Melody won the Dutch Academy Award for Best Actress for the Leading role in the international film Rafaël, directed by Oscar-nominated director Ben Sombogaart in 2019.
She started acting at a very young age and she had been nominated for the Dutch Academy Award before at the age of 14, in the coming-of-age-film Deep (2005) and she won a Rembrandt Award for Best Actress for her performance in the feature Winter in Wartime (2008) by Martin Koolhoven (Brimstone)
She studied at the Theater Academy Maastricht and graduated with the performance Tjechov for which she won the ‘Kemna’-Award for most promising actress in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2014.
On stage, she appeared in Othello (2020) with the National Theatre directed by Daria Bukviç, and in Palermo (2020) at the DeLaMar Theatre. In the summer of 2021, she also published her debut novel Just a regular butterfly, a partly auto-biografic coming-of-age.
A small selection of productions she participated in the last years are; The Golden Hour by Bobby Boermans (2021) The drama series Emergency by Joram Lürsen, (2021–2023) The biopic series JUDAS II by Remy van Heugten (2022) the crime thriller Incognito by Thomas Korthals Altes (2023), A murder cost more lives (mini-series, 2024) The international dystopian series Arcadia directed by Tim Oliehoek (2023–2025) and the popular television series Sisters (2023-2025) by Annemarie van de Mond.
