
Acting
Vanessa Marquez was born on December 21, 1968 in Los Angeles County, California. She decided that she wanted to be an actress after she first saw The Wizard of Oz (1939) when she was only 3 or 4. She made her film debut as Ana Delgado in Stand and Deliver in 1988. In the Nineties Miss Marquez was very much in demand as an actress, appearing in such films as Twenty Bucks (1993), Bound by Honor (1993, also known as Blood In, Blood Out), and Father Hood (1993). On television she guest starred on such shows as Wiseguy, Seinfeld, Nurses, and Melrose Place. She appeared in the first three seasons on…

Ninety Minutes Later
as Self

Fire & Ice
as Wanda

Under Suspicion
as Singer (voice)

All Lies End in Murder
as Yvonne Valesquez

Hit Me
as Housekeeper

State of Emergency
as Violetta

Bound by Honor
as Montana's Daughter

Father Hood
as Delores

Twenty Bucks
as Melanie

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
as Terrry

Malcolm & Eddie
as Janice Ramos · 3 ep.

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Female Attendant (voice) · 1 ep.

ER
as Wendy Goldman · 27 ep.

Melrose Place
as Linda Cortez · 1 ep.

Tequila and Bonetti
as Lupe · 1 ep.

Nurses
as Angelica · 1 ep.

Seinfeld
as Receptionist · 1 ep.

Wiseguy
as Consuelo Burns · 2 ep.
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
1992