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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

24

Gender

Female

Birthday

1968-12-21

Day of Death

2018-08-30 (50 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles County, California, USA

Also Known As

Vanessa Marquez

Biography

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 the hit TV show ER in the role of Nurse Wendy Goldman. Vanessa Marquez died on August 30, 2018 in South Pasadena, California.

Known For

Acting

To My Daughter

1990

To My Daughter

as

Student #1

Night Children

1989

Night Children

as

Runt

Under Suspicion

2000

Under Suspicion

as

Singer (voice)

Stand and Deliver

1988

Stand and Deliver

as

Ana Delgado

Bound by Honor

1993

Bound by Honor

as

Montana's Daughter

Twenty Bucks

1993

Twenty Bucks

as

Melanie

Father Hood

1993

Father Hood

as

Delores

Fire & Ice

2001

Fire & Ice

as

Wanda

State of Emergency

1994

State of Emergency

as

Violetta

All Lies End in Murder

1997

All Lies End in Murder

as

Yvonne Valesquez

Sweet 15

1990

Sweet 15

as

Lupe

Hit Me

1996

Hit Me

as

Housekeeper

Nurses

Nurses

as

Angelica

Seinfeld

Seinfeld

as

Receptionist

Melrose Place

Melrose Place

as

Linda Cortez

Malcolm & Eddie

Malcolm & Eddie

as

Janice Ramos

Wiseguy

Wiseguy

as

Consuelo Burns

ER

ER

as

Wendy Goldman

Production

Crew

Directing