Jaina Lee Ortiz

Jaina Lee Ortiz is an American actress and dancer. Born in California and raised in The Bronx, she trained in salsa and mambo from age nine and was teaching and performing internationally by her mid-teens. She began with student films and studied the Meisner technique for two years at Maggie Flanigan Studios. She was cast on VH1's Scream Queens and finished as first runner-up. She played a regular role in The After (2014), a Chris Carter Amazon drama whose pilot aired that year. She then became the female lead of Fox's Rosewood and later had a recurring part on USA's Shooter. In 2017 she appeared as herself in the comedy Girls Trip. She led ABC's Station 19, a Grey's Anatomy spin-off, and starred in the films Righteous Thieves (2023) and The Long Game (2024). She plays Emi Ochoa on ABC's R.J. Decker.