Rosie PerezFilmography

Born:: September 6, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Brooklyn-born actress/choreographer Rosie Perez attended Los Angeles City College before making the cattle-call rounds for dancing jobs. She worked a few seasons with the TV variety series Soul Train, then went on to perform at the LA club Funky Reggae. Here she was spotted by director Spike Lee...Read More

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The Hero of Color City

Actors: Christina Ricci, Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson, Arsenio Hall

Synopsis: Exodus Film Group presents this computer-animated children's film starring the voices of Christina Ricci, Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson, and Arsenio Hall. The plot details a revolt by a group of crayons who band together to protect their city from an evil villain plotting to strip their world of Read More

1/1/10
Pineapple Express

Actors: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny R. McBride

Synopsis: Critically acclaimed director David Gordon Green takes a break from the brooding drama that defined such early efforts as George Washington and Undertow for this action-flavored buddy comedy concerning two pot-smoking friends (Seth Rogen and James Franco) who unwittingly become involved with a Read More

8/6/08
The Take

Actors: John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez, Tyrese Gibson, Bobby Cannavale, Laurence Mason, Yul Vázquez

Synopsis: Music video director Brad Furman teams with Josh and Jonas Pate, the creators of the NBC series Surface, for this independent drama tracing an armored truck driver's efforts to track down the thief who shot him during a heist, changing his life forever. John Leguizamo stars as the driver who must Read More

4/11/08
Just Like the Son

Actors: Mark Webber, Antonio Ortiz, Brendan Sexton III, Rosie Perez, Dylan Blue

Synopsis: A petty criminal's attempt to turn his life around takes both him and a young boy on an unexpected journey in this independent drama. Twentysomething Daniel Carter (Mark Webber) has been in trouble with the law ever since he was a kid, and his latest misadventure has led him to performing Read More

2006
Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas!

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Rosie Perez, Sixto Ramos, Carmen Serrano, Chema Soto, Bobbito Garcia

Synopsis: Actress Rosie Perez makes her directorial debut with this documentary about her heritage, Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas! (I'm Puerto Rican, Just So You Know!), which she co-directed with acclaimed documentarian Liz Garbus (The Farm: Angola, USA). Starting with the focal point of New York Read More

2006
Lackawanna Blues

Actors: S. Epatha Merkerson, Julie Benz, Robert A. Bradley, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Kathleen Chalfant

Synopsis: A young boy grows up among a makeshift family of oddballs and dreamers in this adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's acclaimed one-man show. Ruben Junior (Marcus Carl Franklin) is a young boy who was born in the late '40s into a family that started crumbling not long after he was born. Ruben Read More

2005
All the Invisible Children

Actors: Adam Bila, Elysee Rounamba, Rodrigue Ouattara, Ahmed Ouedraogo, Harouna Ouedraogo

Synopsis: Omnibus films attained renewed popularity during the 1990s and 2000s; this particular seven-episode film-a-sketch arrived during that period, and involved several top-tiered international filmmakers including John Woo, Spike Lee, Ridley Scott, Emir Kusturica and three others. Each helmer was asked Read More

2005
Go Diego Go! [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Jake Toranzo-Szymanski, Constanza Sperakis, Rosie Perez, Keeler Sandhaus, Thomas Sharkey

Synopsis: This spinoff of the popular interactive cartoon series Dora the Explorer was more adventure-oriented than its comparatively sedate role model. The title character was Dora's cousin, eight-year-old Diego Martinez. Despite his age and size, Diego could easily pass as Latino "Indiana Jones", his Read More

2005
In the Company of Women

Actors: Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko, Patricia Clarkson, Jodie Foster, Shari Frilot

Synopsis: Gini Reticker and Lesli Klainberg direct the 74-minute documentary In the Company of Women, a production of the Independent Film Channel. The film offers an introduction to the major women of independent filmmaking, starting in the 1980s. It includes commentary from directors Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko Read More

2004
V-Day: Until the Violence Stops

Synopsis: First-time filmmaker Abby Epstein directs Until the Violence Stops, an hour-long documentary capturing the impact of V-Day in five different international communities. Following the success of Eve Ensler's award-winning play The Vagina Monologues, V-Day was created as a global movement to end Read More

2003
Human Nature

Actors: Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Video director Michel Gondry and scriptwriter Charles Kaufman -- who shot to fame after penning Being John Malkovich -- collaborate on this bizarre fable about human behavior in and out of society. The film opens by quickly introducing the three leads -- Lila (Patricia Arquette) who is locked away Read More

4/12/02
Widows

Actors: Mercedes Ruehl, Rosie Perez, Brooke Shields, N'Bushe Wright, Jay O. Sanders

Synopsis: Adapted by Lynda LaPlante from her own 1983 British miniseries of the same name, the ABC four-parter Widows was set in motion by a bungled art heist, in which three thieves (and a possible fourth) were betrayed and killed. Rather than grieve over their fallen husbands, the three widows of the Read More

2002
What I Want My Words to Do to You

Actors: Mary Alice, Glenn Close, Eve Ensler, Hazelle Goodman, Rosie Perez

Synopsis: The documentary What I Want My Words to Do to You offers a look at some actual rehabilitation at a women's maximum security prison. Directors Judith Katz, Madeleine Gavin, and Gary Sunshine used high-definition video cameras to capture an emotional reformation process for several incarcerated Read More

2002
King of the Jungle

Actors: Julie Carmen, Cliff Gorman, John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez, Justin Pierce

