Dania Ramirez Profile

Name: Dania Ramirez
Birth Name: Dania Ramirez
Birth Date: November 8, 1979
Birth Place: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Sex: Female
Nationality: Dominican-American
Height: 5' 4½" (1.64 m)
Measurements: 34-28-33

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Dania Ramirez Quotes

I'm originally from the Dominican Republic, and to have the opportunity to play a Dominican character and speak my native language, it's an exhilarating experience.
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We really get along well, so we hang out more outside of set than anything. I got an opportunity to hang out with a few people who all got sent on [the Heroes summer] world tour. For my leg of the tour, I was hanging out with Zach [Quinto], James Kyson Lee and my little boy Noah [Gray-Cabey]. He's so cute.
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I'm the middle. There are all girls in my family. I was like the boy, with sports.
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Dania Ramirez Biography

Ramirez was born on November 8, 1979 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. As a child, Dania knew she wanted to become an actress, so much so that she entertained her family by reenacting Spanish soap operas. While working in a convenience store in New York, she was discovered by a modeling scout, who helped the 15-year-old Dania appear in a soda commercial. While attending Montclair State University, she was one of the best volleyball players on the team. However, when she graduated in 1999, Ramirez moved to Los Angeles to pursue professional acting and attended the Actor’s Workshop in New York City under Flo Greenberg.

During the early years of Dania’s career, she had a successful run as a print and TV model. In 1997, when Ramirez met director Spike Lee, she was cast as an extra in the HBO film, “Subway Stories.” Soon after, she appeared in Jay-Z’s music video for the 1998 song “Streets is Watching.” By the start of 2000, her acting career started to pick up and she was cast in Spike Lee’s 2002 movie, “25th Hour,” and appeared on the seventh season of the UPN hit series, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

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About Dania Ramirez

Dania Ramirez started her career on a small role for a soda commercial after being discovered in a New York City convenience store at age 15. She became a successful print model and switched to TV commercials and big-screen features. When Ramirez met director Spike Lee, she was cast in his 1997 HBO feature film, “Subway Stories”, which led to two more collaborations with Lee – one in 2002 for the movie “25th Hour” and the other for the 2004 movie, “She Hate Me”. She also appeared in low-budget films like “The Ecology of Love” and “Cross Bronx” in 2004 as well as a TV-movie “Romy & Michele: In the Beginning” in 2005.

Ramirez has worked on supporting roles for movies like the 2004 “Fat Albert”, the action 2006 “X-Men: The Last Stand” and the 2007 movie “Illegal Tender”. She also appeared in several popular TV series, including “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” in 2003, “The Sopranos” in 2006 and “Heroes” in 2007. Ramirez also worked with four films in 2008 – “Ball Don’t Lie”, “Brooklyn to Manhattan”, “The Fifth Commandment” and “Quarantine”. She has also appeared in several music videos, including Jay-Z’s “Streets is Watching” in 1998, LL Cool J’s “Hush in 2005 and Santana’s “Into the Night” in 2007.