Melissa Mars

Melissa Mars is a French singer, songwriter, and actress.

She released three solo albums with Universal Music and featured on duets, including 1980, which reached No. 5 in the charts.

She was in Mozart, l'opéra rock.

Mars started acting at the age of 13 in her hometown, Marseilles.

At 16, she moved to Paris with her single mother and continued acting while pursuing a curriculum of math and science at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand.

She made her film debut in the Laurent Heynemann feature, One Way Ticket. She became a singer-songwriter, partnering with Lilas Klif, her mother, to co-author lyrics.

She released three solo albums with Polydor and Universal Music, and several duets.

Her single from 1980 reached No. 5 in the charts.

She gained prominence in the early 2000s for her stages.

Born and raised in Marseille, France, Melissa Mars showed an interest in the performing arts.

She began her career as a singer, releasing her debut single, Elle, in 2003.

In 2009, she played a leading role in the rock musical Mozart, l'opéra rock, directed by Olivier Dahan.

Melissa Mars played the role of Aloysia for 346 shows for 1.5 million spectators, resulting in three NRJ Music Awards, a diamond record (over 700,000 sales), and a 3D movie filmed by FX guru Mark Weingartner (The Matrix, Inception).

She appeared in the Super Bowl spot for From Paris with Love alongside John Travolta.

Five more American feature films followed in less than a year, in which she starred alongside the likes of Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), David Proval (Mean Streets, The Sopranos), and Vinnie Jones (Snatch, X-Men).

In November 2014, Mars role in The Cabining garnered a Best Supporting Actress Award at the FANtastic Horror Film Festival in San Diego, California.

She made her American TV debut on Lifetime in Deadly Delusions, a thriller alongside Haylie Duff (Napoleon Dynamite) and Teri Polo (Meet the Parents, The Fosters).

Her series of Children of China portraits was exhibited in Paris for a month during International Children’s Day, printed on canvas, and measuring nearly six feet long.