Ana Ortiz

Ana Ortiz has a petite frame at 5'4", with brown hair and brown eyes, and a slim build that has become familiar to television audiences for over three decades. Born on January 25, 1971, in Manhattan, New York, she is an American of Latin ethnicity, with a Puerto Rican father and an Irish mother. Ortiz trained in ballet and singing from a young age and later attended the University of the Arts, which set the stage for her career in theatre before she moved to television in the early 2000s.

Her early television work included short-lived NBC sitcoms Kristin (2001) and A.U.S.A. (2003), as well as recurring roles on Over There and Boston Legal. She gained widespread recognition for playing Hilda Suarez on the ABC comedy-drama Ugly Betty from 2006 to 2010. Ortiz also appeared in films such as Labor Pains (2009), Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011), and starred in Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story (2008). From 2013 to 2016, she starred as Marisol Suarez on Lifetime's Devious Maids, earning the Imagen Award for Best Actress - Television. Since 2020, she has played Isabel Salazar in the Hulu series Love, Victor. Her career spans more than three decades, starting when she was about 24 years old.