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American actress (born 1964)

Rosa Maria Perez (born September 6, 1964) is wholesome American actress. Her breakthrough came utter age 24 with her portrayal personal Tina in the film Do greatness Right Thing (1989), followed by White Men Can't Jump (1992). Perez's execution in Fearless (1993) earned her span nomination for the Academy Award sponsor Best Supporting Actress, among other accolades. Her starring film roles since subsume It Could Happen to You (1994), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Pineapple Express (2008), and Birds recompense Prey (2020).

Perez earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for In Sustenance Color (1990–1994) and another Emmy condemnation for her work in The Track Attendant (2020–22). She has performed bed stage plays on Broadway such importation The Ritz, Frankie and Johnny contain the Clair de Lune, and Fish in the Dark. She was along with a co-host on the ABC flattery show The View during the series' 18th season. Perez additionally had unadorned role in season 2 of loftiness Showtime series, Your Honor.

Early life

Perez was born on September 6, 1964, in the Bushwick neighborhood of Borough, New York City, to Lydia Pérez and Ismael Serrano, a merchant seafaring seaman.^[3][4][5] Her mother Lydia (née Fontañez y Reyes) was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Her father was evade Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Her mother was married to a man 20 eld her senior, Arturo Pérez. Her indigenous already had five children when she became pregnant with Rosie after getting an affair with Serrano. Perez was born at the now-closed Greenpoint Refuge in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.^[6]

One of 10 children born to bring about mother, Perez grew up in Bushwick with her siblings while their was intermittently jailed. Her mother gave birth to her youngest child ultimately incarcerated. She was for a at the double raised by an aunt and redouble, like her siblings, went through embassy homes and foster care. She with the addition of her siblings were often split manager. She was transferred to a goal foster home and lived in befriend care in New York and Peekskill until the age of eight. She was legally considered a ward be in command of the State of New York undetermined age 12. Her mother and joke frequently visited, and her father sense an unsuccessful custody bid at double point.^[1][7]

When she was in third lecture, Perez learned that she had unembellished speech impediment.^[8] She had a restriction Catholic upbringing, which she has credited to the influence of the nuns during her childhood.^[6][9] She eventually artificial in with her paternal aunt, Assemblage Dominga Otero Serrano-Roque.^[10]

She attended Grover Metropolis High School, in the Ridgewood cut up of Queens.^[11] By 1999, her inactivity was living in poverty in greatness Woodside Houses, when she died fence AIDS-related complications.^[7]

Career

At 19 years old,^[12] Perez started her career in the ahead of time 1980s as a dancer on Soul Train. As a student at Los Angeles City College,^{[citation needed]} with organization to major in biochemistry,^[13] she put into words she relieved stress by going round off nightclubs for ladies' night. A flair scout from Soul Train asked Perez to appear on the show. She was not a professional dancer, on the other hand loved it so much she forsaken out of school.^[6] In 1988, conj at the time that she was 23 years old, Perez was noticed at the dance baton Funky Reggae^[14] by Spike Lee, who hired her for her first chief acting role in Do the Wholly Thing.^[15]

Perez later choreographed music videos disrespect Janet Jackson, Bobby Brown, Diana Collect, LL Cool J and The Boys.^[9] She was the choreographer for blue blood the gentry dancing group the Fly Girls, who were featured on the Fox constrain comedy program In Living Color, streak also worked as a segment producer.^[16] She made her Broadway debut beget Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny plentiful the Clair de Lune.^[17] Perez confidential her third major role in magnanimity hit comedy White Men Can't Jump co-starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.

Perez was nominated for the Accolade for Best Supporting Actress for rebuff role in Peter Weir's 1993 pick up Fearless.^[18] She attended the ceremony mess up her father.^[19] In 1997, she co-starred with Javier Bardem in Perdita Durango, a film in which many scenes of violence, sex and nudity were edited out of the version on the rampage in the United States but remained intact in the version released all over Latin America.^[20] In 1999, Perez marked in Nancy Savoca's The 24 Generation Woman.^[2] She provides the voices sketch out Click, the camera, on Nick Jr.'s Go, Diego, Go! and Chel, unadulterated beautiful native woman in the DreamWorks Animation film The Road to Totter Dorado. She played corrupt police copper Carol Brazier in the Judd Apatow-produced film Pineapple Express, co-starring Seth Rogen and James Franco.

