Vanessa Marquez

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Dec 21, 1968 (56 years old)
Death date
Aug 30, 2018

Vanessa Marquez

Known For

All Lies End in Murder
Movie 1997

All Lies End in Murder

A policeman's wife suspects he is corrupt.

State of Emergency
1h 30m
Movie 1994

State of Emergency

Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an unorthodox procedure to try to save a patient, and finds himself in trouble in consequence.

Twenty Bucks
1h 31m
Movie 1993

Twenty Bucks

A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

Father Hood
1h 35m
Movie 1993

Father Hood

Deadbeat dad kidnaps his kids from the bus to an abusive foster home and they go on a run. The cops are after them, they bicker constantly and his idea of a way out is grim, yet this dangerous ride might just turn them into a family.

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
1h 25m
Movie 1992

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

When Kate Sullivan storms a hostage situation, the whole incident is captured on tape by an unscrupulous media crew who edit the footage to show her killing a helpless victim. "Maniac Cop" takes it upon himself to exact revenge upon those who smeared her name.

To My Daughter
1h 35m
Movie 1990

To My Daughter

A mother is haunted by the death of one of her children which has an effect on the surviving siblings in this fact-based drama.

Sweet 15
2h 0m
Movie 1990

Sweet 15

Nothing is more important to Mexican-American Marta Delacruz than her quinceanera -- the traditional 15th birthday celebration that symbolically ushers a young girl into adulthood. Marta is understandably angry and resentful when her father cancels the gala event, but her outlook changes completely when she accidentally uncovers her father's secret: He never became a U.S. citizen.

Stand and Deliver
1h 43m
Movie 1988

Stand and Deliver

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

Biography

Vanessa Marquez was born on December 21, 1968 in Los Angeles County, California. She decided that she wanted to be an actress after she first saw The Wizard of Oz (1939) when she was only 3 or 4. She made her film debut as Ana Delgado in Stand and Deliver in 1988. In the Nineties Miss Marquez was very much in demand as an actress, appearing in such films as Twenty Bucks (1993), Bound by Honor (1993, also known as Blood In, Blood Out), and Father Hood (1993). On television she guest starred on such shows as Wiseguy, Seinfeld, Nurses, and Melrose Place. She appeared in the first three seasons on the hit TV show ER in the role of Nurse Wendy Goldman. Vanessa Marquez died on August 30, 2018 in South Pasadena, California.

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