Majandra Delfino
Encyclopedia
Majandra Delfino is an Alma Award
-nominated Venezuela
n-American
actress and singer best known for her role as Maria DeLuca
on the television
series Roswell
and Georgia's best friend, Jo Pye on the State of Georgia
.
, Venezuela
, the daughter of an entrepreneur, and emigrated to the United States in the mid 1980s. She was nicknamed "Majandra" by her elder sister, Marieh
, who is also an actress. Marieh could not pronounce her full name, and so the nickname stuck. She is half Cuban
and half Venezuela
n.
She attended Ransom Everglades
and New World School of the Arts
in Miami, Florida
. She married actor Devon Gummersall
in 2007, who played her character's
cousin in Roswell
. They divorced in 2008.
On March 18, 2011, Delfino married actor and Quarterlife
co-star David Walton
in Miami.
as well as Natalie in The Secret Life of Girls
. She also acted in Reeseville, Celeste in the City, The Tony Danza Show, and R.S.V.P.
, with Jason Mewes
and Glenn Quinn
. She played Trudi in the film State's Evidence
, which covers the controversial topic of violence in schools. She lost to Mena Suvari
for the role of Angela Hayes in the 1999 film American Beauty
.
Delfino starred in a number of episodes of the NBC
show Quarterlife
, also shown on MySpaceTV, which started airing November 11, 2007. As of June 2011, she was starring with Raven-Symoné
in the show State of Georgia
on the ABC Family
channel till it's cancelation.
On October 31, 2001, Delfino released the EP The Sicks
on her own label, Dripfeed, without radio
or television airplay. Producer
/remix
er Justin Lassen
created an 11-remix suite with Delfino's masters from The Sicks that was never fully released due to red tape
.
She also received attention in France, through her duet
with French chanteuse RoBERT, entitled Le Prince Bleu D'Arthelius in which she sings both in English and French.
Her second album, Tarte
, was released on April 23, 2007, by her own record company, Red Velvet Cake Records, through her Web site www.majandra.com and can now be purchased through iTunes
along with The Sicks.
In February 2011, the singer announced, through her Twitter
, that she is working on her third studio album, scheduled for a late 2011 release.
Alma Award
The American Latino Media Arts Award, or ALMA Award is a distinction awarded to Latino performers who promote positive portrayals of Latinos in the entertainment field...
-nominated Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n-American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress and singer best known for her role as Maria DeLuca
Maria DeLuca
Maria DeLuca is a fictional character created by Melinda Metz for the young adults book series Roswell High and adapted by Jason Katims for the 1999-2002 American science fiction television series Roswell...
on the television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
series Roswell
Roswell (TV series)
Roswell is an American science fiction television series developed, produced, and co-written by Jason Katims. The series debuted on October 6, 1999 on The WB and moved to UPN for the third season. The last episode aired May 14, 2002...
and Georgia's best friend, Jo Pye on the State of Georgia
State of Georgia (TV series)
State of Georgia is an American television situation comedy. It stars Raven-Symoné, Majandra Delfino and Loretta Devine. The half-hour multi-cam comedy series stars Raven-Symoné as Georgia, an aspiring actress with a larger-than-life personality, and her science geek best friend, Jo , who are...
.
Personal life
Delfino was born in CaracasCaracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
, Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, the daughter of an entrepreneur, and emigrated to the United States in the mid 1980s. She was nicknamed "Majandra" by her elder sister, Marieh
Marieh Delfino
Marieh Delfino is an American actress.Delfino was born in Caracas, Venezuela to an entrepreneur father, and immigrated to the United States in 1984. Her sister is Majandra Delfino...
, who is also an actress. Marieh could not pronounce her full name, and so the nickname stuck. She is half Cuban
Cubans
Cubans or Cuban people are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...
and half Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n.
She attended Ransom Everglades
Ransom Everglades
Ransom Everglades is an independent, non-profit, co-educational, college-preparatory day school serving grades six to twelve in Coconut Grove in Miami, Florida. It formed with the merger in 1974 of the Everglades School for Girls and the Ransom School for Boys...
and New World School of the Arts
New World School of the Arts
New World School of the Arts is a public magnet high school and college in Downtown Miami, Florida with dual-enrollment programs in visual arts, dance, theatre, musical theatre, instrumental music, and vocal music. Both the college and the high school are accredited by the Southern Association of...
in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
. She married actor Devon Gummersall
Devon Gummersall
Devon Ryan Gummersall is an American actor, writer, and television and film director, perhaps best known for acting on the cult classic television show My So-Called Life.-Life and career:...
in 2007, who played her character's
Maria DeLuca
Maria DeLuca is a fictional character created by Melinda Metz for the young adults book series Roswell High and adapted by Jason Katims for the 1999-2002 American science fiction television series Roswell...
cousin in Roswell
Roswell (TV series)
Roswell is an American science fiction television series developed, produced, and co-written by Jason Katims. The series debuted on October 6, 1999 on The WB and moved to UPN for the third season. The last episode aired May 14, 2002...
. They divorced in 2008.
