Liza Colon-Zayas Biography
Liza Colon-Zayas is an American actress and Playwright. She is best known for playing Tina on The Bear.
How old is Liza Colon-Zayas? – Age
She is 51 years old as of 2023. According to source the actress was born on 1972 in The Bronx, New York City.
Liza Colon-Zayas Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches tall.
Liza Colon-Zayas parents – Family
Colon-Zayas was born as Liza Maria Colon to an African-American mother while her father is of European descent. She is not the only child of her parents and has four siblings- two brothers and two sisters. Although her educational history is limited, she did attend college. Her ethnicity includes African-American and Caucasian.
Is Liza Colon-Zayas married? – Husband
Liza is married to actor David Zayas, known for his role as Angel Batista on Showtime’s Dexter.
Liza Colon-Zayas Career
She broke into mainstream theatre when she wrote, produced, and starred in one-woman show titled Sistah Supreme, a semi-autobiographical play in which she chronicles growing up as a Latina woman in New York during 1970s and 1980s. Colon-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 121 st Street and appeared in Arabia, We’d All Be Kings.
The American actress guest starred in Dexter as the mother of Yasmin Aragon, a snitch to the detective investigating the Santa Muerte Killings. On the big screen, she played a passage in the film United 93 and Judge Angel Rodriguez in Righteous Kill 2008. In 2016, Liza played Dawn in the Horror film The Purge: Election Year. Colon-Zayas has also appeared in TV series such as Sex and the City, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Blue Bloods episode 124.
Liza Colon-Zayas Net Worth
The star has a net worth of $4 million.
Liza Colon-Zayas Movie
1995 – The Keeper
2002 – Unfaithful
2004 – Keane
2005 – Heights
2006 – Freedomland
2007 – Goodbye Baby
2008 – Righteous Kill
2011 – Margaret
2012 – Won’t Back Down
2015 – The Stockroom
2016 – All at Once
2017 – Lost Cat Corona
2018 – Breaking Brooklyn
2021 – Naked Singularity
2022 – Allswell
2023 – Cat Person
Liza Colon-Zayas TV Shows
1994 – New York Undercover
2000 – Deadline
2001 – Third Watch
2004 – Sex and the City
2004 – Hope & Faith
2006 – The Bedford Diaries
2008 – House
2009 – Taking Chance
2009 – Nurse Jackie
2010 – Dexter
2011 – Hung
2015 – Get Some
2016 – Blue Bloods
2017 – Bull
2019 – Proven Innocent
2019 – David Makes Man
2021 – In Treatment
2022-present – The Bear