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Rosie Pérez
Born	Rosa María Pérez
Other names	Rosie Pérez
Years active	1989 – present
Spouse	Seth Zvi Rosenfeld (divorced)

Rosa María "Rosie" Pérez (born September 6, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, dancer, choreographer and director. She is recognized for her nasal voice and thick Brooklyn accent.

Biography

Early life

Pérez was born and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick to Puerto Rican parents Lydia Perez (née Fontanez), a singer, and Ismael Serrano, a sailor employed in the merchant- marine. At the time of her birth, her mother was married to Ventura Perez, and had an affair with Serrano. She started her career in the late 1980s as a dancer on Soul Train and has choreographed music videos by Bobby Brown, Diana Ross, LL Cool J and The Boys. She was the choreographer for the dancing group, the Fly Girls who were featured on every performance of In Living Color, a 1990's television variety series........

Career

She was noticed in a dance club by Spike Lee in 1989, who hired her for her first major acting role in Do the Right Thing. She made her Broadway debut in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. She had her third major role in the hit comedy White Men Can't Jump co-starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. She also co-starred opposite Jeff Bridges in Peter Weir's Fearless (for which she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress). In 1997 she starred in Perdita Durango, a controversial film in which many scenes of excessive violence, sex and nudity were edited out of the version released in the United States, but remained intact in the version released throughout Latin America.

She is a Puerto Rican activist who fights for Puerto Rican rights from America. Her film Yo Soy Boricua! Pa' Que Tú Lo Sepas! (I'm Puerto Rican, Just So You Know!) is about this fight. She starred in and directed the Spanish AIDS PSA campaign "Join the Fight" for Cable Positive and Kismet Films. The campaign featured actor Wilmer Valderrama, BET's Julissa Bermudez, Telenovela actor Erick Elias, singer/actress Lorena Rojas, 2006-2007 Miss Universe Zuleyka Rivera, and actress Judy Marte. An English-language campaign was also directed by Liev Schreiber. She has more recently played corrupt female police officer Carol Brazier in the Judd Apatow-produced film Pineapple Express co-starring Seth Rogen and James Franco.

Personal life

She attended the Grover Cleveland High School in Queens, New York and a Community College in Los Angeles. She married filmmaker Seth Zvi Rosenfeld in 1999 but they were divorced in 2001.

She was arrested on January 6,2000 for disorderly conduct in Manhattan following a rally to protest US Navy bomb tests on Vieques, a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico. (see Navy-Vieques protests)

Filmography

Actress

Do the Right Thing (1989) .... Tina
Criminal Justice (1990) .... Denise Moore
Night on Earth (1991) .... Angela
White Men Can't Jump (1992) .... Gloria Clemente
Untamed Heart (1993) .... Cindy
Fearless (1993) .... Carla Rodrigo
It Could Happen to You (1994) .... Muriel Lang
Somebody to Love (1994) .... Mercedes
A Brother's Kiss (1997) .... Debbie
Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground (1997) .... Mystery Girl
Perdita Durango (1997) .... Perdita Durango
The 24 Hour Woman (1999) .... Grace Santos
The Road to El Dorado (2000) (voice) .... Chel
Human Nature (2001) .... Louise
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) .... Shirley Perr
King of the Jungle (2001) .... Joanne
Widows (2002) .... Linda
From the 104th Floor (2003) (voice) .... Narrator
Exactly (2004) ....Angela
Lackawanna Blues (2004) ....Bertha
Just Like the Son (2006) .... Mrs. Ponders
The Take (2008) ....Marina De La Pena
Pineapple Express (2008) .... Officer Carol Brazier
Lipstick Jungle (2008) ....Dahlia

Producer

Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground (1997)
The 24 Hour Woman (1999)

Choreographer

Do the Right Thing (1989)
In Living Color (1990-1992)

Director

Yo Soy Boricua! Pa' Que Tu Lo Sepas! (I'm Boricua, Just So You Know!) (2005)

References

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