

9/29/06
Lords of Dogtown

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano, Nikki Reed

Synopsis: The true story of the kids who created modern skateboard culture is recreated in this drama. In the early '70s, skateboards were seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, but in a rough-and-tumble Venice, CA, community known as "Dogtown," that was about to change. Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk Read More

6/3/05
Raising Victor Vargas

Actors: Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte, Melonie Diaz, Altagracia Guzman, Silvestre Rasuk, Krystal Rodriguez

Synopsis: Victor (Victor Rasuk), a horny teenager living on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has an afternoon rendezvous with a girl known as "Fat Donna" (Donna Maldonado). When his sister, Vicki (Krystal Rodriguez), finds out about it, she spreads word throughout the neighborhood, severely damaging what Victor Read More

3/28/03