Marisa Ramirez

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Marisa Ramirez at PaleyFest NY 2014 at the Paley Center for Media in New York City (2014)

Marisa Maguire Ramirez (born September 15, 1977 in East Los Angeles , California ) is an American actress and model . She is best known for her roles in internationally broadcast television series.

life and career

Childhood, school days and beginnings as a model

Marisa Ramirez was born on September 15, 1977 in the city ​​of East Los Angeles , part of the metropolis of Los Angeles , where she also grew up. She has Mexican , Native American, and Irish ancestry. After her parents divorced when she was four, she was brought to her first audition by her mother when she was five, but at the time she had nothing to do with being an actress. When she was twelve, she was approached by an agent in a mall who helped her develop an early career as a model. In this way, she was still earning her own money at a young age, mainly for print campaigns, but over time also for television commercials and, from the 1990s, also in music videos by internationally known artists. She completed her schooling at St. Anthony Junior High School in Wailuku in Maui County , Hawaii , where she lived for a few years before moving to the Catholic girls' school Ramona Convent Secondary School in Alhambra , California . During this time she was on the yearbook team and cheerleaders, became homecoming queen of the boys' partner school Don Bosco Technical Institute, and graduated from the school in 1995. Shortly afterwards, when Ramirez was just 19 years old, her parents found each other again, remarried and gave her a brother (* 1996).

Subsequently, she started a short career at a junior college, but decided soon after, after she never really planned long-term with a degree, to give up her school education for modeling. She then traveled as a model around the world and visited countries such as Australia , South Africa , Hong Kong , Singapore and Italy . In 1996 she made an appearance in the video for the single Tease Me by the R&B pop group 3T , consisting of the three sons of Tito Jackson and, accordingly, the nephews of Michael and Janet Jackson , where she can be seen alongside the band in all settings of the video was. In the following years she appeared in music videos for the Backstreet Boys ( As Long as You Love Me , 1997) and Voices of Theory ( Wherever You Go , 1998) or in the music videos for Wild Wild West by Will Smith ft. Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee , Give It to You by Jordan Knight or American Woman by Lenny Kravitz (all in 1999). After she briefly hosted MTV in 2000, but ended her engagement there after her co-host of the show Senseless Acts of Video had an accident and the show had to be discontinued, she soon celebrated her first breakthrough as an actress.

Breakthrough after time as an actress in music videos

After she had guest appearances in soap operas such as Zeit der Sehnsucht or Reich und Schön , as well as in series such as USA High or Roswell at the end of the 1990s , when she played the role of supermodel Gia Campbell of the cosmetics company Deception in the long-lived US soap opera General in the summer of 2000 Hospital was cast. In this she was finally seen from 2000 to 2002 and also had appearances as Gia Campbell in the spin-off series Port Charles from 2000 to 2002 . She has been nominated for various film and television awards for her commitment, including a 2001 Soap Opera Digest Award in the “Outstanding Female Newcomer” category and an ALMA Award in the “Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama” category. A year later she was nominated for a prize in the category " Best Actress - Soap Opera " at the NAACP Image Awards 2002 ; however, she could not win any of these prizes. In December 2002 she was replaced in the soap opera by Andrea Pearson , who played her role until 2003 before the character was completely removed from the series. The reason for her departure from the soap opera was that she could fully concentrate on her work as the leading actress in the ABC television series Miracles , which later turned out to be short-lived , in which she was featured in all 13 episodes in the following year 2003 who saw Evelyn Santos , a former police officer and single mother. Before that, a week after her 25th birthday on September 22, 2002 on Maui , where she had once lived for several years, she had married her long-time friend Nathan Lavezoli. Parallel to Miracle , she also appeared in an episode of CSI: Miami in 2003 , where she was seen in the role of Susanna Medesto .

From 2004 she again had various guest and short appearances in some internationally known, but mostly short-lived television series. So she was seen in 2004 in the last of nine episodes of the CBS - science fiction series Century City or in the same year alongside Rob Lowe and Joe Pantoliano in the drama series Dr. Vegas , also a CBS production. In 2005 she starred in the never-aired pilot of the planned FOX series Hitched , penned by Lost co-creator Jeffrey Lieber . However, the series was never realized subsequently. This year she was also in All Souls Day: Dia de los muertos , a horror film and at the same time the first notable film production in which she was involved. In the production by director Jeremy Kasten she can be seen in a leading role alongside Travis Wester . After she was used in an episode of Without a Trace in 2006, she was also in the cast of the soap opera Shadow of Passion from April 2006 , in which she was the PR consultant for Jabot Cosmetics , Carmen Mesta , for around five months saw. After her character died a serial death, she appeared as Ines Varges , the confusingly similar-looking cousin of Carmen Mesta , until March 2007 . According to the Internet Movie Database , she is said to have been used in 76 different episodes.