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's seminal 1975 drama Taxi Driver informs this tale of a neglected, Upper West Side outcast who slowly devolves into a potential murderer. John Leguizamo stars as Seymour, the mentally-challenged self-proclaimed "king" of the film's title. He's still in the care of his mother Mona (Julie Carmen Read More

11/9/01
The Road to El Dorado

Actors: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Dreamworks SKG's second feature-length animated film blends comedy and drama in an unusual historical adventure. Two genial swindlers working as stable hands stow away with Cortez, the legendary Spanish conquistador, as he searches for El Dorado, the lost City of Gold. Luck smiles on the two con Read More

3/31/00
Happily Ever After Fairy Tales: Thumbelina

2000
The 24-Hour Woman

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Rosie Perez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Patti LuPone, Karen Duffy, Diego Serrano

Synopsis: Writer/director Nancy Savoca, who wrote and directed Household Saints and True Love, handles the same duties in this tale of Grace Santos (Rosie Perez). The producer of a New York City local morning show targeted at women, Grace has an active professional life under the watch of her executive Read More

1999
Dance with the Devil

Actors: Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross, Aimee Graham, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: The title character of this Alex de la Iglesia film made her first appearance in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and was originally played by Isabella Rossellini. Rosie Perez takes over the role in this blend of black comedy, graphic sex and violence, voodoo, and weirdness. Perdita Durango is Read More

1997
A Brother's Kiss

Actors: Nick Chinlund, Michael Raynor, Cathy Moriarty, Rosie Perez, Marisa Tomei

Synopsis: Mick (Michael Raynor) and Lex (Nick Chinlund) are a pair of brothers who grew up in Harlem under circumstances that were difficult at best. Their mother Doreen (Cathy Moriarty) was a diabetic with a drinking problem and difficulty in saying no to men. While she wasn't a prostitute, she grew Read More

1997
Subway Stories

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rosie Perez, Mercedes Ruehl, Lili Taylor

Synopsis: Subways provide the common setting for this modern anthology comprised of distinct vignettes made by ten of Hollywood's top directors and featuring some of Tinseltown's most popular actors. The episodes are based on real stories submitted by scores of subway regulars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

1997
Happily Ever After Fairy Tales: Hansel and Gretel

Synopsis: Happily Ever After introduces this ethnically diverse version of a classic tale. When Hanselito and Gretelita become lost in a tropical wilderness, they pool their wits to find shelter. When it turns out the house made of candy is home to a witch, the two manage to escape by working together. The Read More

1995
Frasier: Roz in the Doghouse

Synopsis: KACL's gonzo sports-show host Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe (Dan Butler) asks Roz (Peri Gilpin) to become his producer. Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is convinced that Bulldog is less interested in Roz's talents than in her body and says so in loud, snide, and snotty words. To spite Frasier, Roz decides to Read More

1995
It Could Happen to You

Actors: Red Buttons, Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez, Wendell Pierce, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: Loosely based on a true story, this uneven romantic comedy depicts the unexpected way in which a winning lottery ticket unites a pair of strangers. Waitress Yvonne (Bridget Fonda) first meets police officer Charlie (Nicolas Cage) when he eats in her restaurant. Realizing that he doesn't have Read More

1994
Somebody to Love

Actors: Rosie Perez, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Quinn, Michael de Lorenzo, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Hollywood wannabes struggle to succeed while striving for relationships that are doomed to fail in this gloomy comedy-drama from writer-director Alexandre Rockwell. Rosie Perez stars as Mercedes, a transplanted New Yorker now living in East L.A. and taxi dancing at a seedy Hollywood strip joint. Read More

1994
Untamed Heart

Actors: Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Kyle Secor, Willie Garson

Synopsis: More than a decade after 1982's Six Weeks, director Tony Bill once again explored romance, sentimentality, and dying young with Untamed Heart. The film stars Christian Slater as Adam, an shy and awkward busboy who saves waitress Caroline (Marisa Tomei) from being raped in a park late one night. Read More

1993
Fearless

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Hulce, John Turturro

Synopsis: Adapted by screenwriter Rafael Yglesias from his own novel, Fearless explores the complex struggle back to mental health of post-traumatic stress disorder victim Max Klein (Jeff Bridges). One of few survivors of a fatal plane crash, Klein remains calm and assists other survivors out of the burning Read More

1993
Night on Earth

Actors: Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Roberto Benigni, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lisanne Falk, Béatrice Dalle

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch's deadpan comedy-of-the-night is a collection of five vignettes taking place in the enclosed space of a cab ride, each occurring simultaneously in five different cities and five different time zones -- Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. The Los Angeles episode Read More

5/1/92
White Men Can't Jump

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell, Cylk Cozart

Synopsis: Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) wrote and directed the basketball-oriented seriocomedy White Men Can't Jump. Woody Harrelson plays Billy Hoyle, a white con artist who hustles basketball games with black players, lulling his victims into the misguided notion that white men can't match up with black Read More

3/27/92
Criminal Justice

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Grey, Rosie Perez, Anthony LaPaglia, Tony Todd

Synopsis: Most of this provocative made-for-cable television drama, takes place in the courtroom where a young white, female attorney tries to prosecute an African American ex-con for the assault of a prostitute. He is not only the prime suspect, he is also the only witness. Unfortunately, he may not get a Read More

1990
Do the Right Thing

Crew: Choreography

Actors: Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, Richard Edson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Bill Nunn, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY. Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin' deejay (Samuel L. Jackson) spins the platters Read More

6/30/89