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Elizabeth Rodriguez is a Actor American born on 27 december 1980 at New York City (USA)

Elizabeth Rodriguez

Elizabeth Rodriguez
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Nationality USA
Birth 27 december 1980 (43 years) at New York City (USA)

Elizabeth Rodriguez (born December 27, 1980) is an American actress. She received a Tony Award nomination, and won the Outer Critics Circle Award, as well as a Theatre World Award, for her performance in Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2011 play on Broadway, The Motherfucker with the Hat. Rodriguez is best known for her role as Aleida Diaz in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black (2013–present). In 2015, she starred as a series regular on first season of the AMC post-apocalyptic drama series, Fear the Walking Dead.

Biography

Jeunesse et formation

Ses parents sont portoricains mais elle est née et a été élevée à New York.

Diplômée du Lehman College, elle intègre le William Esper Studio à Manhattan, afin d'étudier la comédie pendant deux ans.


Carrière
Débuts et rôles secondaires
Parallèlement à ses études, Elizabeth Rodriguez décroche ses premiers contrats et elle fait ses débuts au cinéma, notamment avec le drame indépendant Fresh sorti en 1994 avec Samuel L. Jackson et Giancarlo Esposito et le film d'action à succès Desperado, sorti l'année suivante. Il s'agit du deuxième film de la trilogie El Mariachi de Robert Rodriguez, le premier étant El Mariachi et le troisième Il était une fois au Mexique... Desperado 2.

Côté télévision, elle apparaît dans de nombreuses séries télévisées telles que New York Undercover qui signe son premier rôle régulier mais aussi Oz, New York Police Blues, FX, effets spéciaux...

La décennie suivante, Rodriguez poursuit ses rôles mineurs et ses apparitions comme dans la série médicale populaire Urgences, dans laquelle elle interprète une infirmière pendant trois épisodes, ou encore Six Feet Under, The Shield, puis, elle tente de percer au cinéma, jouant essentiellement dans des longs métrages indépendants.

En 2001, elle participe au drame Blow de Ted Demme avec Johnny Depp et Penélope Cruz. En 2005, elle est à l'affiche de la comédie musicale Sueno avec Ana Claudia Talancón, Elizabeth Peña et John Leguizamo. Une production tièdement accueillie. Entre-temps, elle n'en oublie pas la télévision et participe au téléfilm de conclusion de la série Diagnostic : Meurtre avec Dick Van Dyke et Barry Van Dyke.

L'année suivante, Elizabeth Rodriguez est à l'affiche du film policier Miami Vice : Deux flics à Miami, le long métrage de Michael Mann qui est une adaptation cinématographique de la série télévisée Deux flics à Miami, qui lui permet de côtoyer les hauteurs du box-office et de donner la réplique à Jamie Foxx et Colin Farrell. Puis, elle joue le rôle de Carmen Morales dans le feuilleton télévisé américain La Force du destin (2008-2009), avant d'obtenir un rôle régulier dans la série policière Suspect numéro un New York (2011). Cette série est cependant annulée au bout d'une saison, faute d'audiences.

Avant cela, elle continue les rôles secondaires au cinéma jouant sous la direction de Philip Seymour Hoffman pour la comédie dramatique Rendez-vous l'été prochain avec Amy Ryan et John Ortiz; elle est dirigée par Tamar Simon Hoffs pour la série B, Étudiantes exemplaires aux côtés de Malcolm McDowell; et elle joue dans le drame sportif écrit et joué par 50 Cent, All Things Fall Apart.


Succès au théâtre, OITNB et rôles réguliers

En 2011, Elizabeth Rodriguez, en tant que membre du LAByrinth Theater Company de New York, remporte un Outer Critics Circle pour son rôle dans The Motherf*cker with the Hat de Stephen Adly Guirgis, joué à Broadway. La même année, elle est aussi en lice pour le Tony Award de la meilleure actrice dans une pièce.

En 2013, elle est proposée pour un prix Imagen Awards grâce à son interprétation dans la comédie dramatique Tio Papi. Mais cette année-là, elle décroche surtout le rôle d'Aleida Diaz dans Orange Is the New Black, la nouvelle série produite et diffusée par Netflix. C'est l'une des deux premières séries produites par Netflix avec House of Cards, elle rencontre un succès important, elle est l'une des séries les plus plébiscitées par le public et la critique de ces dernières années. Elle a, par exemple, remporté des prix lors de la cérémonie des Screen Actors Guild Awards et lors des Emmy Awards (l'équivalent des Oscars pour la télévision). La série est considérée comme un show peu conventionnel qui libère les clichés sur les femmes et l'univers carcéral.

