ALMA MARTINEZ - AEA, - SAG-AFTRA

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BOSCH: LEGACY (Amazon) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Recurring guest star as GABRIELA LIDA, an East LA photojournalist and activist.
GENTEFIED (Netflix, Season 2) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Recurring guest star as LUPE, who Casimiro (series lead Joaquín Cosio) woos and eventually weds.
GOOD BEHAVIOR (TNT) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Guest starring as CONCHITA PEREIRA, the matriarch of the influential Pereira family (with Michelle Dockery)
MS. PURPLE (2019 Sundance Festival Grand Jury Award nominee) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As JUANITA, a full-time nurse who can no longer handle taking care of a comatose man (scene with Tiffany Chu).
POOLING TO PARADISE (feature) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As ELENA, mother to lead Jordan Carlos.
THE TERROR: INFAMY (AMC) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Recurring guest star as Abuela Rocio Trujillo, grandmother, of series lead Luz Ojeda (Cristina Rodlo).
TYGER TYGER (feature) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As Dr. Rosa (with Sam Quartin and Dylan Sprouse).
UNDONE (Amazon) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Recurring guest star as Rosario de Alejandro, a mystic. Amazon's first adult animated original series.
WHERE THE WATER RUNS (feature) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As MARIA, a street vendor.
1ST STRIKE (feature) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As Mrs. Garcia.
CAKE (feature) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As IRMA, who runs into old friends visiting Mexico (scene with Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, and Rose Abdoo). Nominated for Artios Award, Outstanding Achievement in Casting.
CLEMENCY (Sundance Film Festival winner, Grand Jury Prize) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As Ms. Jimenez, whose son is on death row. (Scene with Alfre Woodard).
GREY'S ANATOMY (ABC) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As Socorro Diaz who meets her son's girlfriend as her son wakes up from surgery.
LAST MAN ON EARTH (Fox comedy) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As La Abuela, an infamous cartel leader.
THE BRIDGE (Peabody Award winning series on FX) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Recurring guest star as Graciela Rivera, a drug smuggler who organized the use of a tunnel to Mexico (with Diane Kruger and Demián Bichir).
THE DARKNESS (feature) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As TERESA MORALES, a healer called in to banish intruders from a haunted house. With Kevin Bacon.
AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE PEOPLE VS. OJ SIMPSON (Performance Video) Quicktime
Family Court Judge
TRANSPECOS (Performance Video) Quicktime
As MARISA, a Mayan religious leader and native healer who examines a badly wounded man.
GENTEFIED (Netflix, Season 1) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Recurring guest star as LUPE, who Casimiro (series lead Joaquín Cosio) woos and eventually weds.
THE DATING GAME KILLER (Investigation Discovery) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Starring as ANNA ALCALA, the mother of killer Rodney Alcala (with Guillermo Díaz, Robert Knepper, Carrie Preston, and directed by Peter Medak).
STEVIE D (feature) (Performance Video) Quicktime
As Senator Garcia.
RAKE (Performance Video) Quicktime
Prosecutor

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Represented by:
Amsel Eisenstadt Frazier Adult Theatrical Div. (CA) (323) 939-1188 Theatrical (Film / TV), Voiceover, Hosting / Public Appearances Cunningham Escott Slevin Doherty - Adult Commercial (CA) (310) 475-2111 Rectangle Entertainment (CA) (424) 256-8003 Commercial Vox, Inc. (CA) (323) 951-4500 Voiceover

