Soledad St. Hilaire

Soledad St. Hilaire is an actress who was born in the City of Panama and moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1970 to attend California Business College, later studying in Cypress College's intensive theater program. A casting agent, frustrated by how hard it was to find qualified motherly Hispanic or Latina women for a commercial, urged her to try show business. She studied the industry and soon won her first big-screen part, in Miguel Arteta's controversial Star Maps (1997). Other films followed: Wim Wenders's The End of Violence (1997), John Stockwell's Crazy/Beautiful (2001), and Patricia Cardoso's Real Women Have Curves (2002), which took the Sundance Film Festival's Audience Award. She also acted in Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal (2002).