L'année suivante, elle rejoint ainsi une autre série dramatique qui fonctionne, Power, dans laquelle elle incarne Paz Valdez, un personnage récurrent. Et en 2015, elle rejoint la distribution principale de la saison 1 de Fear the Walking Dead. C'est une série dérivée de l'univers de The Walking Dead.

En 2016, elle joue les guest-star dans la saison 4 de Devious Maids.

En 2017, elle rejoint la distribution de la deuxième et dernière saison de Chance, une série noire portée par Hugh Laurie et distribuée par la plateforme Hulu. La même année, elle remporte son troisième Screen Actors Guild Award de la meilleure distribution pour une série télévisée comique grâce à OITNB et elle joue dans le blockbuster Logan aux côtés d'Hugh Jackman.

En 2019, sort la septième et dernière saison d'Orange Is the New Black qui connaît un large succès.

Best films

Miami Vice (2006)
(Actress)

Usually with

50 Cent
50 Cent
(2 films)
John Ortiz
John Ortiz
(3 films)
Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Elizabeth Rodriguez (16 films)

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Actress

Skate Kitchen, 1h46
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Elizabeth Rodriguez, Taylor Gray, Taylor Gray, Jaden Smith, Darlene Violette, Hisham Tawfiq
Roles Renata
Rating67% 3.397453.397453.397453.397453.39745
A New-York, la vie de Camille, une adolescente solitaire et introvertie va radicalement changer en intégrant un groupe de jeunes filles skateuses appelé Skate Kitchen. Cette bande éprise de liberté et sa rencontre avec un jeune skateur énigmatique vont l’éloigner de sa mère avec qui elle s’entend de moins en moins.
Logan
Logan (2017)
, 2h17
Directed by James Mangold
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films set in the future, Superhero films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Children's films, Chase films
Actors Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Richard E. Grant
Roles Gabriela
Rating80% 4.0468554.0468554.0468554.0468554.046855
The film begins with Tyler (Patrick Probst) and little brother Logan (Leo Howard) at the movie theater watching a brand new action film, that Tyler thinks was amazing, while Logan thinks it was bad and had no content. Then Logan tells Tyler about his plans to make a movie. Tyler says that he can make a movie. Then, while looking for actors, and crew workers, he faces rejection from his peers at school and his careless parents at home. Then Logan turns to the one he can always count on- Tyler. But when Tyler gets mad at Logan because of a misunderstanding about losing his jacket for his concert, Tyler tells Logan that the movie was a stupid idea, and that it was so bad he couldn't even finish reading it. He tells Logan, "you're only doing this for the attention anyway. It's not worth it. You're never gonna finish it, Logan". Then, while the parents are out and Tyler is at his band concert, Logan does what Tyler never thought he would- he tries to hang himself. Tyler comes up after getting angry at his orchestra leader, he looks all over the house trying to find Logan- and when he does, he is hanging from a tree in the backyard. Logan lives but if Tyler was two minutes late, he would have been brain dead. Although Tyler tries to get through the tragedy with the help of his friends, Ben (Booboo Stewart) and Carlie (Nicole Cummins), he just cannot. At the turn of the unexpected tragedy, the brothers' relationship is altered forever and Tyler is challenged to do whatever it takes to see his little brother's project succeed, even if that means risking it all.
The Drop
The Drop (2014)
, 1h46
Directed by Michaël R. Roskam
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Gandolfini, John Ortiz, James Frecheville
Roles Detective Romsey
Rating69% 3.498493.498493.498493.498493.49849
Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) is a bartender at a neighborhood bar in Brooklyn called "Cousin Marv's". Marv (James Gandolfini) ceded ownership of the bar years earlier to Chechen mobsters and now operates it with Bob as a 'drop' for illegal takings. Marv berates Bob and some patrons for commemorating the 10th anniversary of the murder of a man named Richie Wheelan. Later at night, a neighbour, Nadia (Noomi Rapace), a local waitress, discovers Bob rescuing a battered pit bull pup abandoned in her garbage can. She assists Bob in caring for the dog. Bob leaves the dog in her care until he can decide whether to adopt him.
Side Effects, 1h46
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum, David Costabile, Vinessa Shaw
Roles Pharmacist
Rating70% 3.546183.546183.546183.546183.54618
