Karina Arroyave

Karina Arroyave is a Colombian-American actress whose career began in daytime serials and grew to take in film, Broadway and streaming television. Born in Colombia, she moved as a baby to New York City, where she studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, and later took comedy classes at The Groundlings in Los Angeles. After a stage debut in the title part of Marisol and a small 1988 turn on The Equalizer, she played Bianca Marquez Walsh on As the World Turns into 1994, and in 1993 she reached Broadway in In the Summer House. Lean on Me (1989) brought her film debut, followed by supporting parts in The Cowboy Way (1994), One Eight Seven (1997), Flawless (1999), Crash (2005), Adrift in Manhattan (2007) and Holy Rollers (2010). Her television work includes Jamey Farrell on 24, Karla Cordova on Orange Is the New Black and Mierce Xiu on The Blacklist.