---
name: "Melissa Kent"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/melissa-kent"
fi1m_id: "melissa-kent"
imdb_id: "nm0003151"
tmdb_id: 17233
wikidata_id: "Q54323963"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:15:13.462003+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Melissa Kent

## Identity

Melissa Kent

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/melissa-kent
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** melissa-kent
- **IMDb ID:** nm0003151
- **TMDB ID:** 17233
- **Wikidata ID:** Q54323963
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54323963, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003151/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17233

Editor. Born 1 January 1950.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1950
- **Active:** 2000–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 83 (1), 2020s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54323963, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003151/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17233

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Poker Face*](https://film.one/tv/poker-face.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Melissa Kent is a film and television editor. She grew up in Virginia, Washington D.C., New Jersey and Los Angeles, and studied theatre at UCLA before an internship at Entertainment Tonight led her into editing. Her first feature credit was on Gregory Nava's *My Family* (1995).

Kent has worked on projects for Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola, including co-editing *The Rainmaker* (1997) and editing *The Virgin Suicides* (1999). Other credits include *Crossroads* (2002), *The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2* (2008), *The Age of Adaline* (2015), *American Pastoral* (2016), *The Dirt* (2019) and *The Intruder* (2019). She edited episodes of the Peacock series *Poker Face* (2023).

Kent has a background in music and dance, which has informed her work on music-centred films such as *The Dirt* and the biopic *Mahalia* (2021).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Poker Face* (2023), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/poker-face.md)
- *The Virgin Suicides* (2000), Fi1m 83, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-virgin-suicides.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Música* (2024), Editor
- *Poker Face* (2023), series, Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/poker-face.md)
- *Tall Girl 2* (2022), Editor
- *Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia* (2021), Editor
- *American Son* (2019), Editor
- *The Intruder* (2019), Editor
- *The Dirt* (2019), Editor
- *Traffik* (2018), Editor
- *American Pastoral* (2016), Editor
- *Captive* (2015), Editor
- *The Age of Adaline* (2015), Editor
- *Louder Than Words* (2013), Editor
- *Make Your Move* (2013), Editor
- *Just Wright* (2010), Editor
- *Four Christmases* (2008), Editor
- *The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2* (2008), Editor
- *A Raisin in the Sun* (2008), Editor
- *An American Crime* (2007), Editor
- *Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'* (2007), Editor
- *Something New* (2006), Editor
- *Medium* (2005), series, Editor
- *The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone* (2003), Editor
- *Crossroads* (2002), Editor
- *Crazy/Beautiful* (2001), Editor
- *On the Edge* (2001), Editor
- *Baby* (2000), Editor
- *The Virgin Suicides* (2000), Editor — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-virgin-suicides.md)
- *Supernova* (2000), Editor
- *Some Girl* (1998), Editor
- *The Rainmaker* (1997), Co-Editor
- *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday* (1993), Assistant Editor
- *Hexed* (1993), Assistant Editor
- *52nd State*, Editor
- *Nutmeg & Mistletoe*, Editor

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/melissa-kent