I was a clumsy teenager.  So clumsy that when playing my First Big Part (!), an elderly woman, I stumbled over my own two feet and fell across some furniture and broke several props and a few significant pieces of the set and nearly broke a bone or two.  The audience burst out laughing.  Best laugh of the show thus far.  So I improvised.  It killed.  And I fell passionately in love with acting from that moment for the rest of my life.  I was 14.  I had been acting in commercials and small plays since age 8, but that silly moment where my big feet got the best of me was the one that made me an actor.  That was in Mexico City, where I was born and lived until I decided to move to the states...to study acting, of course.  I got my BFA from Texas State University.  Studied at the Royal Shakespeare Company my Senior year.  Then headed to New York after graduation to work and to study at Circle in the Square, where I met the mentor that changed my life for the second time, Alan Langdon, and many of the people who to this very day continue to constitute my artistic family, becoming collectively The Animus Theatre Company.  After some years in New York doing theater, film, and commercials I got the chance to come to LA to work on FX's "The Bridge."  I loved the city.  So I decided to stay out West.  Now I feel like I largely have the best of all worlds: I go back to New York a few times a year to do theatre, and I live the rest of the year in a place surrounded by nature with incredible weather where I also get to work as an actor (which I still smilingly associate with falling flat on my face while pretending to be someone else.)