¡No Me Digas! 15 MORE Stars You Never Knew Were Latino

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Melissa DeSousa, 43

Melissa DeSousa is best known for her role as Shelby, the manipulative, calculating and needy girlfriend of Harold Perrineau’s character Julian Murch in The Best Man (1999) — a movie that featured an all-Black cast. But DeSousa — who is also known for her role as outspoken Latina Lesbian Karen Krantz (“Miss New York”) in the Sandra Bullock comedy, Miss Congeniality (2000)— is an Afro-Latina of Panamanian descent. "Most people do know that I am Latina at this point," DeSousa tells Latina.com. "However, they usually ask the same questions: Are you Dominican? (Thinking most Dominicans are dark skinned), or because I'm from New York I must be Puerto Rican. Or they will ask 'are both of your parents Latino? What are you mixed with? Not realizing Latinos are all different complexions," she said.