Saundra Santiago (born April 13, 1957 in The Bronx, New York) is an American actress, best known for her role as Detective Gina Calabrese on the 1980s TV show Miami Vice. April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th) - Land 122,409 km² - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Miami Vice was a popular, innovative television series (five seasons on NBC from 1984-1989) starring Don Johnson (James Sonny Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Ricardo Rico Tubbs) as two Miami police detectives working undercover. ...
SaundraSantiago (born April 13, 1957 in The Bronx, New York) is an American actress, best known for her role as Detective Gina Calabrese on the 1980s hit television show Miami Vice.
Santiago was a popular figure on campus while a student at the University of Miami; many remember her as a bubbly and perky part-time waitress at the campus pub, The Rathskeller (affectionately known in the UM community as "The Rat").
Santiago's breakthrough role was in a performance of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge on Broadway, and she would go on to star in Marvin Hamlisch's musical Smile as well as seminal hip hop movie Beat Street.