On March 18, 2011, Delfino married actor and Quarterlife
Quarterlife
Quarterlife is an American web series, also briefly an NBC television series, created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creators of Thirtysomething and Once and Again, and producers of My So-Called Life...
co-star David Walton
David Walton (actor)
David B. Walton is an American actor, best known for his roles in four shows on NBC. He played Dr. Rick in Fired Up. He was also a series regular on Cracking Up, as Liam Connor.Walton is a 2001 graduate of Brown University....
in Miami.
Film and television
Delfino started playing Maria Deluca on Roswell, where on hiatus she starred in the small but memorable role of Vanessa in TrafficTraffic (2000 film)
Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the...
as well as Natalie in The Secret Life of Girls
The Secret Life of Girls
The Secret Life of Girls is a 1999 film starring Majandra Delfino, Linda Hamilton, Eugene Levy, and Meagan Good.-External links:...
. She also acted in Reeseville, Celeste in the City, The Tony Danza Show, and R.S.V.P.
R.S.V.P. (film)
R.S.V.P. is a 2002 American horror film written and directed by Mark Anthony Galluzzo.The plot of this black comedy in the spirit of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians is about the post-graduation party of a college student, obsessed with serial killers, during which...
, with Jason Mewes
Jason Mewes
Jason Edward Mewes is an American television, film actor, and internet radio show host best known for playing Jay, the vocal half of the duo Jay and Silent Bob, in longtime friend Kevin Smith's films.-Early life:...
and Glenn Quinn
Glenn Quinn
Glenn Martin Christopher Francis Quinn was an Irish actor in television and film, known for playing Mark Healy in the American sitcom Roseanne, and Doyle, a half-demon, on the 1999–2004 television series Angel, a spin-off series of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.-Early life:Quinn...
. She played Trudi in the film State's Evidence
State's Evidence
State's Evidence is an independent film created in 2004 and released in 2006, directed by Benjamin Louis and starring Douglas Smith, Alexa Vega, Majandra Delfino, Kris Lemche, Cody McMains, and Drew Tyler Bell.-Plot summary:...
, which covers the controversial topic of violence in schools. She lost to Mena Suvari
Mena Suvari
Mena Alexandra Suvari is an American actress, fashion designer, and model. Shortly after beginning her career as a model, she appeared in guest roles on 1990's television shows such as Boy Meets World and High Incident...
for the role of Angela Hayes in the 1999 film American Beauty
American Beauty (film)
American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a middle-aged magazine writer who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela...
.
Delfino starred in a number of episodes of the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
show Quarterlife
Quarterlife
Quarterlife is an American web series, also briefly an NBC television series, created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creators of Thirtysomething and Once and Again, and producers of My So-Called Life...
, also shown on MySpaceTV, which started airing November 11, 2007. As of June 2011, she was starring with Raven-Symoné
Raven-Symoné
Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman , known professionally as Raven-Symoné , or simply Raven, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, comedian, dancer, television producer and model. Symoné launched her successful career in 1989 after appearing in The Cosby Show as Olivia...
in the show State of Georgia
State of Georgia (TV series)
State of Georgia is an American television situation comedy. It stars Raven-Symoné, Majandra Delfino and Loretta Devine. The half-hour multi-cam comedy series stars Raven-Symoné as Georgia, an aspiring actress with a larger-than-life personality, and her science geek best friend, Jo , who are...
on the ABC Family
ABC Family
ABC Family, stylized as abc family, is an American television network, owned by ABC Family Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company...
channel till it's cancelation.
Music
Delfino sang in several Roswell episodes, such as "Viva Las Vegas", "Cry Your Name", and "Behind the Music". In the summer of 2000, Delfino released three songs onto the internet, "Siren", "Bruises" and "Tattoo", and wrote and produced them in association with "Sci-Fi Lullaby".On October 31, 2001, Delfino released the EP The Sicks
The Sicks
The Sicks is the first music release by American Independent and dark cabaret singer Majandra Delfino, who releases records under the name 'Majandra'....
on her own label, Dripfeed, without radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
or television airplay. Producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
/remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
er Justin Lassen
Justin Lassen
Justin Lassen, born August 27, 1981 in Denver, Colorado, is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and remixer who has worked in the film and game industries.- Omnicron :...
created an 11-remix suite with Delfino's masters from The Sicks that was never fully released due to red tape
Red tape
Red tape is excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making...
.
She also received attention in France, through her duet
Duet (music)
A duet is a musical composition for two performers. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists; with other instruments, the word duo is also often used. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as...
with French chanteuse RoBERT, entitled Le Prince Bleu D'Arthelius in which she sings both in English and French.
Her second album, Tarte
Tarte
Tarte is the debut studio album from the American indie and dark cabaret artist, Majandra Delfino, who releases records under the name 'Majandra'...
, was released on April 23, 2007, by her own record company, Red Velvet Cake Records, through her Web site www.majandra.com and can now be purchased through iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
along with The Sicks.
In February 2011, the singer announced, through her Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
, that she is working on her third studio album, scheduled for a late 2011 release.
Majandra
- The SicksThe SicksThe Sicks is the first music release by American Independent and dark cabaret singer Majandra Delfino, who releases records under the name 'Majandra'....
