Rosie Perez
Rosie Perez was born in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City and was the daughter of Lydia Perez and Ismael Serrano who was a merchant marine. Rosie is Puerto Rican. Rosie attended Grover Cleveland High School, Ridgewood, Queens, New York. She later began her studies at Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California. Rosie Perez was in her second year of college, and was just about to move back to New York from Los Angeles. She was invited to a leaving celebration by her classmates. The moment Spike Lee proposed that she work in his film Do the Right Thing (1989), she said yes. It would be her first big acting job. She went on play the character of Carla Rodrigo in Peter Weir's Fearless (1993) in which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. (She was defeated by Anna Paquin for The Piano (1993). The Latin community was at the center for the majority of my critique early in my career. They would take me out to lunch and ask, "Can I go and learn some lessons s...
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