Laura Patalano

Laura Patalano is a Mexican actress who trained in drama at El Instituto de Arte Escenico and began her career in Mexico. Her film credits include Ramin Bahrani's independent feature Chop Shop (2008), a Directors' Fortnight selection at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and Mosquita y Mari (2012), which was shown at Sundance. On television she worked on the FX crime drama The Bridge and the Showtime series Dexter. She starred in the Imagen Award-winning short You're Dead to Me (2013) and won Best Dramatic Actress at the CMG Film Festival for it. Her stage work includes Mexican productions such as Una Esfinge Llamada Cordelia and Frida Kahlo, New York credits including Las Hermanas Mirabal, and the bilingual Thalia Spanish Theatre show The Ladies Room/Baño de Damas, for which she received an HOLA Award and an ACE Award nomination. After more than ten years in New York City, she moved to Los Angeles.