Vanessa Marquez
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.
Movie Appearances
To My Daughter
as Student #1
1990
Night Children
as Runt
1989
Under Suspicion
as Singer (voice)
2000
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
as Yo-Yo
1991
Stand and Deliver
as Ana Delgado
1988
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
as Terrry
1992
Bound by Honor
as Montana's Daughter
1993
Twenty Bucks
as Melanie
1993
Father Hood
as Delores
1993
Fire & Ice
as Wanda
2001
All Lies End in Murder
as Yvonne Valesquez
1997
State of Emergency
as Violetta
1994
Sweet 15
as Lupe
1990
Hit Me
as Housekeeper
1996
Ninety Minutes Later
as Self
2024
TV Appearances
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as The Six Fairies (voice)
1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Female Attendant (voice)
1995
Nurses
as Angelica
1991
Seinfeld
as Receptionist
1989
Tequila and Bonetti
as Lupe
1992
Melrose Place
as Linda Cortez
1992
Malcolm & Eddie
as Janice Ramos
1996
Wiseguy
as Consuelo Burns
1987
ER
as Wendy Goldman
1994