Roberta Colindrez
Roberta Colindrez | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Colindrez at the 2019 Montclair Film Festival | |
| Born | Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
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Roberta Colindrez (born May 28, 1986) is a Mexican-American actor and writer. She is best known for originating the role of Joan in the musical Fun Home. Additionally, Colindrez is known for roles in the TV shows I Love Dick, Vida, and A League of Their Own, as well as the films Ms. White Light (2019) and Cassandro (2023).
Early life
[edit]Colindrez was born on May 28, 1986 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. She has Argentinian and Honduran heritage.[1][2] Colindrez migrated from Mexico to Houston when she was 5 years old. She lived in Houston for six years then moved to Austin, Texas when she was 10 years old.[3] She first realized she wanted to become an actor at age 12, when she and her brother took a theater class together.[4] She went to Westwood High School, and went on to the Texas State University where she graduated with bachelor's degree in acting.[5] She later moved to New York City.[6] While trying to find work as an actor, she also worked in restaurants and as a church janitor. Colindrez eventually joined the New York Neo-Futurists.[7]
Career
[edit]Colindrez made her off-Broadway debut in 2006, in the Neo-Futurist revue Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. She appeared in several short films and regional theater productions after that, and in 2011 she wrote and starred in the film Otis Under Sky. In 2013, she began playing Joan in the musical Fun Home off-Broadway.[4] The show closed in early 2014, then opened on Broadway in 2015, where it won five Tony Awards and was nominated for seven more.[4]
Colindrez has made guest appearances on several television series. Her performance on I Love Dick was described as a "breakout" in an interview with Vanity Fair.[6]
In 2018, Colindrez joined the cast of HBO's The Deuce as Irene. In 2019, Colindrez joined Vida as Nico.[8]
She also does voice acting work, most notably on the podcast Alice Isn't Dead,[9] and writes for the stage.[4]
In 2020, Colindrez joined the cast of Amazon's A League of Their Own, about the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, as the character Lupe.[10][11]
Colindrez also originated the role of the Farmer in a 2022 workshop of the first act of Césaire José Carroll-Domínguez's epic historical play Spreckles which premiered in the 2022 Beyond The Box performance festival in Marfa, Texas with the Marfa Live Arts group in the Crowley Theater.
Personal life
[edit]Colindrez identifies as queer[4][12] and butch.[13]
Colindrez became close friends with Bobbi Salvör Menuez on the set of I Love Dick.[6] Menuez gave Colindrez a stick and poke tattoo as a memento of their friendship.[6]
Credits
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | One Dollar Poem | Short | |
| 2011 | Otis Under Sky | Ursula | Also writer |
| 2013 | Beautiful Dreamer | Catherina | Short |
| The Artist's Assistant | Justine | Short | |
| 2014 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Broadway Woman on Street | |
| 2019 | Ms. White Light | Lex Cordova | [3] |
| Friends Like That | Alex | Short | |
| 2022 | Unidentified Objects | Lola Nelson | |
| 2023 | Cassandro | Sabrina |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012–2014 | Girls | Tako | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | F to 7th | Baby | Episode: "Down to Zero" |
| Gotham | Female Detective | Episode: "Pilot" | |
| Unforgettable | Pam Lisotta | Episode: "Throwing Shade" | |
| Boardwalk Empire | Episode: "Golden Days for Boys and Girls" | ||
| 2015 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self/Joan | Episode: "Ed Helms/Alison Bechdel/Fun Home/Brad Wilk" |
| 2016–2017 | I Love Dick | Devon | 8 episodes[4][14] |
| 2018 | The Good Fight | FBI Agent Grace | Episode: "Day 492" |
| Home | Roberta Colindrez | Episode: "Home on the Range" | |
| 2018–2019 | The Deuce | Irene | 12 episodes |
| 2019 | Mr. Robot | Happyhardonhenry806 | Episode: "404 Not Found" |
| 2019–2020 | Vida | Nico Silva | 14 episodes |
| 2020 | Interrogation | Detective Boyd | Episode: "Det. Dave Russell vs Chris Keller 1983"[15] |
| Mrs. America | Jules | Episode: "Phyllis & Fred & Brenda & Marc" | |
| Monsterland | Shawn Greene | Episode: "Plainfield, Illinois"[16] | |
