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Majandra Delfino (born Maria Alejandra
Delfino on February 20, 1981 in Caracas, Venezuela), is
an actress who is best known for her role as Maria
DeLuca in the cult television series Roswell.
Biography:Delfino was nicknamed
"Majandra" by her elder sister, Marieh, who is
also an actress. Marieh couldn't pronounce her real
name, and the nickname stuck.She is half-Cuban and
half-Venezuelan.
Born in Venezuela and raised in Miami, actress Majandra
Delfino's career was only briefly derailed by the
initial disapproval of her non-showbiz parents and the
reluctance of casting agents to see past her somewhat
exotic looks.
Already an accomplished performer by age
12, counting among her credits an opening slot at a Bee
Gees concert, singing along with Samantha Gibb (daughter
of the famed family trio's Maurice Gibb) as part of the
pop quartet China Doll (and later forming a duo),
Delfino was also featured in the Miami Ballet's
production of "The Nutcracker", as well as
several community theater musicals.
She landed her first feature role in
1997, playing the elder daughter of a marine biologist
(Kathleen Quinlan) in the children's feature "Zeus
and Roxanne". Delfino quickly followed up with a
regular role on the short-lived television sitcom
"The Tony Danza Show" (1997). Here, the
factors that helped her to land the role included both
her developing acting skills and the uncommon looks that
caused commercial casting agents to pass her by, as the
attractive actress of Italian and American parentage's
piercing eyes, full lips and blonde-streaked hair
remarkably resembled Danza's real-life daughter.
On the NBC series, Delfino portrayed
Tina, the savvy, street-smart 16-year-old daughter of
Danza's divorced sportswriter. While this role could
have afforded the actress some enviable exposure, the
disappointing five-episode run gave her little time to
develop her character or build much audience
recognition.
Delfino next took a recurring role on the similarly
short-lived sitcom "Katie Joplin", aired on
The WB in 1999. The network would host her breakthrough
role later that year, portraying a straight-talking,
levelheaded waitress and high school student on the
sci-fi teen drama "Roswell".
As Maria, Delfino played one of the more
realistic and relatable characters on the program, at
once skeptical of and alarmed by the admission of her
best friend best friend Liz (Shiri Appleby) that the
childhood friend who miraculously healed her gunshot
wound is one of a trio of aliens who survived a 1947 UFO
crash, living among the residents of Roswell, New Mexico
in human form.
The actress returned to the big screen
with a role as Natalie, the sensitive and awkward star
of the independent coming-of-age feature "The
Secret Life of Girls", a 1999 comedy-drama
co-starring Linda Hamilton and Eugene Levy as Natalie's
parents, a dissatisfied hippie and a college professor
dallying with students, respectively.
That same year, Delfino also appeared in
the festival screened drama "The Learning
Curve" before landing a supporting role alongside
Tiffani Thiessen and Coolio in Rhino Films entry into
the horror spoof genre, "Shriek If You Know What I
Did Last Friday the 13th" (USA Network, 2000) and a
cameo in the acclaimed "Traffic" (also 2000).
Delfino was always more of a musician than an actress,
and since the termination of Roswell back in 2002, she
has refocused herself on her music, releasing the
critically acclaimed 2001 album The Sicks on her own
label, Dripfeed, without radio or television airplay.
She has also received attention in France, through her
duet with French chanteuse (singer) RoBERT, titled
"Le Prince Bleu D'Arthelius" in which she
sings both in English and French.
Tarte was released April 23, 2007 through her official
website. It contains 11 tracks and was released through
her own record company Red velvet Cake Records. There
are samples of three songs on her official website and
her MySpace.
She starred in Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday
the Thirteenth, which was made before Scary Movie but
did not receive major cinematic release. She has also
been in Reeseville, Celeste in the City, The Tony Danza
Show, and R.S.V.P., with Jason Mewes (of Dogma fame) and
Glenn Quinn (of Angel). Her latest film State's Evidence
covers the controversial topic of violence in schools.
Her masterful performance of Trudi was her darkest
dramatic role to date.
Delfino was previously in a relationship with her
Roswell costar, Brendan Fehr. She is currently dating
Devon Gummersall (of My So-Called Life fame) and who
also played her cousin, Sean Deluca on Roswell. In May
2007, Majandra announced that she would be marrying beau
Devon Gummersall in October. |
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