Valerie Cruz

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Valerie Cruz in September 2008

Valerie Cruz (born July 18, 1976 in Elizabeth , New Jersey ) is an American actress of Cuban descent. She gained notoriety especially since the early 2000s through her recurring roles in various US television series.

life and career

Valerie Cruz was born on July 18, 1976 to Cuban parents who emigrated to the United States in the 1960s, in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey. It was only towards the end of her high school that she discovered acting and began her professional training as an actress. After auditioning at several theater programs and schools, Cruz, who also lived in the states of Arizona and Iowa during her life, attended the College of Motion Picture Arts at Florida State University in Tallahassee , Florida from 1994 . After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater in 1997, she mainly worked as a stage actress or briefly at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and only began working in the film and television business in the new millennium. She had her first guest appearances in 2002 in one episode of the television series Strong Medicine: Two Doctors Like Fire and Ice , American Family and The Agency - In the crosshairs of the CIA With the role of psychologist Grace Santiago in Nip / Tuck - Beauty has its price Cruz took on a larger and recurring role for the first time and was seen in this from the second to the 13th episode of the 2003 season broadcast. In the German-language dubbed version of the series, Judith Brandt took over her German voice for the first time .

In 2004 she took on guest roles in each episode of Missing - Desperate Wanted , Crossing Jordan - Pathologist with Profile , and Las Vegas and was in the action thriller Final Call - When He Hangs Up , She Must Die by director David R. Ellis as criminal Dana Bayback to see. This time Claudia Urbschat-Mingues appeared as the German-language dubbing voice of her character . In 2005, she made guest appearances on LAX , Grey's Anatomy and Inconceivable , followed by appearing as recurring character Colonel Sabrina Lopez in two episodes of Shaun Cassidy's short-lived sci-fi series Invasion the following year, 2006. After being in LA Blues of 2007 Ian Gurvitz took on a rather insignificant role as a police officer, from this year she was seen in several productions in a main cast. In Kevin Williamson's short-lived teen drama Hidden Palms, she played the character Maria Nolan in five of the only eight episodes and in the same year she starred in all twelve episodes of the novel The Dresden Files in the leading role of Lt. See Connie Murphy . From 2008 mainly film productions in which Valerie Cruz participated were published; including various independent films. She played the role of Maggie Kuerner in David Jackson's film Street Warrior , produced for Spike TV , a film about an Iraq veteran (played by Max Martini ) fighting in an illegal fight club . However, this year she sat for the first time as Sylvia Prado , the wife of Miguel Prado (played by Jimmy Smits ) in the crime and drama series Dexter , in which she was seen in a total of eleven episodes until 2013. Her German dubbing voice was again Judith Brandt, the celebratory voice of actresses such as Sophie Marceau , Monica Bellucci , Toni Collette etc.

She was also seen as Allison in Dave Payne's horror film No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker that year, followed by guest appearances on one episode each of Eleventh Hour and Dollhouse in 2009. She was also in that year Starring roles in the films La Linea - The Line with Ray Liotta and Andy García and The Devil's Tomb with Cuba Gooding junior , Taryn Manning and Ron Perlman . Jason Connery , son of Sean Connery and Diane Cilento , appeared as a director in the latter film . Also in 2009 she was brought into the extended cast of the HBO series True Blood as the vampire Isabel (Beaumont) . In this role she appeared in five consecutive episodes of the second season, but then left the series. While her in German Synchro of The Devil's Tomb yet Kordula Leiße lent his voice joined True Blood already Marina Krogull than their German voice in appearance. After she was only seen in one episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Criminal Minds in 2010, she returned to film and television engagements in 2011. Her character was first voiced in Criminal Minds by Gundi Eberhard . In 2011 she was Dr. Zita Alareina "Zee" Toledo Alvarez , one of the main characters in the short-lived and limited to 13 episodes ABC television series Off the Map of Shonda Rhimes seen in all 13 episodes. She also made a guest appearance in an episode of The Glades in 2011 and took on a recurring role for four episodes in the Syfy Sci-Fi series Alphas . While Judith Brandt was her German voice again in The Glades , Alexandra Wilcke appeared for the first time in Alphas as the German voice of Valerie Cruz.

In 2012 she starred in The Secret Lives of Wives for the first time in three years in a feature film and this year she also made short appearances in the series Grimm , Scandal and Dr. Dani Santino - Game of Life , in the latter series she even mimed a recurring character in two different episodes. Here Uschi Hugo was her German voice for the first time . Also in 2012, Cruz was brought into the series by the makers of Homeland as Major Joy Mendez . After appearing in an episode of Navy CIS in 2013, when Judith Brand again acted as the German voice, in the following year she appeared as forensic doctor Teresa Corazón in an episode of the Amazon Studios series Bosch . In 2011 she shot The Loft , a remake of the 2008 Belgian film entitled Loft ; the film by Erik Van Looy , who was also the director of the 2008 film, was finally released in 2014. Valerie Cruz played Barbara Stevens ; this time she received the German voice from Alexandra Wilcke, who already gave her the voice at Alphas . In 2014, the Cuban-born actress was once again brought in as one of the main characters in his new series The Following by series creator Kevin Williamson, with whom she had worked seven years earlier on Hidden Palms . Here she played special agent Gina Mendez , who leads the investigation into serial killer Joe Carroll ( James Purefoy ), in a total of 15 episodes until the series ended in 2015 . For the first time Ranja Bonalana appeared as her German dubbing voice.

After she also participated in an episode of the ABC series Quantico in 2015 , there are currently (as of January 2016) two productions in which Cruz is involved as an actress and the two are to be released in 2016. While James Lapine custody still in post-production is, the work on were My First Miracle of Rudy Luna already been completed.

The Latina has been nominated for television awards several times in the course of her career to date. In 2008 she was nominated for an ALMA Award in the category "Best Actress in a TV Series - Drama" for her engagement in The Dresden Files . She was also nominated together with the ensemble of the series at the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009 for a Screen Actors Guild Award in the category " Best Acting Company in a TV Series - Drama ".

At Christmas 2010, Cruz, who was briefly in a relationship with musician Robbie Williams in 2004 , got engaged and still talked about her baby wish, but there was never a wedding. In early 2014 she was single in New York City .

Filmography

Film appearances (also short appearances)

Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

Nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VALERIE CRUZ ON HER "TRUE BLOOD" CHARACTER: "I MODELED HER ACCENT AFTER PENÉLOPE CRUZ" , accessed on January 6, 2016
  2. ↑ Senior year according to film.fsu.edu
  3. ↑ Valerie Cruz on Playing True Blood's Vampire Isabel , accessed January 6, 2016
  4. ↑ 'Homeland' adds 'True Blood' actress Valerie Cruz , accessed January 6, 2016
  5. ↑ a b 2008 NCLR ALMA AWARDS® NOMINEES (English), accessed on January 6, 2016
  6. ↑ a b NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 15TH ANNUAL SAG AWARDS® , accessed on January 6, 2016
  7. ↑ Off the Map's Valerie Cruz Is Engaged , accessed January 6, 2016
  8. ↑ Robbie Williams romancing Valerie Cruz ( Memento of 29 September 2004 at the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on January 6, 2016
  9. ↑ Robbie sees a telly shrink , accessed January 6, 2016
  10. ↑ a b The Following's Hot New FBI Agent Valerie Cruz: 5 Things to Know , accessed January 6, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Cruz, Valerie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Elizabeth , New Jersey , United States