Melina Perez

What I respect about Melina is the self-made arc. She trained at Jesse Hernandez's School of Hard Knocks in 2000, debuted in 2001, and built a name in WWE before continuing on into the NWA. Wrestling rewards reinvention, and juggling roles as performer, model and manager takes a particular kind of resilience. At five-foot-four she was never the biggest figure in the ring, yet presence in that world has little to do with height. I am drawn to athletes who carve their own lane and keep showing up long after the spotlight shifts, and she clearly did.

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Name (English)

Melina Perez

Name (Japanese)

メリーナ

Reading

めりーな

Real name

メリーナ・ペレス

Born

March 9, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Height

163 cm

Occupation

film actor / professional wrestler / model / manager

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

High school

Hesperia High School

• Official sitehttps://realmelina.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/realmelina/
• Xhttps://x.com/RealMelina
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melina%20Perez
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230458

Tags

• California
• film actor
• professional wrestler
• model

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.