Melissa Fumero Celebrates a Milestone
Birthday! Melissa Gallo was born on August 19, 1982, in Lyndhurst, New Jersey and is now celebrating her 40th birthday. She is the daughter of Cubans who moved to the United States as teenagers. Gallo grew up in Guttenberg up to age six and resided in Lyndhurst until she moved to New York City at nineteen.
After
graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University, Fumero was
cast in her first acting role on One Life to Live where she played
“Adriana Cramer” for four years and returned for a brief story arc in 2020.
Subsequently,
Fumero appeared in various television series before landing her next major and
her breakout role as “Amy Santiago” on The Fox comedy series (later NBC) Brooklyn
Nine-Nine where she played Amy from 2013 to 2021.
Fumero‘s
upcoming projects include the movie Bar Fight which centers on Nina
(Fumero) and Allen (Luke Jones) who split everything in their lives after their
break-up and must compete in a ridiculous custody battle for their prized
watering hole in which lines will be drawn, sides will be chosen, and beers
will be drunken. The movie is set to be released on November 11, 2022. And
Fumero is starring in the upcoming Netflix series Blockbuster. The comedy is set in the last Blockbuster Video in
America, and explores what it takes and who it takes for a small business to
succeed.
Happy Birthday!
(Article by Kenyan Smith)
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