Melody won the Dutch Academy Award for Best Actress for the Leading Role for her performance in the international film Rafaël, directed by Oscar-nominated director Ben Sombogaart in 2019.
Melody started acting at a very young age and she has played many beautiful (leading) roles. She had been nominated for the Golden Calf Award before at the age of 14, in the coming-of-age-film Deep (2005), also for Best Leading Actress. She graduated from the Theater Academy Maastricht in 2014, with the performance Tjechov, for which she won the ‘Kemna’-Award for most promising actor/actress in the Netherlands and Belgium.
She has played in multiple (arthouse) films and television series, such as Northern Light (2006) by David Lammers, Dusk (2010) by Hanro Smitsman and in box-office hits such as Keep off (2006) by Maria Peters and in the award-winning Winter in Wartime (2008) by Martin Koolhoven (Brimstone), for which Melody won a Rembrandt Award for Best Actress.
On Television, she has had roles in series such as Godforsaken (2012), The Jackpot, I Know who you are (2018) and many more. Recent series in which Melody has starred in are NOOD I & II (2021-2023), Incognito (2023) ARCADIA (2023) and the tv series Zussen (2024), directed by Annemarie van de Mond.
