Elizabeth Rodriguez

Elizabeth Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican actress from Manhattan who began appearing in films while still a student. Her early screen credits included supporting parts in Dead Presidents (1995) and I Think I Do (1997), and she later co-starred in Return to Paradise (1998) and played Detective Gina Calabrese in Miami Vice (2006). After two years at the William Esper Studio, she worked in Broadway and off-Broadway theater. In 2011 she earned a Tony Award nomination and won an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Theatre World Award for Stephen Adly Guirgis's play The Motherfucker with the Hat. On television she played Aleida Diaz in Orange Is the New Black (2013 to 2019) and starred in the first season of Fear the Walking Dead. Her later films include Side Effects (2013), The Drop (2014), Logan (2017), and Skate Kitchen (2018). She co-wrote and starred in Allswell in New York (2022), and received a Best Screenplay award for it.