Bertila Damas

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Bertila Damas (* before 1986 in Cuba ) is an American film, television and theater actress .

Life

Damas is the daughter of a Puerto Rican -US mother and a Cuban father. She was born in Cuba as one of three siblings and came to the United States with her mother when she was three years old. While attending college in Miami , she made her first professional appearances in Spanish-language theater. She then went to New York City , where she attended the Circle in the Square Theater School and The Actors Studio . She also studied with Stella Adler .

She made her Broadway debut in 1986 at the Joseph Papps Shakespeare Festival at the Belasco Theater, when she played Juliet in Estelle Parsons ' production of Romeo and Juliet . During this time, from 1986 to 1987, she was also in Macbeth and as Audrey in As You Like It , both times also directed by Estelle Parsons. She had other stage appearances off Broadway, including in 1991 as Yerma in Federico García Lorca 's play of the same name at the Kreeger Theater of the Arena Stage, Washington, DC ; Directed by Tazewell Thompson and in 2005 as Clemencia in Luis Alfaros Electricidad at the Mark Taper Forum , Los Angeles ; Director: Lisa Peterson. In 2006 she won a Garland Award for her work in the latter performance.

Damas first noticed her acting on television in 1988 with her role as Marta in Angélica, mi vida , a Spanish-language telenovela . 1991 followed two screen appearances; once as Renalda Squiriniszu in Dan Aykroyd's comedy Valkenvania - The wonderful world of madness and once more as Estella Sanchez in Gillian Armstrong's melodrama Fires Within . After that, she mainly appeared in television productions. In the Star Trek universe she played in 1994 in the double episode The Maquis of the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with the role of Sakonna, a Vulcan who had joined the Maquis and in 1999 the survival instinct of Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager the Bajoran Marika Willkarah, who, once assimilated by the Borg , formed a unit with Seven of Nine . She had major series roles as Reina Sanchez in BYRDwatch (2011), as Pilar in Grimm (2012-2013), as Angelica in La Quinceañera (2017) and as Lenore in Lodge 49 (2019). The numerous other series in which she appeared, include Golden Palace (1992), New York Cops - NYPD Blue (1994, 2000), The Nine - Die Geiseln (2006-2007), Red Band Society (2015), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2017, 2019) and Pearson (2019). She also lent her voice in English to the character Maria Montalvo in the satirical cartoon series King of the Hill (1998).

Filmography

Movies

  • 1991: Valkenvania - The Wonderful World of Madness (Nothing But Trouble)
  • 1991: Fires Within
  • 1992: The Angel of Death from Grand Central ( Terror on Track 9 , TV movie)
  • 1993: Mi vida loca
  • 1993: Breaking Pan with Sol (TV movie)
  • 1994: Todo cambia (short film)
  • 1995: Spring Fling - Spring in Watercrest ( Spring Fling ! , TV movie)
  • 1997: Prison of Secrets (TV movie)
  • 1998: True Friends - True Friends (True Friends)
  • 1998: Mr. Murder - He will find you ... ( Mr. Murder , TV movie)
  • 2012: Your Father's Daughter (short film)
  • 2013: The Insomniac
  • 2016: Dependent's Day
  • 2017: Lucky

TV Shows

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bertila Damas: Deep, Mysterious and Diginified , LatinHeat Entertainment, Dr. Al Carlos Hernandez, May 8, 2013 on latinheat.com. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Actress Bertila Damas is proud of her Cuban heritage,… , Vernon Scott, March 2, 1991 on upi.com. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  3. ^ Theater , The Washington Post, Lloyd Rose, Oct. 11, 1991 on washingtonpost.com. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ Modern life jolted by myth , Los Angeles Times, Daryl H. Miller, April 8, 2005 on latimes.com. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ Bertila Damas on actorsaccess.com. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Damas, Bertila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film, television and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH before 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuba