Ara Celi

Ara Celi is an American actress who has appeared in film and television. Born in El Paso, Texas, she performed in high school productions before moving to Mexico as a teenager, where she worked in a Spanish-language soap opera. She relocated to Los Angeles after three months and landed guest roles on Saved by the Bell: The College Years, The Brothers García, and Nip/Tuck. Her best-known role is the Inca Princess, also called Ampata Gutierrez, in the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In film, she starred in the 1997 dance movie Looking for Lola and appeared in Bruce Almighty, American Beauty (1999), and From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000), where she played Esmeralda and Santanico Pandemonium. She also played a reporter in Machete (2010), acted in the 2000 independent feature Go Fish, and voiced Katarina DeLeon in Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat.