Rosie Perez

Actor, Additional Crew, Director

Birthdate: Sep 6, 1964

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Rosie Perez was born in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, to Lydia Perez and Ismael Serrano, a merchant marine. She is of Puerto Rican descent. Rosie attended Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, Queens, New York, and later enrolled at Los Angeles City College in Los Angeles, California. Rosie Perez was in her second year of college, and just about to move back to New York from Los Angeles. Her friends had given her a going-away party. When Spike Lee proposed that she work in his film Do the Right Thing (1989), she accepted. It would be her first major acting role. She went on play the supporting role of Carla Rodrigo in Peter Weir's Fearless (1993), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. (She lost to Anna Paquin for The Piano (1993).)

Rosie Perez Movies

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Previous (36)

2021 |
With/in: Volume 1
2020 |
Have a Good Trip
2020 |
The Last Thing He Wanted
2020 |
Inside the Rain
Inside the Rain
2020
TV-MA
1h 30m
Comedy, Drama, Romance
4.6
Facing expulsion from college over a misunderstanding, a bipolar student indulges his misery at a strip club where he befriends a gorgeous, intelligent, outrageous woman and they hatch a madcap scheme to prove his innocence.
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asDr. Holloway
2020 |
Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey
2020
1h 49m
Action, Comedy, Crime
6.1
After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroines Black Canary, Huntress, and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
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asRenee Montoya
2019 |
The Dead Don’t Die
The Dead Don’t Die
2019
R
1h 44m
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
5.4
The focus is on the sleepy small town of Centerville where the dead become undead.
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asPosie Juarez
2017 |
Active Adults
2016 |
Muhammad Ali: A Life
2016 |
The Take
The Take
2016
R
1h 32m
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
6.3
A young pickpocket and an unruly CIA agent team up on an anti-terrorist mission in France.
2016 |
Five Nights in Maine
Five Nights in Maine
2016
Other
1h 22m
Drama
4.9
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.
asAnn
2016 |
Puerto Ricans in Paris
Puerto Ricans in Paris
2016
R
1h 22m
Comedy, Crime
5.4
Two Puerto Rican NYPD detectives head to Paris to track down a stolen handbag.
asGloria
2014 |
Fugly!
2014 |
The Hero of Color City
2013 |
Gods Behaving Badly
2013 |
The Counselor
The Counselor
2013
R
1h 57m
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
5.4
A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.
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asRuth
2012 |
Won’t Back Down
Won’t Back Down
2012
PG
2h 1m
Drama
6.4
Two determined mothers, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children.
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2011 |
Brooklyn Boheme
2008 |
Pineapple Express
2008 |
Pineapple Express
Pineapple Express
2008
R
1h 51m
Action, Comedy, Crime
6.9
A process server and his marijuana dealer wind up on the run from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after he witnesses his dealer's boss murder a competitor while trying to serve papers on him.
asCarol, Female Cop
2006 |
Just Like the Son
2006 |
Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo sepas!
2003 |
Until the Violence Stops
2003 |
What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices from Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison
2000 |
King of the Jungle
2001 |
Riding in Cars with Boys
2000 |
The Road to El Dorado
1999 |
The 24 Hour Woman
1998 |
Louis & Frank
1997 |
Perdita Durango
1994 |
Somebody to Love
1994 |
It Could Happen to You
1993 |
Fearless
1993 |
Untamed Heart
1991 |
Night on Earth
1992 |
White Men Can't Jump
1989 |
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing
1989
R
2h
Comedy, Drama
7.9
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
asTina

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2015 |
Home
Home
2015
PG
1h 34m
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
6.5
Oh, a lovable misfit alien, runs away from his planet and takes shelter on Earth, where he befriends Tip, an adventurous young girl who is on a quest to find her displaced mother Lucy.
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