| 2021 | The Harper House | Tonya Acosta (voice) | 5 episodes |
| High Herstory | The Storyteller/Ellen Ochoa | 2 episodes | |
| 2022 | A League of Their Own | Lupe Garcia | 8 episodes |
| 2024 | Eric | Ronnie | Miniseries[17] |
Theater
[edit]- Water, NPR Playhouse
- The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill: Vol. 2
- Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, off-Broadway, 2006
- Song for the Disappeared, Sundance Theater Lab
- Fun Home, Joan, off-Broadway, Sep. 30, 2013 – Jan. 12, 2014
- Mala Hierba, Maritza, Second Stage Theater, 2014
- Fun Home, Joan, Broadway, Apr. 19, 2015 – September, 2016
- Hamlet, Rosencrantz, off-Broadway, 2017
- Spreckles, Marfa Live Arts, 2022
Podcasts
[edit]- Alice Isn't Dead, 6 episodes, 2016–2017
- It Makes a Sound, Pam Orland, 1 episode, 2018[18]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Yohana Desta (May 12, 2017). "I Love Dick Breakout Roberta Colindrez Is Raising Eyebrows and Breaking Barriers". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
- ^ Alex Velázquez (July 31, 2018). "Queer Latinx Heartthrob Roberta Colindrez Joins the Cast of Vida". Into. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
- ^ a b Leonelli, Elisa (April 22, 2020). "Roberta Colindrez". Cultural Weekly. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "CHANGE MAKERS: A Photographic Portrait Series by Jena Cumbo". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved June 6, 2025.
- ^ Wakeman, Gregory (August 22, 2022). "Roberta Colindrez: From Class Clown to the Baseball Diamond". The Texas Observer. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
- ^ a b c d Yohana Desta (May 12, 2017). "I Love Dick Breakout Roberta Colindrez Is Raising Eyebrows and Breaking Barriers". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
- ^ Wakeman, Gregory (August 22, 2022). "Roberta Colindrez: From Class Clown to the Baseball Diamond". The Texas Observer. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
- ^ Gilchrist, Tracy E. (June 1, 2020). "Roberta Colindrez on Vida's Legacy, Depiction of Butch Bodies on TV". Advocate. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
- ^ Alex Velázquez (July 31, 2018). "Queer Latinx Heartthrob Roberta Colindrez Joins the Cast of Vida". Into. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
- ^ Petski, Denise (February 14, 2020). "'A League Of Their Own' Adds Chanté Adams, Roberta Colindrez, Melanie Field As Amazon Firms Up Pilot Cast". Deadline. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
- ^ Escobar, Cristina (August 25, 2022). "Roberta Colindrez Defies and Inhabits the Gay-Latina Label in "A League of Their Own"". Popsugar. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
- ^ Gwen Aviles (May 24, 2019). "Team behind Vida wants to 'complicate' queerness on TV". NBC News. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
- ^ Kerry Manders (April 13, 2020). "The Butches and Studs Who've Defied the Male Gaze". New York Times. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- ^ I Love Dick at IMDb
- ^ "Interrogation" Det. Dave Russell vs Chris Keller 1983 (TV Episode 2020) - IMDb, retrieved November 1, 2020
- ^ "Monsterland Season 1, Episode 5 explained: 'Plainfield, Illinois'". Show Snob. October 4, 2020. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
- ^ Otterson, Joe (February 3, 2023). "Benedict Cumberbatch-Led Netflix Limited Series 'Eric' Rounds Out Main Cast". Variety. Retrieved April 3, 2023.
- ^ "It Makes a Sound". January 20, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2019 – via YouTube.
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- Living people
- 1986 births
- American stage actresses
- American musical theatre actresses
- American television actresses
- American people of Argentine descent
- American people of Honduran descent
- Mexican stage actresses
- Mexican musical theatre actresses
- Mexican television actresses
- Mexican people of Argentine descent
- Mexican people of Honduran descent
- 21st-century American actresses
- 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century Mexican actresses
- 21st-century Mexican women writers
- Mexican queer people
- American queer actresses
- Mexican LGBTQ actors
- Mexican LGBTQ writers
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- LGBTQ Hispanic and Latino American people
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