Melissa Mars

What Melissa Mars makes

Topics acting, music, filmmaking, theater, entertainment

International award-winning actress, singer-songwriter and filmmaker, based in NY, Mars was born and raised in France with roots in Algeria. Described as “Tinker Bell transformed by Tim Burton” Le Monde, she is well-known in France for her pop music career, 3 solo albums with Universal Music, the hit duet song “1980”, her leading role in Mozart the Rock Opera directed by Olivier Dahan (Oscar-winning film La Vie en Rose), a smash hit musical with more than 1,500,000 tickets sold. She received major notice in the U.S. after appearing alongside Travolta in From Paris With Love produced by Luc Besson, and having her song “Beautiful” picked up by Coca-Cola Music for their worldwide music compilation album. "Powerful", "Heartfelt", "Thought-provoking"... Mars’ work has been praised, receiving multiple awards as an actor, a screenwriter and a filmmaker with her dystopia The Last Touch, or My Ancestors’ Song, an award-winning short screenplay, being adapted into a feature film...

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