At 16, she moved to Paris with her single mother and continued acting while pursuing a curriculum of math and science at Lycée Louis-Le-Grand.

Melissa Mars played the role of Aloysia for 346 shows for around 1.5 million spectators, resulting in three NRJ Music Awards, a diamond record (over 700,000 sales), and a 3D movie filmed by FX guru Mark Weingartner (The Matrix, Inception).

Fox (Kill Bill), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), David Proval (Mean Streets, The Sopranos), and Vinnie Jones (Snatch, X-Men).

In November 2014, Mars role in The Cabining garnered a Best Supporting Actress Award at the FANtastic Horror Film Festival in San Diego, California.

She made her American TV debut on Lifetime in Deadly Delusions, a thriller alongside Haylie Duff (Napoleon Dynamite) and Teri Polo (Meet the Parents, The Fosters).