Lana Parrilla
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Lana Parrilla as Teresa Ortiz on Boomtown. |
Lana Parrilla (born
July 15 1977 in
Brooklyn, New York) is a
contemporary American actress well known for her television work.
A native of
Brooklyn, Lana's father
Sam was a professional
baseball player for the
Philadelphia Phillies in the
1970s.
Lana had roles in a few movies including the
Matthew Modine-
Martin Landau flick
Very Mean Men (
2000), the lead role in the unsuccessful
Spiders (
2000), the starring role in the
David-Matthew Barnes coming-of-age drama
Frozen Stars (2003) and the
Jean-Claude Van Damme movie
Replicant.
Lana became noticed in the mainstream when she joined the cast of
Spin City in 2000, playing Angie Ordonez for one season. After this, she joined
Donnie Wahlberg and
Neal McDonough in the
2002 series
Boomtown in which she played Teresa, a paramedic. Initially a success,
Boomtown quickly fell in the ratings, and Lana's character became a police academy rookie, so as to tie her more closely to the rest of the show. But the show was cancelled just two episodes into its second season.
Lana next guest starred in shows such as
JAG,
NYPD Blue and
Six Feet Under.
In
2005, Lana took a recurring guest role on the fourth season of
24 as Sarah Gavin, a
Counter Terrorist Unit agent. After just six episodes, Lana was promoted to a main cast member, but in the thirteenth episode, she was written out for reasons unknown after her character demanded a promotion from temporary head
Michelle Dessler (
Reiko Aylesworth) which was denied.
From early
2006, Parrilla will be seen on the
NBC television series Windfall alongside
Luke Perry, former
24 cast member
Sarah Wynter, and Parilla's former
Boomtown castmate
Jason Gedrick.
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