Marlene Forte

Cuban actress and producer Marlene Forte, born in Havana, has worked in television and film. She is perhaps best known for playing Carmen Ramos on the soap opera Dallas from 2012 to 2014, and she also had recurring parts on Fear the Walking Dead, The Fosters and Altered Carbon. Crossing Jordan, Tyler Perry's House of Payne and The Secret Life of the American Teenager were among her other television credits. On film, she played Mrs. Glass in Real Women Have Curves (2002), a housekeeper in A Haunted House (2013), and supporting roles in El Chicano (2018), Knives Out (2019) and The Way Back (2020). Her film work also includes the Netflix vampire film Night Teeth (2021). In 2022 she starred in and produced the horror thriller Hypochondriac, which premiered at the South by Southwest festival.