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Wanda De Jesus is a Actor American born on 26 august 1958 at Manhattan (USA)

Wanda De Jesus

Wanda De Jesus
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Nationality USA
Birth 26 august 1958 (65 years) at Manhattan (USA)

Wanda De Jesus (born August 26, 1958) is an American actress. She is most notably recognized for her role as the fourth actress to portray Santana Andrade in NBC's soap opera Santa Barbara. Aside from her work on soap operas, De Jesus appeared in several TV shows in a guest starring role, and she had a recurring role on the CBS crime series CSI: Miami as MDPD Detective Adelle Sevilla. On the week of June 14, 2010, she made her debut on All My Children as Iris Blanco, the mayor of Pine Valley. In 2010, De Jesus was cast as the head of the police squad on Law & Order: Los Angeles, but the role – which had already been changed significantly before De Jesus joined – was changed again and reshot with a different actress after two episodes had been filmed.

Biography

D'origine hispanique, Wanda De Jesús commence sa carrière sur les planches. Elle s'est ainsi produite au Mark Taper Forum de Los Angeles, à l'Ahmanson Theatre, au Village Performing Theatre de New York, au New York Shakespeare Festival et à Broadway dans Cuba and His Teddy Bear, dont elle partageait l'affiche avec Robert De Niro.

Avant d'apparaître sur le grand écran, elle a d'abord participé à des séries télévisées comme Pursuit of Happiness, Mariah ou encore Another World. Elle atterrit ensuite dans le téléfilm Lucky/Chances, avant d'obtenir un petit rôle récurrent dans la série Santa Barbara.

Au cinéma, c'est dans le polar de Richard Benjamin Deux flics à Downtown qu'elle débute, aux côtés d'Anthony Edwards et de Forest Whitaker, juste avant d'apparaître dans la suite des aventures de RoboCop 2, en 1990. Mais les propositions de films se font malgré tout encore rares, et c'est à la télé que Wanda De Jesús continue sa carrière, en participant entre autres au téléfilm Fatal Friendship. En 1994, elle revient sur grand écran avec The glass shield de Charles Burnett, thriller sur fond de tensions raciales au cœur même de la police, puis l'année suivante dans la petite comédie Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys. Elle continue de tourner en guest star dans des séries aussi diverses que La Loi de Los Angeles, Histoires de l'autre monde, Matlock, SeaQuest, police des mers, Babylon 5, Les Anges du bonheur, Diagnostic : Meurtre, Nash Bridges, New York Police Blues, ou encore Profiler. En 1997, c'est dans le téléfilm Gold Coast qu'on peut la voir, puis dans des rôles plus ou moins importants sur grand écran. Ainsi elle participe au film de Michael Mann Révélations, où Russell Crowe endosse le rôle de Jeffrey Wigand, ex-cadre de l'industrie du tabac qui part en guerre contre celle-ci, puis dans Personne n'est parfait(e) de Joel Schumacher où Robert De Niro, en flic ultra-conservateur, se voit dans l'obligation de prendre des leçons de chant auprès d'une drag-queen voisine incarnée par Philip Seymour Hoffman. Que ce soit dans Ghosts of Mars de John Carpenter ou dans Once in the Life de et avec Laurence Fishburne, Wanda De Jesús peine à franchir la barre des quinze premiers noms au générique, alors que Clint Eastwood lui fait une proposition : tenir le premier rôle féminin de son dernier thriller, Créance de sang, où elle incarne la sœur d'une femme assassinée, dont le cœur a été transplanté dans la poitrine d'un agent du FBI en retraite, et à qui elle demande d'enquêter sur son assassinat.

