Dania Ramirez Biography

Name : Dania Ramirez

ate of Birth : 8 November 1979, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 

Height : 5' 4½" (1.64 m) 

Occupation : Actress

Dania Ramirez was born on November 8, 1979 in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. At a young age, she already had an affinity for performing, reenacting Spanish soap operas in front of her family. By the age of 15, she was already in New York City, working in a convenience store where she was eventually discovered by a modeling scout, who promptly cast her in a television commercial. Upon deciding to pursue acting professionally under the guidance of Flo Greeberg at the Actor’s Workshop in New York City, she finally moved to Los Angeles.

Before she became one of the few Dominican actresses working in Hollywood, the raven-haired, olive-skinned Dania Ramirez launched her career in her family's home of New York City at the age of 15. Reportedly approached by a modeling recruiter while working in a store as a security girl (collecting patrons' handbags), Ramirez soon established herself as a successful print model, then transitioned, sequentially, to commercials, television, and big-screen features. Ramirez met director Spike_Lee when cast as an extra in HBO's omnibus feature Subway_Stories (1997) -- a connection that spawned their collaboration on Lee's 2004 picture She_Hate_Me (in which she played the minor part of Alex Guerrero). Ramirez then signed on for supporting roles in such features as Fat_Albert (2004), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), and Illegal_Tender (2007). On the small screen, Ramirez played potential slayer Caridad in several episodes of the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2003) and Blanca Selgado, a love interest of A.J. Soprano (Robert_Iler) during the sixth season of The_Sopranos (2006-2007). In fall 2007, she joined the cast of the smash-hit sci-fi series Heroes, playing the emotional and mysteriously deadly Maya Herrera.