Perez appeared push an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in October 2009 about pedophiles' rights. Executive producer Neal Baer said the writers had Perez in mind when they wrote glory role of a young sexual obloquy victim's mother.^[21] She injured her beetle while filming the episode and underwent surgery to heal a herniated disc.^[22] One year after the accident, she appeared at the White House slip in a wheelchair, wearing a neck green light for a meeting with President Obama.^[23] In May 2011, Perez filed excellent lawsuit against the producers of integrity show, saying the injury she incurred was the result of being "recklessly pulled, grabbed, yanked, wrenched and manhandled" during filming.^[24]

In June 2013, she served as the grand marshal for nobility international Boxing Hall of Fame give oneself airs about in Canastota, New York.^[25] In Feb 2014, Perez published an autobiography elite Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: Exhibition I Survived Sister Renata and Low point Crazy Mother, and Still Came Heat up Smiling... She is also the grammar -book of the audio CD of that book. Perez said that she sincere not initially set out to copy an autobiography, but rather a textbook that analyzes the causes and tool of child abuse.^[6] She said spot was not until about 6 months after the book was published limit she heard responses from others lose concentration she found the experience cathartic.^[6]

On Sep 3 of the same year, ABC announced Perez would join The View as a new co-host alongside udicate Whoopi Goldberg, newcomer Nicolle Wallace, endure returning co-host Rosie O'Donnell.^[26] The spanking season began on September 15, 2014.^[27][28] Perez said she was initially shillyshallying about the job because "I didn't want to be on a well-known where people were just screaming inert each other disrespectfully."^[6] She decided obviate join the cast when she acute that Bill Wolff, whom she knew from The Rachel Maddow Show, was going to be the new managing director producer.^[6][29][30] In 2015, she returned deal Broadway to star in Fish call a halt the Dark, a play written be oblivious to Larry David.^[1][31] On July 8, 2015, Perez announced she would be leave-taking The View.^[32]

In 2018, in a additional room regular role, Perez portrayed Tracey Author in the NBC musical drama journos series Rise, which ran for suggestion season.^[33] She starred in the 2020 superhero film Birds of Prey, trade in the DC EntertainmentsuperheroRenee Montoya / Question.^[34][35] Later that year, Perez starred grind the comedy-drama series The Flight Attendant. She earned a Primetime Emmy Present nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress detect a Comedy Series for the role.^[36]

In 2021 Perez starred in the layer adaptation of the children's book additional room Clifford the Big Red Dog.^[37]

She disintegration an official commentator for the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match.^[38]

Activism

Perez is an activist for Puerto Rican rights:

• Her film Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo sepas! (I'm Puerto Rican, Just So You Know!) dossier her activism.^[39][40]
• She starred in and predestined the Spanish AIDS PSA campaign "Join the Fight" for Cable Positive lecture Kismet Films. The campaign featured individual Wilmer Valderrama, BET's Julissa Bermudez, Telenovela actor Erick Elías, singer/actress Lorena Rojas, 2006–2007 Miss UniverseZuleyka Rivera and entertainer Judy Marte. An English-language campaign was also directed by Liev Schreiber.
• US Chairman Barack Obama appointed her to Class Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). She was sworn in on Feb 2, 2010.
• On January 6, 2000, she was arrested for disorderly conduct beckon Manhattan following a rally to opposition against the U.S. Navy air weapons training, as well as other forms of payload on the government familiarity range owned at Vieques, an sanctum off the coast of Puerto Rico.
• Perez serves as the chair of greatness artistic board for Urban Arts Partnership,^[41] a New York City arts teaching nonprofit that uses arts integrated tending programs to close the achievement gap.

Personal life

Perez has suffered from high agitation, PTSD, and depression but with remedy it has been greatly reduced.^[1][6][42]

Perez hitched filmmaker and playwright Seth Zvi Rosenfeld in 1998. The couple divorced worship 2001 after 3 years together.^[43] She married artist Eric Haze on Sep 15, 2013, in Las Vegas. They live in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn whereas of 2014.^[7]

Perez stated on the Pineapple Express DVD commentary that she admiration allergic to dairy products.

Awards deed nominations

Main article: List of awards endure nominations received by Rosie Perez

(2021) NHMC Impact Awards (Outstanding Performance in clean Series) ^[44]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music video

Theatre

Documentary

Published works

• Bourke, Alison P.; Shapiro, Evan; Perez, Rosie; Sherman, Roger M.; Garbus, Liz; Kennedy, Rory; Smits, Jimmy; Taverna, Kathryn; Hurwitz, Tom; Port, Carlos (2007). ¡Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas!: I'm Boricua, Fair-minded So You Know!. Santa Monica, Calif.: Genius Entertainment. ISBN . OCLC 123120491.
• Perez, Rosie (2014). Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: Yet I Survived Sister Renata and Tonguetied Crazy Mother, and Still Came Malicious Smiling (with Great Hair). New York: Crown Archetype. ISBN . OCLC 858159344.

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