Justina Machado
Biography
Justina Machado is an American actress from Chicago who performed with the Latino Chicago Theater Company before landing her first screen roles in 1996. She broke through as Vanessa Diaz on the HBO comedy-drama Six Feet Under, a part that grew from supporting player to main character and brought her a Screen Actors Guild Award with the ensemble. She went on to lead several short-lived shows, among them Welcome to the Family, Missing and Three Rivers, and appeared in films such as Final Destination 2 (2003), Torque (2004), The Call (2013), The Purge: Anarchy (2014) and All Together Now (2020). From 2017 to 2020 she starred as Penelope Alvarez in the comedy One Day at a Time, winning two Imagen Awards and a Critics' Choice nomination. She played Dolores Roach in the 2023 series of that name and in 2025 received a Tony nomination for Real Women Have Curves.
54years old
Turns 55 on September 6in 328 days
- Born Chicago
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Justina Milagros Machado
Movie Career
- Films
- 17
- Career span
- 30 years1996 to 2026
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A first
In the Broadway production of In the Heights, Machado took over from Andréa Burns, becoming the first person to replace her in that show.
Early training
Machado's experience with the Latino Chicago Theater Company helped open doors for her in New York City, where she moved in 1990 after graduating from Lane Tech.
First role
Machado was offered a professional acting job in Los Angeles, and once she relocated there, she got her first two acting roles in 1996.
A role that slipped away
Machado was announced to portray Florence Johnston in a Live in Front of a Studio Audience production of The Jeffersons, but the role was instead reprised by Marla Gibbs.
A first
Machado was the first to play Carmen Garcia in the Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves in 2025. That performance brought her a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
Justina Machado movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild2022as Zee (or whatever her name is)voice
IMDb rating 4.421K votes
Worked with
Justina Machado shares two films with Jaime Pressly, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Jaime Pressly's page
Danny Trejo's page
Morgan Freeman's page
John Goodman's page
Whoopi Goldberg's page
Fred Tatasciore's page
All films by David R. Ellis
James DeMonacoDirector, 1 film, 2014
All films by James DeMonaco
Brad AndersonDirector, 1 film, 2013
All films by Brad Anderson
Box office
What Justina Machado's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$348 million
7 of the 17 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 17 films: 7 worldwide figure; 7 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 2 figure not found.
- 7Worldwide figure
- 7Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 2Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$112M32.1% of the total
- 2$91M26.1% of the total
- 3$69M19.7% of the total
- 4$47M13.4% of the total
- 5$23M6.5% of the total
- 6$7.3M2.1% of the total
- 7$250K0.1% of the total
