Liza Colón-Zayas


Liza Colón-Zayas is an American actress and playwright.

Early life and education

Colón-Zayas was born and raised in The Bronx borough of New York City, and began her career starring in Off-Broadway productions. She broke into mainstream theatre when she wrote, produced, and starred in a one-woman show titled Sistah Supreme, a semi-autobiographical play in which she chronicles growing up as an Latina woman in New York during the 1970s and 1980s.

Career

Colón-Zayas has been a member of the LAByrinth Theatre Company, a New York-based traveling actors' group, since 1992. On stage, she originated the role of Norca in the off-Broadway productions of Our Lady of 121st Street and appeared in In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings. Time Out New York named the latter production one of the ten best plays of 1999.
She has also appeared in television series such as Sex and the City, ', and Blue Bloods episode 124, "Stomping Grounds". She guest starred in Dexter, as a snitch to the detectives investigating the "Santa Muerte killings".
On the large screen, she played a passenger in the film United 93 and Judge Angel Rodriguez in Righteous Kill. In 2016, she played Dawn in the horror film '.

Personal life

Colón-Zayas is married to the actor David Zayas.