---
name: "Melissa Navia"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/melissa-navia"
fi1m_id: "melissa-navia"
imdb_id: "nm4291609"
tmdb_id: 1333690
wikidata_id: "Q111039022"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 August 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T21:07:47.823692+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 Navia

## Identity

Melissa Navia

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/melissa-navia
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** melissa-navia
- **IMDb ID:** nm4291609
- **TMDB ID:** 1333690
- **Wikidata ID:** Q111039022
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Navia, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111039022, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4291609/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1333690

Actor. Born 24 August 1984 in New York, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 August 1984, New York, New York, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Navia, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111039022, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4291609/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1333690

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Star Trek: Strange New Worlds*](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds.md) (77)

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

## Biography

Melissa Navia is an American actress. She was born on 24 August 1984 in New York City.

Navia is best known for playing Lieutenant Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, in the Paramount+ series *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* (2022–present). She has also appeared in guest or recurring roles in series including *Billions* (2017) as Elena Gabriel, *Dietland* (2018) as Moana, *Bull* (2022) as Tidal, and *New Amsterdam* (2021) as Eva Schafer.

In 2013 Navia won the Best Actress award at the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival for her role as Dawn in the film *The Paragon Cortex*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* (2022), Fi1m 77, as Erica Ortegas — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* (2022), series, as Erica Ortegas — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds.md)
- *Tower of Silence* (2019), as Lior
- *New Amsterdam* (2018), series, as Eva Schafer
- *Bel Canto* (2018), as Esmeralda
- *Bull* (2016), series, as Tidal
- *Hymns* (2016), as Irene
- *Billions* (2016), series, as Elena Gabriel
- *The Chosen* (2015), as Sabrina
- *The Affair* (2014), series, as Waitress
- *What It Was* (2014), as Hilary
- *Amira & Sam* (2014), as Police Clerk
- *Growing Up and Other Lies* (2014), as Raja
- *Love Me Anyway* (2014), as Jack
- *The Paragon Cortex* (2013), as Dawn
- *Sleeping with the Fishes* (2013), as Casey
- *That's What She Said* (2012), as East Village Lucky Joe Patron
- *Girl Most Likely* (2012), as Assistant
- *Homeland* (2011), series, as EMT Julie — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/homeland.md)

## Gallery

- ![Melissa Navia at the 2025 NYCC Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Panel.](https://film.one/media/person/1291381/gallery-7e3c658936f7.jpg) Melissa Navia at the 2025 NYCC Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Panel. — Vbrunophotog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Melissa_Navia_at_the_2025_NYCC_Star_Trek_Strange_New_Worlds_Panel_-_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actress Melissa Navia as Medina in a scene from Love Eterne. (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/1291381/gallery-32b7c7675450.jpg) Actress Melissa Navia as Medina in a scene from Love Eterne. (2010) — Prz4587ill3, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Melissanavia002_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actress Melissa Navia as Medina in a scene from Love Eterne. Photo by Joseph Villapaz. This photo may be used, modified and published for any purpose, only if t (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/1291381/gallery-6f4fd0c5e649.jpg) Actress Melissa Navia as Medina in a scene from Love Eterne. Photo by Joseph Villapaz. This photo may be used, modified and published for any purpose, only if t (2010) — Prz4587ill3, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Melissanavia002.jpg/1280px-Melissanavia002.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Melissa Navia and Martin Quinn at the 2025 NYCC Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Panel.](https://film.one/media/person/1291381/gallery-9b9571759e71.jpg) Melissa Navia and Martin Quinn at the 2025 NYCC Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Panel. — Vbrunophotog, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Melissa_Navia_and_Martin_Quinn_at_the_2025_NYCC_Star_Trek_Strange_New_Worlds_Panel.jpg/1280px-Melissa_Navia_and_Martin_Quinn_at_the_2025_NYCC_Star_Trek_Strange_New_Worlds_Panel.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Melissa Navia](https://film.one/media/person/1291381/gallery-5db3aba002db.jpg) Melissa Navia — Image via TMDB

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