From soap opera actress to leading actress in various US series

After she was still involved in the third episode of the second season of Shark in 2007, she was soon filming the FOX series MƎNTAL: in which she was included in 2009 , mainly in Colombia and partly in the United States, due to the low audience rating, short-lived FOX series alongside Chris Vance and Annabella Sciorra in all 13 episodes in the role of Dr. Chloë Artis saw. Before that she had in 2008 also made a guest appearance in the third season of Supernatural and was in the same year a commercial for Special K 2 O Protein Water from Kellogg's to be seen. In addition to her leading role in MƎNTAL: in 2009 she took on other roles in the short film Columbia Ave. or in an episode of the ABC series Castle around Nathan Fillion and Stana Katić , before she took on guest roles in various US television series, especially in 2010, but also took part in film productions. She had series appearances in, among others, one episode of Zack & Cody on board , CSI: NY , Miami Medical and Rizzoli & Isles , as well as a recurring role in two episodes of the short-lived FOX crime drama series Past Life , the was discontinued after only five of a total of seven planned episodes and completely withdrawn from broadcasting. She was also seen in the approximately one and a half hour feature film The Funeral Planner , directed by Lynn Isenberg and Chelsea Low in the supporting role of Sierra D'Asanti ; She also played the character Sandra in the short film Contract and appeared as Gina in Mark Piznarski's drama The Quickening .

In 2011, the nine-year marriage to Nathan Lavezoli broke up and the couple divorced in November of the same year. In professional terms, however, things went much better for the native Californian. In addition to the recurring character of Melitta in five of the six episodes of Spartacus: Gods of the Arena , the miniseries released between the first and second seasons of Spartacus , she was also seen this year in one of the leading roles in Against the Wall as Rachael Carpanis Internal Affairs Detective partner Lina Flores . It was also used in an episode of Bones in 2011 . After the passionate kickboxer, who in addition to her acting career also appears as a kickboxing trainer, only appeared in an episode of The Mentalist as Sharon Vasquez in 2012 , she concentrated more on her role as Detective Maria Baez , partner of Donnie Wahlberg and one of the main roles in the CBS series Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York . At the same time, she appeared at the beginning of Blue Bloods as the recurring character of Officer Riley Dunn in four episodes of the third season of the ABC series Body of Proof and also had one of the leading roles in The Casey Anthony case alongside Rob Lowe, with whom she has already stood in front of the camera several times. After she mainly concentrated on the work at Blue Bloods , further engagements in film and television were largely absent, only in 2014 she had an appearance in Brian Thompson's parody film The Extendables , in which she was seen as Maria in one of the leading roles.

Marisa Ramirez 'German-speaking voice actors

In the course of her career so far, Marisa Ramirez had numerous different voice actors in the various German-language dubbed versions of the films and series in which she participated. Isabelle Schmidt was one of the most frequent voice actors. He lent her the voice in Bones - The Bone Hunter (2011) and in Body of Proof (2013). In Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York (since 2013) she was voiced by Magdalena Turba . Other voice actors who, as far as is known, only appeared once as their German voice are Anna Carlsson in Supernatural (2008), Heide Domanowski in Castle (2009), Ilona Brokowski in CSI: NY (2010), Antje von der Ahe in Miami Medical (2010) or Maria Koschny in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2010). Furthermore was Kathrin Gaube her voice in the German-dubbed version of Peter Werner The case Casey Anthony from the year-2013.

Filmography

Film appearances (also short appearances)

Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

Appearances in music videos and television commercials

Nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marisa Maguire Ramirez in the California Birth Index , accessed March 9, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e Q&A Sessions: Marisa Ramirez (English), accessed on March 9, 2016
  3. ↑ It's no Deception: Ramirez joins Y & R's Jabot , accessed March 8, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Ramirez, Marisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramirez, Marisa Maguire (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH East Los Angeles , California , United States