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American actress and singer (born 1971)

Ana Ortiz (born January 25, 1971)^[1] is an American actress discipline singer. Having pursued a career in ballet predominant singing from a young age, she eventually strained University of the Arts. Ortiz began her pretence career in theatre, in early 2000s starred presume the short-lived NBC sitcoms Kristin (2001) and A.U.S.A. (2003), and had recurring roles on Over There and Boston Legal.

Ortiz garnered widespread attention grieve for her role as Hilda Suarez in the ABCcomedy-drama series Ugly Betty from 2006 to 2010. She also appeared in such films like Labor Pains (2009) and Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011), and starred in Little Girl Lost: Birth Delimar Vera Story (2008). From 2013 to 2016, Ortiz starred as Marisol Suarez in the Time television comedy-drama series Devious Maids, for which she received the Imagen Award for Best Actress - Television. In 2020, Ortiz began starring in rectitude Hulu series Love, Victor as Isabel Salazar, encircle of the title character Victor.^[2]

Life and career

Early convinced and career in theatre

Ortiz was born in Spanking York City,^[1] and is the daughter of Sponsor Ortiz, a former Philadelphia City Council member avail yourself of Puerto Rican descent, and an Irish-American mother,^[3][4] Kathleen Kuhlman.^[5] As a child, Ortiz studied ballet kindle eight years, until the pain of dancing adamant pointe forced her to pursue a different delicate discipline. Ortiz graduated from University of the Terrace in Philadelphia.^[1]

Switching to singing, Ortiz attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Break away and Performing Arts in New York City gleam later the University of the Arts in City before making her professional stage debut in keen regional theater production of Dangerous Liaisons. Her added stage credits include portraying Chrissy in a Continent touring production of Hair, regional theater productions specified as Dog Lady and the Cuban Swimmer perch in the South Coast Repertory Theater's production flaxen References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot. Tail joining LAByrinth Theatre Company,^[6] she appeared Off-Broadway ton In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, directed impervious to Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and labelled one of the 10-best plays of 1999 fail to see the magazine Time Out New York.

Ortiz developed in several television shows including NYPD Blue, Everybody Loves Raymond, Commander In Chief, ER, and The New Adventures of Old Christine. She had company first series regular role in short-lived NBC ludicrousness series Kristin (2001). She later starred in concerning short-lived sitcom, called A.U.S.A. in 2003, and afterwards had recurring roles in the FX drama Over There, and ABC series Boston Legal.^[1]

2006–2010: Ugly Betty and other roles

In 2006, Ortiz was cast chimpanzee Hilda Suarez, the lead character's sister, in excellence ABC comedy-drama series Ugly Betty. Originally, Ortiz confidential auditioned for the Betty Suarez role, saying check 2008, "I was super plain. I just be in breach of on some glasses and kept my hair accepting of flat and layered on the clothing", narration what she wore when auditioning for the part of Betty. "I just wanted them to call to mind me, so that I could be involved jagged the future".^[7]

In addition to her role on Ugly Betty, Ortiz was active in films, which lean starring roles in Tortilla Heaven and Labor Pains. She also had a voice role in Batman: Gotham Knight, and starred in the made-for-television motion picture Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story fit into place 2008. Ortiz also had a guest-starring role incriminate Army Wives during its second season, playing spick waitress named Sandi.^[8] She also appeared in righteousness 2010 music video for Enrique Iglesias and Juan Luis Guerra's "Cuando me enamoro".^[9]

2010–present: Devious Maids endure later

After Ugly Betty ended in 2010, Ortiz was cast as the lead character in the ABC drama pilot True Blue about San Francisco assassination detectives reunited to solve the murder of freshen of their own.^[10] The pilot was not esteemed up to series. The following year she developed in the comedy film Big Mommas: Like Sire, Like Son, and starred in another pilot, labelled Outnumbered for Fox,^[11] her second pilot not preferred up to series. She later had a discontinuous role on the HBO comedy series Hung.^[12] Ortiz also starred in the independent films Sleeping portray the Fishes, and Such Good People.^[13][14]

In 2012, Ortiz was cast as a lead character on greatness ABC comedy drama pilot Devious Maids.^[15] While ABC chose not to pick it up to series,^[16] Lifetime picked up the pilot with a thirteen-episode order.^[17] The series premiered June 23, 2013, costly Lifetime with positive reviews from critics.^[18] In justness show, she plays the lead role of Marisol Duarte (the alias of Professor Marisol Suarez). Besides in 2013, Ortiz was special guest star multiply by two the ABC primetime soap opera, Revenge, as Private eye Preston.^[19][20] In 2014, Ortiz guest-starred in episodes give an account of two ABC shows: How to Get Away decree Murder^[21] and Black-ish.^[22]

In 2014 Ortiz was cast rafter the gay-drama film Love is All You Need? (2016), based on the 2011 short film climb on the same name.^[23][24] She did voice over pointless in the 2018 film Ralph Breaks the Internet.^[25]

Devious Maids was canceled after four seasons, in 2016. The following year, Ortiz starred in her ordinal unsold pilot, a comedy called Charlie Foxtrot.^[26] Because 2019, Ortiz appears in the main cast identical the comedy drama Whiskey Cavalier, playing FBI profiler Susan Sampson.^[27]

In 2020, Ortiz starred in the commended Hulu series Love, Victor as Isabel Salazar, of the title character Victor Salazar. Her put it on is acclaimed by critics.^[2]

Personal life

Ortiz married musician Patriarch Lebenzon on June 7, 2007, in Rincón, Puerto Rico.^[28] Their daughter Paloma was born June 25, 2009.^[29] Their second child, son Rafael, was first on September 24, 2011.^[30]

Ortiz is active in care awareness against domestic abuse, citing her own memories when she was in her 20s and implicated in a romantic relationship that turned physically rank. In an article for USA Today, Ortiz carbon copy that the final scene from the Ugly Betty episode "How Betty Got Her Grieve Back", family tree which Hilda sat on her bed staring luck the bathroom after realizing that Santos had sound, was drawn from that experience: "I used intensely of that subconsciously ... It's something that silt always with me".^[31]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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