Monique Candelaria

Monique Candelaria

Born: February 11, 1987
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Monique Kathleen Candelaria was born February 11th in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Carla Bernadette Castillo and David Robert Candelaria. Soon after she was born her father joined the army and they moved to Bremerhaven, Germany where her brother, David A. Candelaria, was born. Monique also has 2 half brothers (twins), Ivan and Nathan Del Curto, which are a year younger than her.

After her father suffered from a brain aneurysm, making him a 100% disabled veteran, her family returned to New Mexico and her love for the arts began to flourish. As a child around the age of 7 she began singing in weddings and funerals. Realizing that singing is her security blanket she never pursued music as a career but kept it in her life as a passionate hobby. At 15 years old she became a dancer for a local television show in Albuquerque called, "Dance, Dance, Dance it's a Teen Thing". In 2009 she graduated from the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Theatre emphasis in Acting.

The first film she was officially cast in was a 1940's New Mexican period piece called Bless me, Ultima (2013)_ directed by 'Carl Franklin'_ in 2010. Her most recognizable role was Lucy, the Denny's waitress from "Breaking Bad" {Live Free or Die (#501} (2012-2013) (TV)_. However, her 1st lead role was in a feature film was The Control Group (2014) starring Brad Dourif. A couple of years later she was cast in her 2nd lead role in the film Cents (2016)_ as the character Angela Baca who struggles with being a single mother raising a mathematical genius.

Movies for Monique Candelaria...

Slayers
Title: Slayers
Character: Newscaster
Released: October 21, 2022
Type: Movie
A group of superstar influencers are drawn to a reclusive billionaire's mansion only to find themselves trapped in the lair of an evil vampire. The only way out is to be saved by a famous online gamer and an old school vampire hunter.
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Driftless
Title: Driftless
Character: Ranger Nova
Released: August 27, 2020
Type: Movie
When a state government shutdown closes parks on 4th of July weekend, Park Ranger Nova Abbey must protect the park from the people, and the people from each other.
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Title: Lovecraft Country
Character: Yahima
Released: August 16, 2020
Type: TV
The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
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The Wave
Title: The Wave
Character: Olive
Released: September 21, 2019
Type: Movie
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
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Snatchers
Title: Snatchers
Character: Alvarez
Released: March 12, 2019
Type: Movie
After status-obsessed teen Sara has sex for the first time, she wakes up the next day nine months pregnant-with an alien.
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Title: Roswell, New Mexico
Character: Guard
Released: January 15, 2019
Type: TV
After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer—he’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.
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Ideal Home
Title: Ideal Home
Character: Officer Guttierez
Released: June 21, 2018
Type: Movie
A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.
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Deadman Standing
Title: Deadman Standing
Character: Lyla
Released: April 15, 2018
Type: Movie
The true story of a recently widowered lawman who befriends a boy dying of tuberculosis and a madam of the local brothel while their town is being politically and violently overtaken by a gang of reckless cattlemen from Texas.
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Shot Caller
Title: Shot Caller
Character: Lola Gomez
Released: July 13, 2017
Type: Movie
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
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Independence Day: Resurgence
Title: Independence Day: Resurgence
Character: Tech Officer (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 2016
Type: Movie
We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Title: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Character: Geri's Receptionist
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: Movie
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.
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The Lost Pueblo
Title: The Lost Pueblo
Character: The Devil
Released: February 14, 2016
Type: Movie
When kids get lost in the New Mexico wilderness. Just like life, we must not lose love and hope or the Devil wins in the end.
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The Condemned 2
Title: The Condemned 2
Character: Danni
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: Movie
A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in which convicts are forced to fight each other to the death as part of a game that's broadcast to the public.
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Dirty Weekend
Title: Dirty Weekend
Character: Dark Haired Beauty
Released: September 4, 2015
Type: Movie
During a layover in Albuquerque, work colleagues Les and Natalie discover more about each other than they ever thought possible. Anxious and irritable, Les is drawn back into the city by past experiences he can’t forget (even if he doesn't really remember the particulars of his previous drunken adventure). Natalie, refusing to leave his side, follows along as her own secrets are slowly revealed, leaving her feeling both vulnerable and unbound.
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Cents
Title: Cents
Character: Angela Baca
Released: March 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Sammy, an uncommonly smart twelve-year-old girl, uses her gift for mathematics and enlists her frenemies to revamp the school penny drive into a major moneymaking operation.
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The Control Group
Title: The Control Group
Character: Heather
Released: October 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Five college students wake up in an abandoned, locked-down insane asylum - with no idea how they got there and no means of escape. They discover that they are the subjects of secret experiments, but these tests have awakened something that cannot be explained by science. The group must now fight to escape both the human and supernatural threats if they are to survive and break out of their prison.
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Banshee Chapter
Title: Banshee Chapter
Character: Patient 14
Released: November 6, 2013
Type: Movie
On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin.
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10 Years
Title: 10 Years
Character: Amy Lee
Released: September 14, 2012
Type: Movie
A group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation.
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Spoken Word
Title: Spoken Word
Character: Cruz Montoya's Mother
Released: July 17, 2009
Type: Movie
A San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to the dysfunctional life of drugs and violence he left behind.
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Title: Breaking Bad
Character: Lucy
Released: January 20, 2008
Type: TV
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.