Detailed Biography

Majandra Delfino , is an Alma Award nominated American actress and singer best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on the television series Roswell.

Biography

Delfino was nicknamed "Majandra" by her elder sister, Marieh, who is also an actress. Marieh couldn't pronounce her full name, and so the nickname stuck. She is half Cuban and half Venezuelan.

She attended Ransom Everglades and New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. She married actor Devon Gummersall in 2007, who played her character's cousin in Roswell. They divorced in 2008.

Film and Television

Delfino started playing Maria Deluca on Roswell, where on hiatus she starred in the small but memorable role of Vanessa in Traffic as well as Natalie in The Secret Life of Girls. She also acted in Reeseville, Celeste in the City, The Tony Danza Show, and R.S.V.P., with Jason Mewes and Glenn Quinn. She played Trudi in the film State's Evidence, which covers the controversial topic of violence in schools. She lost to Mena Suvari for the role of Angela Hayes in the 1999 film American Beauty.

Delfino also stars in a number of episodes of the NBC show Quarterlife, also shown on MySpaceTV, which started airing November 11, 2007.

Music

Delfino sang in several Roswell episodes, such as "Viva Las Vegas", "Cry Your Name", and "Behind the Music". In the summer of 2000, Delfino released three songs onto the internet, "Siren", "Bruises" and "Tattoo", and wrote and produced them in association with "Sci-Fi Lullaby".

On October 31, 2001, Delfino released the EP The Sicks on her own label, Dripfeed, without radio or television airplay. Producer/remixer Justin Lassen created an 11-remix suite with Delfino's masters from The Sicks that was never fully released due to red tape.

She also received attention in France, through her duet with French chanteuse RoBERT, entitled Le Prince Bleu D'Arthelius in which she sings both in English and French.

Her second album, Tarte, was released on April 23, 2007, by her own record company, Red Velvet Cake Records, through her Web site www.majandra.com and can now be purchased through iTunes along with The Sicks.

Discography

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