Usually with

Franc. Reyes
Franc. Reyes
(2 films)
Phil Tippett
Phil Tippett
(2 films)
Rob Bottin
Rob Bottin
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Wanda De Jesus (14 films)

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Actress

Water & Power, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Enrique Murciano, Nicholas Gonzalez, Clancy Brown, Emilio Rivera, Robert Beltran, Wanda De Jesus
Roles Officer Siler
Rating44% 2.2193652.2193652.2193652.2193652.219365
Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the Eastside streets of Los Angeles rise through the city's political and police ranks to become players in a complex and dangerous web of the powerful and corrupt of Los Angeles.
The Ministers, 1h29
Directed by Franc. Reyes
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Documentary, Crime
Actors John Leguizamo, Florencia Lozano, Wanda De Jesus, Manny Perez, Diane Venora, Harvey Keitel
Roles Captain Diaz
Rating44% 2.211392.211392.211392.211392.21139
Thirteen years after her father was slain and the only evidence left at the crime scene was a pamphlet for a secret shrouded religious order known as “The Ministers”, a New York City homicide detective sets out to discover the truth behind her father’s gruesome death, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Illegal Tender
Directed by Franc. Reyes
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Rick Gonzalez, Wanda De Jesus, Dania Ramírez, Delilah Cotto, Manny Perez, Zulay Henao
Roles Millie DeLeon
Rating54% 2.708022.708022.708022.708022.70802
Bronx, New York, 1985, where Millie and Wilson De Leon are expecting their first child. Wilson is a drug dealer working for Javier Cordero. One night, Millie shows Wilson that she has laundered his illegal drug earnings and made high quality investments, eliminating the need for him to continue his life of crime. Wilson goes to a meeting with Javier, who has him killed at the same time that Wilson Jr. is born.
Blood Work
Blood Work (2002)
, 1h46
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jeff Daniels, Clint Eastwood, Wanda De Jesus, Paul Rodriguez, Dylan Walsh, Anjelica Huston
Roles Graciella Rivers
Rating63% 3.1984053.1984053.1984053.1984053.198405
During a homicide investigation, FBI agent Terry McCaleb goes outside to address the media when he spots the killer in the crowd. But the chase ends after McCaleb suffers a heart attack and only manages to wound the killer.
Ghosts of Mars, 1h38
Directed by John Carpenter
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Ghost films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall, Joanna Cassidy
Roles Akooshay
Rating49% 2.452152.452152.452152.452152.45215
Set in the second half of the 22nd century, Mars has been 84% terraformed, allowing humans to walk on the surface without pressure suits. Martian society has become matriarchal, with women in most positions of authority. The story concerns police officer Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge), second in command of a team alongside Sergeant Jericho (Jason Statham) sent to a remote mining outpost to transport prisoner Desolation Williams (Ice Cube). Arriving at the remote mining town, Ballard finds all of the people missing. She learns that they had discovered an underground doorway created by an ancient Martian civilization. When the door was opened it released disembodied spirits or "ghosts", which took possession of the miners.
Once in the Life
Directed by Laurence Fishburne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Films based on plays, Heist films
Actors Titus Welliver, Eamonn Walker, Gregory Hines, Michael Paul Chan, Laurence Fishburne, Annabella Sciorra
Roles Jackie
Rating52% 2.606522.606522.606522.606522.60652
Once in the life of drug dealing and organized crime, can anyone get out? During a brief jail stay, two half-brothers, who have rarely seen each other while growing up, connect. One of them, called 20/20 Mike because he can sense people nearby, concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal drugs from young couriers. The heist goes awry when Billy, the junkie brother, shoots the victims of the theft. The brothers hole up in an abandoned building, and 20/20 Mike seeks help from an old cellmate, Tony, whom he thinks is out of the life. It turns out that they have stolen Tony's dope, and Tony's boss wants the two thieves dead.
The Insider, 2h37
Directed by Michael Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Historical, Politic
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about drugs, Films about television, Political films
Actors Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Renee Olstead, Roger Bart
Roles Geologist / FBI Woman
Rating77% 3.8984953.8984953.8984953.8984953.898495
During a prologue that is not directly related to the main plot, CBS producer Lowell Bergman (Pacino) convinces the founder of Hezbollah, Sheikh Fadlallah, to grant an interview to Mike Wallace (Plummer) for 60 Minutes. While preparing for the interview, both Wallace and Bergman firmly stand their ground against the Sheikh's armed and hostile bodyguards' attempted intimidation and disruption.
