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Watch clips of Melissa Villaseñor on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon She primarily does voice work on shows, such as Family Guy, Adventure Time, American Dad!, OK K.O.! After Villaseñor became a cast member of SNL in 2016, she deleted tweets she had previously written that some viewed as racist. She is an actress, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), … She is a cast member on Saturday Night Live, having joined in the 42nd season in 2016. 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Instead, Nasim Pedrad and Jenny Slate were hired.[17]. Select Your Cookie Preferences. Melissa started her career in the 90s where she made appearances on various TV shows and movies. At 12 years old, she realized she could do singing impressions, her first being Britney Spears. Select Your Cookie Preferences. Melissa Anne Villaseñor (/ ˌ v iː j ə s ɪ n ˈ j ɔːr / VEE-yə-sin-YOR; born October 9, 1987) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, impressionist, visual artist, and singer. Villaseñor was born and raised in Whittier, California, and attended the Catholic Ramona Convent Secondary School in Alhambra, California. She is an actress, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), Hubie Halloween (2020) and OK K.O.! After Fred undergoes a nervous breakdown, the gang decides to stay at a Florida resort but they quickly realize there's a mystery lurking nearby. Film Independent announced that “Saturday Night Live” cast member Melissa Villaseñor will host the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards.The ceremony will air exclusively on IFC and AMC Plus on April 22 at 10 p.m. “As someone who considers herself a pretty dependent person, I’m truly honored to host the Film Independent Spirit Awards,” Villaseñor said in a press release. Take a visual walk through her career and see 41 images of the characters she's voiced. Melissa Villasenor pictures and photos. [3] Her other credits include voice work on several episodes of OK K.O.! About . She enjoyed making her peers at school laugh, so she performed singing impressions in the talent show. [16] She previously auditioned for the show in 2009. [13] Villaseñor is the second Latina cast member after Noël Wells, who is a quarter Mexican,[14] and the first Latina to be promoted to repertory status. [16] In 2018, she told Elizabeth Blair on Weekend Edition Saturday, "I'm flawed like everyone else, and yeah, I just wanted to make sure I was perfect. Categories. [6] Previously, she was selected for the New Faces lineup in the 2010 Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival. Lively and alluring actor Melissa Benoist made her first big splash with audiences in 2012, when she was cast as the fresh-faced Marley Rose on the hit musical series "Glee" (Fox, 2009-2015). FIRST IMPRESSIONS — Season:1 — Pictured: Melissa Villasenor — (Photo by: Joseph Viles/USA Network) We just got finished praising Melissa Villaseñor for breaking the glass ceiling for Latinas on Saturday Night Live, and not nearly a week later, we’re already going onto the next with Villaseñor in our rear-view mirrors because of some tweets she made on her now-private Twitter page.