Biography
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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Ninety Minutes Later
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2024
Fire & Ice
Character: Wanda
MOVIE • 2001
Under Suspicion
Character: Singer (voice)
MOVIE • 2000
All Lies End in Murder
Character: Yvonne Valesquez
MOVIE • 1997
Hit Me
Character: Housekeeper
MOVIE • 1996
Malcolm & Eddie
Character: Janice Ramos
TV • 1996
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: The Six Fairies (voice)
TV • 1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: Female Attendant (voice)
TV • 1995
ER
Character: Wendy Goldman
TV • 1994
State of Emergency
Character: Violetta
MOVIE • 1994
Twenty Bucks
Character: Melanie
MOVIE • 1993
Father Hood
Character: Delores
MOVIE • 1993
Bound by Honor
Character: Montana's Daughter
MOVIE • 1993
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
Character: Terry
MOVIE • 1992
Melrose Place
Character: Linda Cortez
TV • 1992
Tequila and Bonetti
Character: Lupe
TV • 1992
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
Character: Yo-Yo
MOVIE • 1991
Nurses
Character: Angelica
TV • 1991
To My Daughter
Character: Student #1
MOVIE • 1990
Sweet 15
Character: Lupe
MOVIE • 1990