I was born in New York City to immigrant parents from Spain, and grew up in midtown Manhattan. I started acting when my mom enrolled me at the age of four in a Spanish-language theatre group at the cultural center that happened to be next to my house. I grew up bilingually; English at school, Spanish at home. I would travel frequently back to Spain to visit my extended family, and at the age of 13, moved back to Spain, to Madrid. I kept acting in plays, mostly in Madrid's community theaters.
In the mid 90’s, I returned to the US to attend Bard College for a BA in Drama/Dance and Philosophy. In 2000, I moved to Portland, OR, briefly worked as an interpreter, and worked with several local indie theater companies Liminal, defunkt and others. After a brief stint back in Spain, in 2003 I returned to NYC to attend Columbia University's MFA Acting program.
Since 2006, I’ve worked in theaters in NYC and around the United States, performing Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and on tour, with companies like Monica Bill Barnes & Co., Red Bull Theater, Classic Stage Company, The Acting Company, Caborca, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, LaMaMa ETC, Berkeley Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Kansas City Rep, Two River Theater, and Cincinnati Playhouse.
In 2009, I began to record audiobooks in English, and since then have over 100 under my belt, reading varied works by authors such as Miguel de Cervantes, William Burroughs, Danielle Steele, Harlan Ellison, Carlos Castaneda, and e e cummings, among many others.
In 2013 I started to to work in Film and TV, starting with the feature film "Home", by Jono Oliver, and the short "Zzzzzzz" by Tarik Karam, which was part of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. Since then, I've been lucky to work on many New York-based TV shows such as Blacklist, Person of Interest, The Good Fight, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary, Mysteries of Laura and Daredevil. In 2026, I played a guest-star role as Judge Luis Thompson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and have since recurred several times.
From 2006 to about 2018, I worked as a freelance stagehand and theatrical electrician for several theaters in NY, most habitually for St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, as well as for Columbia University's Graduate Theatre program.