Ana Ortiz (born January 25, 1971) is an American actress and singer. She is a native of Manhattan, New York but was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is currently a regular on the ABC dramedy series Ugly Betty, in which she plays the title character's older sister, Hilda Suarez. The role earned her the ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2007. is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Ugly Betty is a television dramedy series starring America Ferrera and Eric Mabius. ... Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe- and Peabody Award-winning American television dramedy series starring America Ferrera, Vanessa Williams, and Eric Mabius, focussing on the life of a character named Betty, who is a good person, although not physically attractive. ... is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... NY redirects here. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... The American Broadcasting Company ( oftenly known as ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Dramedy, a portmanteau of drama and comedy, is a genre of movies and television in which the lines between these very different genres were blurred. ... Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe- and Peabody Award-winning American television dramedy series starring America Ferrera, Vanessa Williams, and Eric Mabius, focussing on the life of a character named Betty, who is a good person, although not physically attractive. ... Beatriz Betty U. Suarez is a central fictional character and heroine of the American dramedy series Ugly Betty. ... Ugly Betty is a television dramedy series starring America Ferrera and Eric Mabius. ... The 2007 ALMA Awards honors the accomplishments made by Hispanics in film and television in 2006. ... The year 2007 in television involves some significant events. ...

Biography

Ortiz is the daughter of Angel L. Ortiz, the first Puerto Rican city councilman in the Philadelphia City Council and a mother who works in Manhattan with autistic children and runs a soup kitchen. City Hall from postcard, c. ...

As a child, Ortiz originally dreamed of becoming a ballerina, and she studied ballet for eight years, until the pain of dancing en pointes forced her to pursue a different artistic discipline, prompting her to pursue a career outside of the world of ballet. Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1943 to 1960 and prima ballerina assoluta from 1960 to 1990. ...

Switching to singing, Ortiz attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (the school of Fame) in New York City and later the University of the Arts in Philadelphia before making her professional stage debut in a regional theater production of "Dangerous Liaisons." Her additional stage credits include portraying Chrissy in a European touring production of Hair, regional theater productions such as "Dog Lady and the Cuban Swimmer" and in the South Coast Repertory Theater's production of "References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot." Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 64th Street. ... Fame was an American television series that ran from 1982 to 1987. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... There are at least two educational institutions called the University of the Arts: University of the Arts London in the United Kingdom University of the Arts in Philadelphia in the United States Universities with very similar names include: Berlin University of the Arts in Germany Chugye University for the Arts... The original poster for the show. ... South Coast Repertory South Coast Repertory (SCR) is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California. ...

After joining LAByrinth Theatre Company ^[1], she appeared off-Broadway in "In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings," which also co-starred Puerto Rican actress Liza Colón-Zayas and was directed by Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and named one of the 10-best plays of 1999 by the magazine Time Out New York. Liza Colón-Zayas (born circa 1972 in New York City, New York, USA) is a Puerto Rican-American actress and playwright. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...

Career

On television, Ortiz's resume includes NYPD Blue, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, Commander In Chief, Boston Legal, ER, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Over There and her first full-time series role, Kristin. and Everybody Loves Raymond NYPD Blue was an Emmy Award-winning hour long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ... A Commander-in-Chief is the commander of a nations military forces or significant element of those forces. ... Boston Legal is an American dramedy television series that began airing on ABC on October 3rd, 2004. ... ER is a long-running, Emmy Award winning American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois. ... The New Adventures of Old Christine is a CBS situation comedy that debuted as a midseason replacement on March 13, 2006, after the highly rated sitcom, Two and a Half Men. ... Over There was an action / drama / war television series that aired on the FX network. ... Everybody Loves Raymond is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS from 1996 to 2005. ...

In addition to her current gig on Ugly Betty she is also active in films, which include starring roles King of L.A. and Tortilla Heaven.

Personal life

Ortiz lives in Los Angeles, California. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, horseback riding, softball, and water sports. She also writes poetry. Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ...

She married musician Noah Lebenzon on June 9, 2007 in Rincón, Puerto Rico.^[2] Rincón is a municipality of Puerto Rico. ...

Trivia

• Won an ALMA Award in 2007 for Best Supporting Actress for her work on Ugly Betty.
• Ortiz is one of three Philadelphians who are regulars on Ugly Betty, the other being Mark Indelicato, who plays her son Justin. Another connection to the city is co-star Becki Newton (who plays Amanda) and who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

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References

External links

• Ana Ortiz at the Internet Movie Database
• Ana Ortiz at TV.com
• Interview from The Philadelphia Inquirer (August 8, 2006)
• "Hiring more women, ethnic minorities pays off for 'Betty'" from Chicago Sun-Times (February 14, 2007)