Nikki Mejia
Biography
Nicole Mejia is a Los Angeles-based actor, director, writer and producer. She is the inaugural directing fellow for the Adelante Lab, a television shadowing fellowship created by the Latinx House in partnership with Netflix, Sundance and Shondaland. She is a finalist on HBO's Project Greenlight with Issa Rae. Her first feature 'A Place in the Field' was picked up for theatrical distribution by Lionsgate and Grindstone in 2023. Nicole's short film, 'Mancha' was awarded the LALIFF/Netflix Fellowship and premiered in June of 2022. Her AFI thesis film 'My Life Stopped at 15', based on her personal story of healing from sexual abuse, won the ASC Heritage award and is in competition at Camerimage 2022. She was recently a finalist for the WB and NBC television directing fellowships. Originally from Honduras, she is the first in her family to hold a BFA in theater from Cornish College of the Arts as well as an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute where she was awarded the Audi Fellowship for Women and the Franklin J. Schaffner Award for excellence in directing.
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Female Cousin
Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Viper One Pilot
The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A girl remembers her past relationship.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Pavla Blanca
Veteran Gio Scuderi receives a package that sends him on a road trip to fulfill a promise and confront his trauma.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Bree
Bree is picked up by her ex, Michael, via Uber as she goes into labor. Can they reconnect?