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Dania Ramirez
Ramirez at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, September 2008
Born	November 8, 1979 (1979-11-08) (age 30) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1997–present

Dania Ramirez (born November 8, 1979) is a Dominican TV film actress. She is most recently known for playing a recurring character during the last season of The Sopranos and as Maya Herrera in Heroes. She also played female antagonist Callisto in X-Men: The Last Stand.

[edit] Early life

Ramirez was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. At an early age, she decided to become an actress. As a young child, she would reenact Spanish soap operas for her family. She was discovered by a modeling scout while working in a New York City convenience store at the age of 15, and was cast in a small part in a soda commercial. Later, she decided to pursue acting seriously and studied at the Actor's Workshop in New York City under Flo Greenberg.^[1] She graduated from Montclair State University in 1999, where her volleyball talents led her to be placed among the top five in career digs, digs/game, solo blocks and total blocks.^[2] She then moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career.^[1]

[edit] Career

[edit] Music videos

Ramirez has appeared in several music videos, including Jay-Z's Streets is Watching (1998), LL Cool J's "Hush" (2005; directed by her fiancè, Jessy Terrero^[3][4]), and Santana's "Into the Night" (2007).Also "Cry Baby Cry" (a Santana and Sean Paul Collaboration) Ramirez has also appeared in Wisin y Yandel's Music Video Dime Que Te Paso, in which she played the main character, the wife and mother of a military man at war in Iraq who finds out her husband died at war.

[edit] Films

Ramirez appeared as an extra in the HBO film Subway Stories (1997), where she met filmmaker Spike Lee who later cast her in his film, She Hate Me (2004). She played older sister "Laurie" in the movie Fat Albert (2004). She was Callisto, one of The Omegas, in the comic book film X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). She went on to star in The 5th Commandment in 2008, a film written and starring Rick Yune.

[edit] Television

Ramirez appeared as the minor character Caridad in the final episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and as Blanca Selgado, a recurring role during the the sixth season of The Sopranos.

Currently, Ramirez portrays the character of Maya on the TV series Heroes.^[5]

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Awards

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Dania Ramirez at TV.com
• Dania Ramirez at the Internet Movie Database
• Dania Ramirez at MySpace

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