Inspirational Women In Hollywood: How Actress Melissa Ponzio Is Shaking Up The Entertainment Industry

Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine
Published in
12 min readFeb 1, 2023

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Photo credit: David Rams, Instagram: @davidramsstudios

… You are too kind. I think if we all take on being our best highest self on a daily basis, that would bring an enormous amount of good to the world. If there’s anything I’ve learned, you only have control over yourself. So what can we do individually each day to make it better?

We had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Melissa Ponzio. Melissa spent most of her childhood clowning it up at school and impersonating her beloved family. Then late one night, she saw Sigourney Weaver in “Alien” and knew right then and there what she wanted to be…an alien! But they said she couldn’t really be an alien, so on to the next best thing. After high school, she turned all that energy into her acting career.

Melissa can be seen in the Paramount+ “Teen Wolf: The Movie” revival, reprising her beloved role as ‘Melissa McCall,’ the hard-working and devoted single mother to ‘Scott’ (Tyler Posey). She previously starred in the MTV “Teen Wolf” series for six seasons, during which time her character discovered that her son is in fact a werewolf. A new and dynamic relationship developed

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Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine

A “Positive” Influencer, Founder & Editor of Authority Magazine, CEO of Thought Leader Incubator