Gina Rodriguez
GINA RODRIGUEZ received a 2011 Imagen Award “Best Supporting Actress nomination for her breakout performance in Lions Gate Films feature, GO FOR IT (also official Selections of The Boston Latino Int’l Film Festival, The New York Latino Int’l Film Festival and The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (where it received an Honorable Mention).
Chicago raised, Rodriguez is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with 4 years of theatre training at both the Atlantic Theatre Company and Experimental Theatre Wing, working with both David Mamet and William H. Macy, and Experimental Theatre Wing, under Rosemary Quinn.
Her television credits include, guest stars on ABC’s HAPPY ENDINGS, Fox/WBTV’s JOHNNY ZERO, NBC’s LAW & ORDER, ABC Family’s 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, CBS/Bruckheimer’s ELEVENTH HOUR, recurring on Lifetime’s ARMY WIVES, and co-starring on MTV’s made for television features MY SUPER PSYCHO SWEET 16 (parts 1 and 2). Other films credits include: OUR FAMILY WEDDING opposite America Ferrera, independent TINY DANCER directed by Eva Husson, OSVALDOS (short film) directed by Randy Wilkins which screened in festivals for ABFF, NY HBO Latino Film Fest, Chicago International Film Fest, naming Gina winner of “Best Actor” award at the First Run Film Festival in NY and Osvaldos was named one of the Five Best Shorts (which aired on HBO in Feb 2010).
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