Emily Taylor's (Rooney Mara) husband Martin (Channing Tatum) is released after serving a four-year prison sentence for insider trading. Shortly afterward, Emily drives her car into a concrete wall in an apparent suicide attempt. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law), her assigned psychiatrist, fears for her safety but agrees to her release from the hospital as long as she attends sessions with him on a regular basis.
All Things Fall Apart, 1h50
Directed by Mario Van Peebles
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors 50 Cent, Mario Van Peebles, Ray Liotta, Lynn Whitfield, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Ambyr Childers
Roles Mrs. Lopez
Rating54% 2.7048652.7048652.7048652.7048652.704865
L'histoire vraie d'un joueur de football américain atteint d'un cancer dans le médiastin supérieur.
All Things Fall Apart
Directed by Mario Van Peebles
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors 50 Cent, Ray Liotta, Mario Van Peebles, Lynn Whitfield, Ambyr Childers, Elizabeth Rodriguez
Roles Mrs. Lopez
Rating54% 2.7048652.7048652.7048652.7048652.704865
Deon is a football player who suffers a deadly disease. However, despite receiving love and praise for his entire life due to his athletic ability, he is still a good person who loves his family and is willing to share the glory on the football field. His mother Bee is incredibly proud, his younger brother Sean is understandably jealous, and Bee’s boyfriend/Deon’s surrogate father Eric sees the football star as a winning lottery ticket. Even though Deon is fighting cancer he still tries to finish what he started.
Jack Goes Boating, 1h31
Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Amy Ryan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tom McCarthy, Lola Glaudini
Roles Waldorf Event Assistant
Rating62% 3.1474753.1474753.1474753.1474753.147475
Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a shy limousine driver who lives with and works for his uncle. His best friend and co-worker Clyde (John Ortiz) and Clyde's wife Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega) set up a dinner date at their house for him to meet Lucy's new co-worker, Connie (Amy Ryan) who has some minor intimacy issues of her own. As Jack and Connie get to know each other, he sets his sights on learning to swim so he can take her boating when summer comes. With Clyde eager to help him learn, they begin swimming lessons. Jack decides that summer is too far away to wait for a date with Connie. He decides that a nice dinner would be a good place to start. When Connie says that no one has ever cooked a meal for her, Jack decides that he wants to be the chef and cook for her. This adds another set of lessons to be learned as Jack does not know how to cook. Clyde sets Jack up with a chef friend of Lucy's to learn the culinary art form. As Jack strives to perfect swimming and cooking, he begins to get a look behind the veil of the marriage of his friends, which is straining under the weight of mutual occasional infidelities. As Jack and Connie grow closer, the troubles of his friends' marriage become more apparent, and Jack grows in confidence and skill not just aquatically and in culinary arts, but in relating to Connie as well.
Miami Vice
Miami Vice (2006)
, 2h12
Directed by Michael Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Ciarán Hinds
Roles Det. Gina Calabrese
Rating60% 3.0493153.0493153.0493153.0493153.049315
While working an undercover prostitute sting operation in a nightclub to arrest a pimp named Neptune, Miami-Dade Police detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs receive a frantic phone call from their former informant Alonzo Stevens (John Hawkes). Stevens reveals that he's leaving town, and, believing his wife Leonetta to be in immediate danger, asks Rico to check on her. Crockett learns that Stevens was working as an informant for the FBI but has been compromised. Crockett and Tubbs quickly contact FBI Special Agent in Charge John Fujima (Ciarán Hinds) and warn him about Stevens' safety. Tracking down Stevens through a vehicle transponder and aerial surveillance, Crockett and Tubbs stop him along I-95. Stevens reveals that a Colombian cartel had become aware that Russian undercovers (now dead) were working with the FBI, and had threatened to murder Leonetta via a C-4 necklace bomb if he didn't confess. Rico, learning of Leonetta's death by telephone call, tells Alonzo that he doesn't have to go home. Hearing this, the grief-stricken Stevens commits suicide by walking in front of an oncoming semi truck.
Sueno
Sueno (2005)
, 1h48
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors John Leguizamo, Ana Claudia Talancón, Elizabeth Peña, Nestor Serrano, Hector Luis Bustamante, José María Yazpik
Roles Carmen
Rating52% 2.608042.608042.608042.608042.60804
Antonio rêve de devenir un célèbre musicien. Il décide pour cela de quitter le Mexique pour Los Angeles. Il y croise la route de Nina, une jeune étudiante, et de Mirabella, une ancienne chanteuse.
Blow
