Bertila Damas

Born in Cuba, Bertila Damas is an American actress who got her start in Miami, acting in Spanish-language theater while she was in college. She later trained at New York City's Circle in the Square Theater School and went on to study with Stella Adler. On stage she has played Clemencia in Electricidad and Marta in Eduardo Machado's Fabiola, and she is a Garland Award recipient. Her films include Nothing but Trouble (1991), along with Mi Vida Loca and Fires Within, and on television she has appeared in The John Larroquette Show, NYPD Blue, Grimm and the Star Trek series Deep Space Nine and Voyager, plus a recurring part as Camila Santiago on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Spanish-language viewers know her as the villainous Marta on Telemundo's Angelica, mi vida. She has also worked in commercials and voiceovers in Spanish and English.