FILM (partial list)
How the Gringo Stole Christmas	Starring	Dir. Angel Gracia
(with George Lopez, Mariana Treviño,Emily Tosta,Jack Kilmer)
El Portafolio	Starring	Dir. Scottie Cameron
Officer Stanley	Supporting	Dir. Scottie Cameron
Clemency	Supporting	Dir. Chinonye Chukwu
(2019 Sundance Festival "Grand Jury Award")
Ms. Purple	Supporting	Dir. Justin Chong
Our Summer House	Supporting	Dir. Sam Irvin
Tyger Tyger	Supporting	Dir. Kerry Mondragon
Lost and Found	Supporting	Dir. Nat Halligan
Find My Daughter	Supporting	Dir. Brian Skiba
Where the Water Runs	Supporting	Dir. DuBois Ashong
Getting From Here	Supportiing	Dir. Faith Strongheart
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	Supporting	Dir. Zack Snyder
Transpecos	Supporting	Dir. Greg Kwedar
The Darkness	Supporting	Dir. Greg Mclean
Stevie D	Supporting	Dir. Chris Cordone
Cake	Supporting	Dir. Daniel Barnz
Strike One	Supporting	Dir. David Lleguar-Meiselman
For Greater Glory	Supporting	Dir. Dean Wright
Crossing Over	Supporting	Dir. Wayne Kramer
Under Fire	Supporting	Lion's Gate Films
Barbarosa	Supporting	Universal
Zoot Suit	Supporting	Universal
Born in East L.A.	Starring	Universal
Ballad of a Soldier	Supporting	El Teatro Campesino Prods.
Dollie Dearest	Supporting	Trimark Pictures
Trial By Terror	Supporting	Crawford Lane Productions
Shattered Image	Supporting	Rysher Productions
Maria's Story	Lead Voice	Camino Films
Selling Rosario (Short)	Supporting	Dir. Michael WInokur
The Panama Deception - Academy Award	Narrator	Empowerment Project
A Good and Perfect Gift	Lead	Franciscan Productions
Planting Melvin	Supporting	June Bug Films
Jacaranda (Short)	Lead	Cachita Productions
For Love (Short)	Lead	Diosa Productions
Loncheros (Short)	Lead	Dir. Gary Alvarez
Destiny (Short)	Supporting	Dir. Max Barbakow
The Novice (Short)	Supporting	Dir. Judy Hecht Dumonte
TELEVISION (partial list)
S.W.A.T.	Guest Star	CBS / Dir. Billy Gierhart
Bosch: Legacy	Guest Star - Recurring	Amazon
Gentefied - 2 seasons	Guest Star - Recurring	Netflix
The Terror Infamy - 4 episodes	Guest Star - Recurring	AMC/ Fred Toye, Toa Fraser
Strange Angel - 2 Episodes	Guest Star	CBD/ Dir. Ben Wheatley
MacGyver	Supporting	CBS/ Dir. Avi Youabian
The Last Man On Earth	Guest Star	FOX / Dir. David Noel
The Dating Game Killer - TV Movie	Supporting	I Discovery / Dir. Peter Medak
I Love Dick	Guest Star	AMAZON / Dir. Jill Soloway
Good Behavior	Guest Star	TNT / Phil Abraham
Grey's Anatomy	Co-Star	ABC / Rob Corn
Queen Sugar	Co-Star	OWN-WB Horizon/Ava DuVernay
Elena of Avalor - 6 episodes	Voice	Disney TV Animation
American Crime Story: People v OJ Simpson	Co-Star	FOX/ Ryan Murphy
The Bridge - 7 episodes	Guest Star - Recurring	F/X / Peabody Award Season 1
Welcome to the Family - Pilot	Co-Star	NBC/Sony
Rake	Co-Star	Fox
The Unit	Guest Star	CBS
Nash Bridges	Guest Star	CBS
Corridos:Tales of Passion & Revolution (Peabody Award)	Starring	Dir. Luis Valdez/Peabody Award
The New Adam 12 - 17 episodes	Guest Star - Recurring	Universal
General Hospital	Recurring	ABC
Quiet Killer	Guest Star - MOW	NBC
In a Child's Name	Guest Star - MOW	CBS / Dir. Glenn Jordan
The Boys	Co-Star - MOW	CBS / Dir. Glenn Jordan
Dress Gray	Co-Star - MOW	ABC / Dir. Glenn Jordan
Tough Love	Co-Star - MOW	CBS / Dir. Glenn Jordan
Seguín - Peabody Award	Supporting - MOW	PBS / Dir. Jesus Trevino
The Gambler Returns	Guest Star - MOW	CBS
Twilight Zone	Guest Star	CBS / Dir. Wes Craven
FBI Untold Stories	Guest Star	ABC
500 Nations	Voice	Exec Dir. Kevin Costner
BROADWAY/OFF BROADWAY
In the Summer House	Joanne Akalaitis	Vivan Beaumont Theatre
Green Card	Joanne Akalaitis	Joyce Theatre
REGIONAL THEATRE (partial list)
Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles	Laurie Woolery	Yale Repertory Theatre
*******Best Featured Actress In A Play	2023 Connecticut Critics Circle Award
Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles	Rebecca Martinez	Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
Just Like Us	Kent Thompson	Denver Center Theatre
Zoot Suit-National Theatre Company of Mexico	Luis Valdez	2011 Best Mexican Musical
Zoot Suit	Luis Valdez	Mark Taper Forum
Electricidad	Lisa Peterson	Mark Taper Forum
Green Card	Joanne Akalaitis	Mark Taper Forum
Bocón	Peter Brosius	Mark Taper Forum-ITP
Skin of Our Teeth	Fontaine Sayer	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Macbeth	Jerry Turner	Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Seagull	Risa Brainin	Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Twelfth Night	Michael Butler	San Jose Repertory
The Tempest	Thad Taylor	King's Road Theatre
Posada Mágica	Susana Tubert	Sundance Theatre Institute
Anna in the Tropics	Jose Luis Valenzuela	LA TheatreWorks/NPR Radio
Anna in the Tropics	Amy Gonzalez	TheaterWorks
Hello Dolly	David Bell	Long Beach Civic Center Opera
Sweet 15:Quinceañera	Sam Woodhouse	San Diego Repertory
Burning Patience	Doug Jacobs/Jorge Huerta	San Diego Repertory
Mummified Deer	Luis Valdez	San Diego Repertory
Man of the Flesh	Sam Woodhouse	San Diego Repertory
A Christmas Carol	John David Keller	South Coast Repertory
House of Blue Leaves	Tony Abatemarco	Pasadena Playhouse
Shadow of a Man	Maria Irene Fornes	Eureka Theatre
Fuente Ovejuna	Sharon Ott	Berkeley Repertory Theatre
The Marriage of Figaro	David Goldstein	Arizona Theatre Company
Corridos	Luis Valdez	Variety Arts Theatre
I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges	Luis Valdez	El Teatro Campesino
La Carpa de los Rasquachis	Luis Valdez	El Teatro Campesino
El Fin del Mundo	Luis Valdez	El Teatro Campesino
Sons of Don Juan	Margaret Booker	Asolo Theatre
Las Mariposas Son Libres	David Bell	Earl Holiman Fiesta Theatre
Wait Until Dark	Stephen Rothman	Pennsylvania Stage Company
TRAINING (partial list)
Ph.D. Drama, Stanford University	MFA Acting, USC	BA Theatre, Whittier College
El Teatro Campesino (Artistic Affiliation - 30 yrs)	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London)	C.U.T. Autonomous University o
Lee Strasberg	Jerzi Grotowski	Ariane Mnouchkine (Paris)
Anna Deveare Smith	Augusto Boal	Luis De Tavira
Patsy Rodenburg	Hector Mendoza	Augusto Boal
Thomas Leabhart	Duncan Ross	Luis Valdez
Caryn West - Acting Coach

Member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, SDC, ANDA (Mexican Actors' Union) Member, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Member, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences PhD Drama Stanford University; MFA Acting USC; BA Theatre, Whittier College Over 100 Theatre Productions, Workshops, Readings Over 100 Television commercials, Radio commercials and Voice Over credits - List Upon Request

Physical Characteristics / Measurements
Height: 5'2"	Weight: 165 lbs

ANDA - Member, Mexican Actors' Union, Bowling, Softball, Tennis, Dance Ballroom, Dance Rumba, Dance Salsa, Dance Samba, Dance Swing, Improvisation, Licensed Driver, Singer, Voiceover, British - BBC English Accent, Spanish Accent, Fluent Spanish, Fluent Spanish - Mexico City

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ALMA MARTINEZ - AEA, - SAG-AFTRA

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TELEVISION (partial list)

BROADWAY/OFF BROADWAY

REGIONAL THEATRE (partial list)

TRAINING (partial list)

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