I have always been resposible & hardworking. When I Was in 8th grade my mom couldn’t buy me things, so I went & got myself a job @ Marketbasket as a cashier. At the age of seventeen,I bought myself a toyota corolla. I always been independent & a gogetter, I don’t sit around & wait for people to do things for me. I am not afraid of trying new things in life i love challenges, i like going after things that are hard to have & If I have to go to the other side of the world & get it, I would.  When I entered high school every one wanted to be my friend, I mean i wasn’t fat anymore I had lost weight & was looking sexy and developing pretty fast. My freshman year I wanted to be in the mix so i would go to the house jams, you know the best music was back in “89″. I got popular, By my junior year I was really deferent & had a certain style to me. Everyone talked about the way I dressed. I was always in Boston partying because alway felt like I dindn’t belong there. People would always say that i was weird,I was always the talk of town.If I dated a guy the whole town knew it the next day. Girls did not like me for no reason. When time when I was 18 i was driving home & these 4 girls from school followed me to my house & when I got out of the car jumped me, luckily that my mom was looking out the window & ran out to help me. If i dated a guy he would say that he slept with me, i mean i lost my virginity when i was 19 years old com’n! I always knew that i belonged somewhere else, but since i was trapped in that little town, i would get wright sucked back in, hanging with my friends going to the malls, clubs…. it was a routine, I dind’t know what i was going to do when i graduated from high school. I just knew that i had to go to college but didn’t evern know what to major in. I graduated from Lawrence High School Attended Northern Essex Community college & there i took a class in Theatre. I new that I wanted to do it but din’t know how to begin & put it past me. I knew that the wright thing was to work in an office & thats what i went for. At the time I got pregnant had a beautiful son. After my son was 9months I became single & had to work evern harder in Life. I had to do something in my life & be  a role model to my son. Even though I have always had a swagger to me, i have also had insecurities that i have had to overcome.I have always tried to stay positive in life even through the dificult times.I wanted & needed something more in life but i did not know how to begin. This is where my journey as an actor begins. I was working at  a company called Norell Services a staffing company as a secretary, a young man by the name of bill walks in, he is talking about how he just did background work on a film called Carlito’s Way starring Al Pacino In New York City. All I remember my brain opening saying I want to do this. I asked bill that how he found out about the auditions, he said that in New York there is this newspaper that comes out everyweek on the newstands called Backstage. I went to Boston Harvard square newstand, picked up the casting newsletter & the rest is history.

I remember being 4 years old & being in front of a tv watching wonder woman & bionic woman, all i could repeat to my self was, that i wanted to be inside the tv where they were but where i come from, people were ignorent & dind’t think that anything was possible. MY parents are from the Dominican Republic & my grandparents from spain. My mother came to the states when she was 16 years old My father also came @ a young age He had two kids & had two childrens before he married my mom. I was the oldest of three. two boys & myself until my youngest sister was born. I have always been a curious little girl, when i was in second grade I would steal my moms make- up & clothes, & wear them to school can you imagine? I am serious! I mean I would be cleaning my house, washing dishes,like when I was seven. it literally bothered me to see the house dirty & at times i would be incharge of making sure that the house would stay clean. THere was confidence & insecurities about me. I wanted to be somebody but everyone around me was just so negative. I was fat & people would make fun of me. when I went to school girls wanted to fight me for no reason. so no matter how spontaneous i was, i just would stay to myself cause everyone else was negative, so since i was deferent & would get picked on. I always had a confidence to me I just had to learn how to use it, & as i got older i did.

I went to the call back last week For the HBO reality tv show & they interviewed me & basically just wanted to know what my child hood & life has been like.?There was three people in the room listening to my story , which has been very enteresting. By the way when I turned in my story to the HBO producers, a musician who read my story asked me if i ever thought about writing a book about my life? I said yes but never have just got to it, he asked me to write a chapter to pitch after he talked to his attorney. So these past two weeks thats what I have been doing, rewinding my life & trying to remember everything  I have been through in which you guys will find out. In the book I will be talking about alot of people that are your favorite actors, Directors, Producers, & casting directors that i  know. So stay tuned! Pray for me for the reality show!

I have been in the Entertainment world for quite some time. When going to an audition relax, you never know what the casting director is looking for anyways. I have studied with acting coach Susan Batson author of the book “truth” & did a graduate program @ the William Esper Studio. It is very important to study your craft. I asked my agent the other day why i dind’t get a call back from the NBC 30 Rock casting , i recall doing well, he said not to worry cause they were looking for a certain look. My point is you might do well @ an audition & not book the part or you might book the part & they will make you look like the character they want you to be. my thing is just believe & keep going your opportunity will come.

My best wishes

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I just finish writing my 12 chapter book to pitch. I have to go through my lines today for an audition I have tomorrow @ Judy Henderson Casting. I will be reading for prison guard & officer. I will be enrolling with Valentino Artist Management because I need more personal guidence, I think it will work. By the way Valentino’s father is partners with Burt Padells firm so i know im in good hands.

God bless

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