Blow (2001)
, 2h4
Directed by Ted Demme
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Films about drugs
Actors Johnny Depp, Jordi Mollá, Penélope Cruz, Jesse James, Ray Liotta, Paul Reubens
Roles Martha Oliveras
Rating74% 3.748943.748943.748943.748943.74894
The film opens to a young George (Jesse James) and his parents Fred (Ray Liotta) and Ermine (Rachel Griffiths) of Weymouth, Massachusetts. When George is ten years old, Fred files for bankruptcy and loses everything, but tries to make George realize that money is not important.
Return to Paradise, 1h51
Directed by Joseph Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Vera Farmiga, Joel de la Fuente
Roles Gaby
Rating68% 3.445093.445093.445093.445093.44509
Three friends, Lewis McBride (Joaquin Phoenix), Sheriff (Vince Vaughn) and Tony (David Conrad), are seen having a fun vacation in a Malaysian paradise. Their adventures include being almost run over by a car while riding a bicycle, and being pressured into buying some rhinoceros horn from Malaysian locals. The three men wind up at their beach front house on the ocean pondering their future in the island paradise.
I Think I Do, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Alexis Arquette, Lauren Vélez, Tuc Watkins, Guillermo Díaz, Maddie Corman, Marianne Hagan
Roles Celia
Rating65% 3.2943753.2943753.2943753.2943753.294375
The film follows the relationship between Bob (Alexis Arquette) and Brendan (Christian Maelen), roommates at George Washington University in Washington, DC, five years after Bob made his romantic feelings toward Brendan known. When the two reconnect at the wedding of college friends, Bob is in a serious relationship with a soap opera star Sterling Scott (Tuc Watkins) while Brendan is single and re-examining his own identity.
Desperado
Desperado (1995)
, 1h46
Directed by Robert Rodríguez
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Sports films, Martial arts films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Antonio Banderas, Joaquim de Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin, Quentin Tarantino
Roles Mariachi Fan
Rating70% 3.548593.548593.548593.548593.54859
At the Tarasco bar in Mexico, an American man tells the story of how he witnessed a massacre in another bar committed by a Mexican with a guitar case full of guns. The bar's patrons are uninterested until the American mentions the name "Bucho." Meanwhile, El Mariachi has a dream of his encounter with Moco that left his lover dead and his hand shot. He is awakened by the American, who tells him to continue his search for Bucho at the bar. El Mariachi travels to the town and meets a child to whom he gives some guitar playing tips. At the Tarasco bar, El Mariachi engages in a tense standoff with Bucho's goons before a massive gunfight erupts. He kills everyone in the bar, but is followed outside by a man named Tavo. On the street, Tavo shoots El Mariachi twice before being killed himself. El Mariachi is then sheltered in the local bookstore by Carolina, the owner. Bucho arrives at the bar to survey the carnage and hears the kid from earlier playing his guitar by the door. A paranoid Bucho orders his men to hunt down the man with a guitar case full of guns.
Dead Presidents, 1h59
Directed by Albert et Allen Hughes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Hip hop films, Political films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, N'Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodríguez, Rose Jackson
Roles Marisol
Rating68% 3.448593.448593.448593.448593.44859
In the spring of 1969, Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) is about to graduate from high school. Anthony is not going to college, and needing to get away from home to find himself, he enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after graduation. He is sent to Vietnam, leaving behind his middle-class family, a pregnant girlfriend (Rose Jackson), and small time crook Kirby (Keith David), who is like a second father.
Fresh
Fresh (1994)
, 1h54
Directed by Boaz Yakin, J. Miller Tobin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about children, Jeu, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Hip hop films, Films about chess, Gangster films
Actors Giancarlo Esposito, Sean Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, Jean-Claude La Marre, José Zúñiga
Roles Consuela
Rating74% 3.7465453.7465453.7465453.7465453.746545
12-year-old Michael a.k.a. "Fresh" stops at a latina woman's apartment to pick up dime bags of heroin before he goes to school. Fresh notices that she has given him the wrong amount and Fresh tries to warn her that his boss Esteban will be angry with the incorrect amount. He sees the track marks on her arm, indicating that she is a drug addict trying to swindle him out of his delivery. He leaves, disgusted.