Flawless
Flawless (1999)
, 1h52
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Chris Bauer, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Skipp Sudduth, Daphne Rubin-Vega
Roles Karen
Rating63% 3.1983153.1983153.1983153.1983153.198315
Walter Koontz (Robert De Niro) is a highly decorated "local hero" officer of the New York police department who lives in a downtown apartment complex. Despite his locale and rampant run of drag queens in his building, he tends to keep to himself and still lives a life involved with lovely women, dancing and dining. One night, he hears gunshots upstairs, and while ascending to help suffers a stroke. He awakens with the right side of his body paralyzed resulting in poor speech and posture, and giving him an unrecoverable limp that requires him to use a cane to get around.
Alien Resurrection, 1h49
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott
Roles (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.099143.099143.099143.099143.09914
Two hundred years after the events of Alien 3, military scientists on the outer space vessel USM Auriga create a clone of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) using DNA from blood samples taken before her death. They extract the embryo of an Alien queen that had been growing inside her at the time of her death, raise it, and collect its eggs for further use. The Ripley clone is kept alive for further study. As a result of her DNA being mixed with the Alien's DNA during the cloning process, she develops enhanced strength and reflexes, has acidic blood and a psychic link with the Aliens.
The Glass Shield, 1h49
Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Ice Cube, Michael Boatman, Elliott Gould, Ice-T, Lori Petty, Michael Ironside
Roles Carmen Munoz
Rating60% 3.0453.0453.0453.0453.045
Deputy John Johnson (J.J.) (Michael Boatman) is a rookie in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and the first black deputy at the station to which he is assigned. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new deputy (Lori Petty), the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white-male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods (Ice Cube), who he helped to arrest, he faces difficult
RoboCop 2
RoboCop 2 (1990)
, 1h57
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films set in the future, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Anticipation, Robot films
Actors Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan, Gabriel Damon
Roles Estevez
Rating58% 2.9017652.9017652.9017652.9017652.901765
In the year after the success of the RoboCop program and Jones's death, Omni Consumer Products (OCP) has created a new plan to have Detroit default on its debt so that OCP can foreclose on the entire city, take over its government, and replace the old neighborhoods with Delta City, a new planned city center independent of the United States government, enabling them to effectively have an entire city to be controlled by OCP.
Downtown
Downtown (1990)
, 1h36
Directed by Richard Benjamin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Joe Pantoliano, Penelope Ann Miller, David Clennon, Art Evans
Roles Luisa Diaz
Rating57% 2.8512152.8512152.8512152.8512152.851215
Police Officer Alex Kearney (Edwards) is a patrolman in Bryn Mawr, a rich plush suburb of Philadelphia until he stops an important businessman and his story of the incident is not believed. He is sent to work Downtown, the most dangerous, crime filled precinct in the city. Everyone there is sure that this 'by the book' suburb pampered cop is going to get himself and whoever is assigned as his partner, killed. Sergeant Dennis Curren (Whitaker) draws the unfortunate 'babysitting' assignment but when Alex's best friend is killed investigating a stolen car, Alex throws the book out the window tracking down the killer.
RoboCop
RoboCop (1987)
, 1h42
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction, Action, Crime
Themes Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films set in the future, Superhero films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Anticipation, Robot films
Actors Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Peter MacNicol, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith
Roles Estevez (uncredited)
Rating75% 3.797423.797423.797423.797423.79742
In a dystopian near-future, Detroit, which is now bankrupt and overrun with crime, gives Omni Consumer Products (OCP) control of its struggling police force. The company plans to replace the poor, run-down sections of Old Detroit with the high-end "Delta City," but must first address the city's high crime rate. As an alternative to existing law enforcement, OCP senior president Dick Jones (Ronny Cox) offers the prototype ED-209 enforcement droid, but it accidentally kills a board member during a demonstration. The OCP chairman, nicknamed "The Old Man" (Dan O'Herlihy), decides instead to back Jones' young rival, Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer), and his experimental cyborg police officer program, "RoboCop.