Tracy Miller

Melissa Papel's life began amidst the Nicaraguan war, accompanying her journalist mother. After traveling through diverse countries like Cuba, Finland, and Mauritania, she was finally born in Paris on July 9, 1985. With a French engineer father and a mother writing on geopolitics for the French press, she continued her nomadic lifestyle. At 15, she ventured to Australia, attending high school in Sydney. Returning to Paris with fluent English, she joined the American section of Saint-Germain International High School and enrolled in Cours Florent, a renowned acting school. Alongside her studies, she pursued tango, salsa, and horseback riding. At 19, she moved to Canada, studying film and television acting at the Vancouver Film School for a year. During her three years in Vancouver, she acted in several short films, working with a prominent agency and even auditioning for major productions like X-Men 3. A short film led her to the Cannes Film Festival. She then starred as Gülsüm in the Turkish TV series 'Elveda Rumeli,' learning the Rumeli accent in Macedonia while simultaneously studying Azeri for a leading role in 'Saha,' an Azeri-Georgian-Russian film competing for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. She also secured a lead role in 'Off Karadeniz,' a French-Turkish comedy where she plays an Izmir girl falling for a Laz young man from the Black Sea region. Now 24, she speaks French, English, and Turkish fluently, knows Spanish well, and is learning Russian. Her extensive film festival experience across various countries fuels her ambition for international success.