Aimee Sandimés Garcia López de Ordóñez (born November 28, 1978) is an American actress and writer. She is known for her television roles as
Veronica Palmero on the ABC sitcom ''
George Lopez
George Edward Lopez (born April 23, 1961) is an American comedian and actor. He is known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including Mexican American culture. Lopez has rece ...
'', Yvonne Sanchez on the CBS
period drama
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''
Vegas
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'',
Jamie Batista on the
Showtime
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Film
* ''Showtime'' (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film
* ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur
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* Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Global w ...
drama ''
Dexter'' and Ella Lopez on the Fox/Netflix drama ''
Lucifer
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''.
Early life
Aimee Garcia was born in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Illinois
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.
Her mother, Eloisa, is from
Pachuca
Pachuca (; ote, Nju̱nthe), formally known as Pachuca de Soto, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. It is located in the south-central part of the state. Pachuca de Soto is also the name of the municipality of whi ...
,
Hidalgo
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People
* Hidalgo (nobility), members of the Spanish nobility
* Hidalgo (surname)
Places
Mexico
* Hidalgo (state), in central Mexico
* Hidalgo, Coahuila, a town in the north Mexican state of Coahuila
* Hidalgo, Nuevo Le ...
, Mexico, and graduated from
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
's dental school; her father, Hector, is from
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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, and was in the
U.S. Armed Forces
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.
Garcia started acting in commercials as a child, and participated in theater at seven years old.
She grew up in
Oak Park, Illinois
Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, adjacent to Chicago. It is the 29th-most populous municipality in Illinois with a population of 54,583 as of the 2020 U.S. Census estimate. Oak Park was first settled in 1835 and later incorporated in ...
, where she attended
Fenwick High School.
While in school, she took acting classes at
Piven Theatre Workshop The Piven Theatre Workshop is located in Evanston, Illinois and was founded by Joyce and Byrne Piven. For over 30 years, it has existed both as a professional theatre company and a training center for children and adults. Famous alumni to come out ...
.
She appeared in local plays and musicals during her time at Northwestern University, where she triple majored in economics, journalism, and French.
After graduating, she quit acting for a year and did finance work for a
mutual fund
A mutual fund is a professionally managed investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. The term is typically used in the United States, Canada, and India, while similar structures across the globe include the SICAV i ...
analyst in
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
.
Unsatisfied with the job, she moved to
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, around 2002 to pursue acting as her career.
Career
She portrayed Maria on
The WB
The WB Television Network (for Warner Bros., or the "Frog Network", for its former mascot, Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ...
's ''
Greetings from Tucson
''Greetings from Tucson'' is an American sitcom television series created by Peter Murrieta, which aired on The WB from September 20, 2002 to May 9, 2003, during the 2002-2003 season. The series was executive produced by Rob LaZebnik, Peter Murr ...
'', and appeared in the unaired
pilot episode
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of ''
Global Frequency
''Global Frequency'' is an American comic book Limited series (comics), limited series created and written by Warren Ellis and published by Wildstorm, Wildstorm Productions, an imprint of DC Comics.
It is a science-fiction series set in the prese ...
''. She had a role in the
Disney Channel
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original movie ''
Cadet Kelly
''Cadet Kelly'' is a 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Hilary Duff and Christy Carlson Romano. The film premiered with 7.8 million viewers. It is Duff's second starring film role, her first being ''Casper Meets Wendy''. This was Disney ...
'' (2002), and co-starred, as Lydia, alongside
Anthony Anderson
Anthony Anderson (born August 15, 1970) is an American actor, comedian and game show host. He is best known for his leading roles in drama series such as Marlin Boulet on '' K-Ville'', and as NYPD Detective Kevin Bernard on the NBC crime drama ' ...
in
The WB
The WB Television Network (for Warner Bros., or the "Frog Network", for its former mascot, Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ...
sitcom ''
All About the Andersons
''All About the Andersons'' is an American sitcom television series that originally aired on The WB from September 12, 2003 to February 12, 2004. It was canceled after one season.
Premise
Anthony Anderson is a single father and struggling actor ...
''. In 2006, she began appearing on the series ''
George Lopez
George Edward Lopez (born April 23, 1961) is an American comedian and actor. He is known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including Mexican American culture. Lopez has rece ...
'', playing Lopez's niece.
