Shirley Rumierk

Shirley Rumierk is an American actress who grew up in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan and first tried acting at ten through the 52nd Street Project, which brings children together with theater professionals. She attended Trinity School on the Upper West Side, studied economics at Harvard University and switched to Hispanic studies, graduating in 1995, then returned to New York for an acting conservatory. Her early screen work was brief until a recurring part on East Willy B in 2011, and she had a main role as Livvy in the 2016 film 11:55. Her breakthrough came in 2018 as Vanessa Suarez across ten episodes of the NBC series Rise, followed by Autumn Cox on Manifest and Yolanda Carrion in the Netflix series Teenage Bounty Hunters. She also took one-off roles in Chicago P.D., Scenes from a Marriage, The Equalizer and East New York, and joined the cast of A Good Person in 2023.