Rose Portillo
Rose Portillo is an accomplished American actress/writer/director/educator and visual artist whose stage and film career began with a lead role in Luis Valdez's 'Zoot Suit' (original L.A. and Broadway productions and the film). She played the role of Mother in the critically acclaimed 2017 revival, starring Demián Bichir. She was Associate Director of About Productions, now celebrating 24 years of creating original Theaterworks and founded the company's Young Theaterworks, which serves students in Continuation/Options High Schools primarily in East Los Angeles. Since appearing in Theresa Chavez's solo play, L.A. Real, she has directly partnered with Chavez (the company's Artistic Director) on at least 10 critically acclaimed productions.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Peak Season as
- 2022 · Zootopia+ as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
- 2022 · That's Amor as Julietta
- 2021 · Encanto as Señora Guzmán (voice)
- 2019 · Seis Manos as (voice)
- 2019 · Undone as Speech Teacher
- 2018 · The Rookie as Emilia Lopez
- 2017 · Marvel's Runaways as Eileen
- 2003 · NCIS as Sheriff Jo
- 1995 · ...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him as Florentina
- 1995 · Sliders as Sister Celine
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as María Parades
- 1991 · Palomino as Donna
- 1991 · Home Improvement as Woman #2
- 1990 · Capital News as Officer Bates
- 1988 · Eisenhower and Lutz as Millie Zamora
- 1985 · The Mean Season as Kathy Vasquez
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Maria
- 1984 · Best Kept Secrets as Mrs. Zepeta
- 1982 · Seguin as Gertudis
- 1982 · Victims as Pilar Galloway
- 1981 · Zoot Suit as Della
- 1977 · Panic in Echo Park as
- 1977 · Exorcist II: The Heretic as Spanish Girl
- Future · Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip as Lidia Garcia