(EP) (2001) Dripfeed - Le Prince Bleu D'Arthelius (2003) (CD Single duet with RoBERT)
- TarteTarteTarte is the debut studio album from the American indie and dark cabaret artist, Majandra Delfino, who releases records under the name 'Majandra'...
(2007) Red Velvet Cake Records - Upcoming third album (2011)
Films
- Web of Lies (2009)
- Heidi 4 PawsHeidi 4 PawsHeidi 4 Paws is a feature length children's film that retells the classic story of Heidi using dogs in all the acting roles. Heidi 4 Paws was syndicated to public television stations in the United States through American Public Television and WTTW Chicago in November/December 2008.Based on the...
(2008) - State's EvidenceState's EvidenceState's Evidence is an independent film created in 2004 and released in 2006, directed by Benjamin Louis and starring Douglas Smith, Alexa Vega, Majandra Delfino, Kris Lemche, Cody McMains, and Drew Tyler Bell.-Plot summary:...
(2006) - Don't Come KnockingDon't Come KnockingDon't Come Knocking is a 2005 film, a comedy-drama road movie directed by German director Wim Wenders and written by Wenders and actor/playwright Sam Shepard. The two had previously collaborated on the film Paris, Texas...
(2005) - Celeste in the CityCeleste in the CityCeleste in the City is a television movie starring Majandra Delfino and Nicholas Brendon. It premiered on ABC Family in 2004. It was directed by Larry Shaw.-Plot:...
(2004) - Reeseville (2003)
- R.S.V.P.R.S.V.P. (film)R.S.V.P. is a 2002 American horror film written and directed by Mark Anthony Galluzzo.The plot of this black comedy in the spirit of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians is about the post-graduation party of a college student, obsessed with serial killers, during which...
(2002) - The Learning CurveThe Learning CurveThe Learning Curve is a 2001 American thriller film about two Los Angeles nightclub scenesters who team up as con artists. It explores themes of ruthless ambition and its consequences. The film was directed by Eric Schwab, and stars Carmine Giovinazzo, Norbert Weisser, and Monet Mazur.-Plot:Paul...
(2001) - TrafficTraffic (2000 film)Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the...
(2000) - Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the ThirteenthShriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the ThirteenthShriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth is a 2000 American direct-to-video parody film directed by John Blanchard. Several mid and late '90s teen horror films are parodied, as are the slasher films of the '70s and '80s, including the Scream films , Friday the 13th , Halloween , A...
(2000) - The Secret Life of GirlsThe Secret Life of GirlsThe Secret Life of Girls is a 1999 film starring Majandra Delfino, Linda Hamilton, Eugene Levy, and Meagan Good.-External links:...
(1999) - Zeus and RoxanneZeus and RoxanneZeus and Roxanne is a 1997 family comedy/adventure film directed by George T. Miller. The film revolves around the friendship between the title characters, a dog and a dolphin, respectively. The film stars Steve Guttenberg and Kathleen Quinlan.-Cast:...
(1997)
Television
- Men of a Certain Age - Season 2, Episode 8 (Stella - 2 episode - "The Pickup", "A League of Their Owen")
- State of GeorgiaState of Georgia (TV series)State of Georgia is an American television situation comedy. It stars Raven-Symoné, Majandra Delfino and Loretta Devine. The half-hour multi-cam comedy series stars Raven-Symoné as Georgia, an aspiring actress with a larger-than-life personality, and her science geek best friend, Jo , who are...
(Jo Pye - Main role) - QuarterlifeQuarterlifeQuarterlife is an American web series, also briefly an NBC television series, created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creators of Thirtysomething and Once and Again, and producers of My So-Called Life...
(Vanessa - 5 episodes - "Anxiety", "Compromise", "Finding a Voice", "Goodbyes", "Home Sweet Home") - Help Me Help YouHelp Me Help YouHelp Me Help You is an American television situation comedy that aired from September 26, 2006 to December 12, 2006. It was first broadcast at 9:30pm Tuesdays on ABC in the United States and on Global in Canada...
(Lucy - 2 episodes - "The Mattress", Pilot) - Three Moons Over MilfordThree Moons Over MilfordThree Moons Over Milford is an American science fiction dramedy set in a picturesque small town in southern Vermont. Shortly before the series begins, an asteroid hits the Moon, shattering it into three fragments, threatening to eventually fall to Earth and end life...
(Grace Wochuck - 1 episode - Unaired Pilot) - Ultra (Suzette - 1 episode - Pilot)
- RoswellRoswell (TV series)Roswell is an American science fiction television series developed, produced, and co-written by Jason Katims. The series debuted on October 6, 1999 on The WB and moved to UPN for the third season. The last episode aired May 14, 2002...
(Maria DeLucaMaria DeLucaMaria DeLuca is a fictional character created by Melinda Metz for the young adults book series Roswell High and adapted by Jason Katims for the 1999-2002 American science fiction television series Roswell...
- appeared in 60 episodes) - Katie Joplin (Sara Shotz)
- The Tony Danza Show (Tina DiMeo)