Vanessa Marquez

Vanessa Marquez

Born: December 21, 1968
Died: August 30, 2018
in Los Angeles County, California, USA
Vanessa Marquez was born on December 21, 1968 in Los Angeles County, California. She decided that she wanted to be an actress after she first saw The Wizard of Oz (1939) when she was only 3 or 4. She made her film debut as Ana Delgado in Stand and Deliver in 1988. In the Nineties Miss Marquez was very much in demand as an actress, appearing in such films as Twenty Bucks (1993), Bound by Honor (1993, also known as Blood In, Blood Out), and Father Hood (1993). On television she guest starred on such shows as Wiseguy, Seinfeld, Nurses, and Melrose Place. She appeared in the first three seasons on the hit TV show ER in the role of Nurse Wendy Goldman. Vanessa Marquez died on August 30, 2018 in South Pasadena, California.

Movies for Vanessa Marquez...

Fire & Ice
Title: Fire & Ice
Character: Wanda
Released: January 22, 2001
Type: Movie
While many celebrities believe their fame gives them good luck with the opposite gender, one man with a successful television career discovers fame is spoiling his chances with the woman he loves in the made-for-TV romantic drama. Holly Aimes (Lark Voorhies) is the daughter of a prominent politician (Glynn Turman), and recently broke off her engagement with a well-known actor. Holly has spent most of her life in the spotlight, and wants nothing more than to be left alone without the glare of public scrutiny. When Holly meets talk show host Michael Williams (Kadeem Hardison), he's soon convinced that she's the woman with whom he wants to share his life, but can he convince her of his sincerity so she will brave another high-profile romance? Based on the popular romance novel by Carla Fredd, Fire and Ice also features Tempestt Bledsoe and Freda Payne. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Under Suspicion
Title: Under Suspicion
Character: Singer (voice)
Released: August 24, 2000
Type: Movie
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer.
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All Lies End in Murder
Title: All Lies End in Murder
Character: Yvonne Valesquez
Released: January 19, 1997
Type: Movie
A policeman's wife suspects he is corrupt.
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Hit Me
Title: Hit Me
Character: Housekeeper
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: Movie
A bellhop living with his mentally impaired brother becomes involved with an unbalanced woman and a scheme to steal guests' valuables.
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Title: Malcolm & Eddie
Character: Janice Ramos
Released: August 26, 1996
Type: TV
Malcolm and Eddie are as different as one can imagine. Nevertheless, they're best friends who manage to be roommates as well as co-workers and not kill each other.
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Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: The Six Fairies (voice)
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: Female Attendant (voice)
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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Title: ER
Character: Wendy Goldman
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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State of Emergency
Title: State of Emergency
Character: Violetta
Released: February 21, 1994
Type: Movie
Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an unorthodox procedure to try to save a patient, and finds himself in trouble in consequence.
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Twenty Bucks
Title: Twenty Bucks
Character: Melanie
Released: October 21, 1993
Type: Movie
A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.
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Father Hood
Title: Father Hood
Character: Delores
Released: August 27, 1993
Type: Movie
Deadbeat dad kidnaps his kids from the bus to an abusive foster home and they go on a run. The cops are after them, they bicker constantly and his idea of a way out is grim, yet this dangerous ride might just turn them into a family.
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Bound by Honor
Title: Bound by Honor
Character: Montana's Daughter
Released: February 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
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Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
Title: Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
Character: Terry
Released: February 1, 1993
Type: Movie
When Kate Sullivan storms a hostage situation, the whole incident is captured on tape by an unscrupulous media crew who edit the footage to show her killing a helpless victim. "Maniac Cop" takes it upon himself to exact revenge upon those who smeared her name.
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Title: Melrose Place
Character: Linda Cortez
Released: July 8, 1992
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.
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Title: Tequila and Bonetti
Character: Lupe
Released: January 17, 1992
Type: TV
Tequila and Bonetti is an American comedy-drama series
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Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
Title: Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
Character: Yo-Yo
Released: October 29, 1991
Type: Movie
This women in prison drama tells us a story about the mother of three children, who was falsely accused for a crime she did not commit (drug dealing), arrested and locked up behind bars.
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Title: Nurses
Character: Angelica
Released: September 14, 1991
Type: TV
Nurses is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from September 14, 1991, to May 7, 1994, created and produced by Susan Harris as a spin-off of Empty Nest, which itself was a spin-off of The Golden Girls.
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To My Daughter
Title: To My Daughter
Character: Student #1
Released: November 26, 1990
Type: Movie
A mother is haunted by the death of one of her children which has an effect on the surviving siblings in this fact-based drama.
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Sweet 15
Title: Sweet 15
Character: Lupe
Released: January 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Nothing is more important to Mexican-American Marta Delacruz than her quinceanera -- the traditional 15th birthday celebration that symbolically ushers a young girl into adulthood. Marta is understandably angry and resentful when her father cancels the gala event, but her outlook changes completely when she accidentally uncovers her father's secret: He never became a U.S. citizen.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Receptionist
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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Night Children
Title: Night Children
Character: Runt
Released: January 6, 1989
Type: Movie
A veteran cop (David Carradine) investigates the crimes of an anarchist street gang that causes chaos wherever they go. Meanwhile, his wife (Nancy Kwan), a police counselor, investigates a teenage runaway case which leads to the same gang. Showdowns ensue that pits sides together in a violent series of confrontations.
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Stand and Deliver
Title: Stand and Deliver
Character: Ana Delgado
Released: March 11, 1988
Type: Movie
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
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Title: Wiseguy
Character: Consuelo Burns
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.