Rosie Perez Scroll down for movie list. Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Dynamic, sassy, fastrising actress who made a memorable screen debut as Spike Lee's girlfriend Tina in 1989's Do the Right Thing (She also danced under the film's opening credits to the song "Fight the Power.") She went on to costar in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth (1991), White Men Can't Jump (1992, terrific as Woody Harrelson's girlfriend whose dream is to appear on TV's "Jeopardy"), and Untamed Heart (1993), and was impressive as an airplanecrash survivor coping with the death of her baby in Fearless (also 1993), which earned her an Oscar nomination. Perez has choreographed many music videos and earned Emmy nominations for her choreography on TV's "In Living Color." More recently, she played Nicolas Cage's wannabe society wife in It Could Happen to You (1994). |  |