Garcia starred alongside
Jessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American singer, actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist. After performing in church choirs as a child, Simpson signed with Columbia Records in 1997, aged seventeen. Her debut studio album, '' Swe ...
in the comedy-drama ''
Major Movie Star
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'' (2008). She also played a supporting role in the movie ''
D-War
''D-War'' (Korean: 디워, released in North America as ''Dragon Wars: D-War''), is a 2007 South Korean action-adventure fantasy film written and directed by Shim Hyung-rae, and starring Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, and Elizabeth ...
'' (2007) and narrated the
Adam Sandler
Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, producer and singer. He was a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1990 to 1995, before going on to star in numerous Hollywood films, those of wh ...
film ''
Spanglish
Spanglish (a portmanteau of the words "Spanish" and "English") is any language variety (such as a contact dialect, hybrid language, pidgin, or creole language) that results from conversationally combining Spanish and English. The term is mos ...
'' (2004).
From 2009 to 2010, she was in the cast of the
Peter Berg
Peter Berg (born March 11, 1964) is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy ''Very Bad Things'' (1998), the action comedy ''The Rundown'' (2003), the sports drama '' Friday Night Lig ...
NBC medical drama ''
Trauma
Trauma most often refers to:
* Major trauma, in physical medicine, severe physical injury caused by an external source
* Psychological trauma, a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event
*Traumatic i ...
'', as EMT helicopter pilot Marisa Benez.
Garcia spent three years on
Showtime
Showtime or Show Time may refer to:
Film
* ''Showtime'' (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film
* ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur
Television Networks and channels
* Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Global w ...
's ''
Dexter'' as Jamie Batista, for which she was nominated for a
SAG Award
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for Best Ensemble in Dramatic Television Series.
She played Dr. Jae Kim in
MGM
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's reboot film, ''
RoboCop'' (2014).
In 2016, Garcia was added to the main cast for the second season of the
Fox
Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush'').
Twelve sp ...
television series ''
Lucifer
Lucifer is one of various figures in folklore associated with the planet Venus. The entity's name was subsequently absorbed into Christianity as a name for the devil. Modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage ...
'', playing LAPD forensic scientist Ella Lopez. In 2019, Garcia starred in the independent film ''
El Chicano
El Chicano was an American brown-eyed soul group from Los Angeles, California, whose style incorporated various modern music genres including rock, funk, soul, blues, jazz, and salsa. The group's name was from Chicano, a term for United States ...
'', receiving praise from ''
The Hollywood Reporter
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'' for her performance's "vivid impression".
In 2019, Garcia formed a writing partnership with former
professional wrestler
Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring or ...
AJ Mendez. Their first project was the
comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
series ''GLOW vs. The Babyface'', based on the television series ''
GLOW''; the first of four issues was published by
IDW Publishing
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in November 2019. In 2020, they created the production company Scrappy Heart Productions, dedicated to elevating diverse voices through storytelling.
They went on to co-write the ''
Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules ...
'' four-issue
limited series Limited series may refer to:
*Limited series, individual storylines within an anthology series
*Limited series, a particular run of collectables, usually individually numbered
*Limited series (comics), a comics series with a predetermined number of ...
''
At the Spine of the World''; the first issue was published by IDW in November 2020.
Alongside John Swetman, they co-wrote the screenplay for the 2022
Netflix
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film ''
Blade of the 47 Ronin
''Blade of the 47 Ronin'' is a 2022 American action- fantasy film directed by Ron Yuan, from a script co-written by John Swetnam, Aimee Garcia, and AJ Mendez, and is a sequel to the '' 47 Ronin''. Set 300 years after its predecessor, the movie ...
''.
Personal life
Garcia resides in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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.
On May 4, 2021, the
Chicago Red Stars
The Chicago Red Stars are a professional women's soccer club based in Bridgeview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A founding member of the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league, they have played in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) sin ...
of the
National Women's Soccer League announced that Garcia had joined the women's soccer team's ownership group.
Filmography
Film
Television
Bibliography
* ''GLOW vs. The Babyface'', with
AJ Mendez, illustrated by Hannah Templer (IDW Publishing, June 2020, )
* ''Dungeons & Dragons: At the Spine of the World'', with AJ Mendez, illustrated by Martin Coccolo and Katrina Mae Hao (IDW Publishing, July 2021, )
Accolades
References
External links
*
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1978 births
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Chicago
American actresses of Mexican descent
American actresses of Puerto Rican descent
American film actresses
American television actresses
American voice actresses
Hispanic and Latino American actresses
Living people
Northwestern University alumni
Chicago Red Stars owners