Bertila Damas

Bertila Damas is a Cuban-born American actress.

Career

Damas began her career in Miami, where she worked in Spanish-language theater while in college. She was later accepted at the Circle in the Square Theater School in New York City. There, she met Terry Hayden, who got her interested in The Actors Studio, where she resided until Lee Strasberg's death. Afterward, she studied with Stella Adler.[1]

Bertila has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and the regional theater scene, including her Broadway debut playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet for Joseph Papp on Broadway, directed by Estelle Parsons; Yerma in Yerma at the Arena Stage; Clemencia in Electricidad at the Mark Taper Forum;[2][3] and Marta in Eduardo Machado's Fabiola at Theatre for the New City in NYC. She is a Garland Awards recipient.

Her films include Nothing but Trouble, Mi Vida Loca, and Fires Within.[4] Her TV credits include The John Larroquette Show, King of the Hill, NYPD Blue, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Grimm.[5]

On international Spanish television, Bertila is known for her role as the villainous Marta on Angelica, mi vida for Telemundo. She has been seen and heard in dozens of commercials and voice-overs in both Spanish and English.

She has served on the SAG board of directors (2010–2012) and on the SAG-AFTRA board (2012–2015). Since 2010, she has been the SAG–AFTRA national chair of the Ethnic Employment Opportunities Committee.[5]

Damas recurs as Camila Santiago on NBC sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

gollark: "A hazmat suit is required to visit this location. This is necessary to avoid dying immediately."
gollark: "Welcome to the GreenGlow™ nuclear waste dumping site. Do not swim in the pools of melted reactor cores."
gollark: You can then dump the corium in some place and create a wonderful environmental travesty.
gollark: I had the idea of using an RFTools builder to just dynamically copy replacement cells on as the reactor begins to fail.
gollark: But... extreme reactors!

References
  1. "Bertila Damas: Deep, Mysterious and Diginified - - LatinHeat Entertainment". www.latinheat.com.
  2. Miller, Daryl H. (8 April 2005). "Modern life jolted by myth" – via LA Times.
  3. Hirschhorn, Joel (7 April 2005). "Electricidad".
  4. "Actress Bertila Damas is proud of her Cuban heritage,..."
  5. "Bertila Damas: No Nonsense, All Class - Se Fija!". 31 October 2012.



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