Stephanie Sigman is a Mexican-American actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 2011 Mexican crime drama film ''
Miss Bala''. She has gone on to appear in ''
Pioneer
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'' (2013), ''
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'' (2015), ''
Going Under
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'' (2016), and ''
Annabelle: Creation'' (2017). On television, Sigman starred in ''
Narcos
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'' (2015) and
''S.W.A.T'' (2017) for the first and second seasons of both series.
Early life and family
Sigman was born in
Ciudad Obregón
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,
Sonora
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, Mexico, to a Mexican mother and an American father, Lee Sigman, a
New York Yankees
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scout from Kansas. She is a U.S. citizen through her father.
Her brother, baseball player Kenneth Ray Sigman, was formerly married to actress
Barbara Mori
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.
Career
Sigman began her career appearing on Mexican television, before making her film debut in ''Rio de Oro''. In 2011, she played the leading role of Laura Guerrero in the Mexican crime drama film, ''
Miss Bala''. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
84th Academy Awards
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,
but it did not make the final shortlist.
Sigman was nominated for a
Dublin Film Critics' Circle Award in 2011 for her performance in film. The following year, she played
Catalina Aguado in the Canadian documentary film ''
Flight of the Butterflies
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''. In 2013, Sigman co-starred in the Norwegian thriller ''
Pioneer
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In the United States pioneer commonly refers to an American pioneer, a person in American history who migrated west to join in settling and de ...
''.
In 2013, Sigman played the leading role in the
USA Network
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drama pilot ''The Arrangement'' opposite
Bryan Greenberg
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. It was not ordered to series. Later that year, she was cast in a recurring role on the
FX crime drama series ''
The Bridge''. She also starred in the
Arctic Monkeys
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music video for "
Snap Out of It" in 2014. In 2015, Sigman played Valeria Vélez, character based on
Virginia Vallejo
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, in the
Netflix
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crime thriller, ''
Narcos
''Narcos'' is an American-Colombian crime drama television series created and produced by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro. Set and filmed in Colombia, seasons 1 and 2 are based on the story of Colombian narcoterrorist and drug kin ...
''.
In 2015, Sigman appeared in the
James Bond
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film ''
Spectre
Spectre, specter or the spectre may refer to:
Religion and spirituality
* Vision (spirituality)
* Apparitional experience
* Ghost
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* ''Spectre'' (1977 film), a made-for-television film produced and writ ...
'', becoming the second Mexican actress to play a
Bond girl
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after
Linda Christian
Linda Christian (born Blanca Rosa Henrietta Stella Welter Vorhauer; November 13, 1923 – July 22, 2011) was a Mexican film actress, who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara ...
first played the role of Valerie Mathis in the 1954 TV adaptation of ''
Casino Royale''.
She later was cast as a female lead in the action comedy ''
Going Under
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'', as well as ''
War on Everyone
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''.
In 2016, Sigman had a recurring role as Monica Ava during the second season of the
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anthology drama series ''
American Crime'' created by
John Ridley
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. Ridley later cast Sigman in the leading role as Presence Foster, the former Army veteran who finds herself as unlicensed Private Investigator, in the ABC detective drama pilot, ''Presence''.
In 2017, Sigman began playing Jessica Cortez, captain and commanding officer of the LAPD Metropolitan Division in ''
S.W.A.T.
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''. She exited at the start of the third season, when her character left to pursue FBI training.
Sigman starred as Sister Charlotte in the 2017 horror film ''
Annabelle: Creation''.
Personal life
Sigman is married to Brian Andrew Mendoza. They have a child born in 2019.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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Living people
People from Ciudad Obregón
Actresses from Sonora
21st-century Mexican actresses
21st-century American actresses
Mexican people of American descent
American actresses of Mexican descent
Mexican film actresses
American film actresses
Hispanic and Latino American actresses
1987 births