Diane Guerrero

Actress and author Diane Guerrero first turned heads as inmate Maritza Ramos on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black and as Lina on Jane the Virgin. Her work on the former helped the ensemble cast win the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series three years in a row. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, and raised in Boston, she is American and of Latin ethnicity. Her memoir, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided, recounts how her parents were detained and deported when she was fourteen, leaving her to stay in Boston alone. She has channeled that experience into advocacy for immigration reform. Guerrero, who is 5'2" with a slim build, continues to act and write. She is close friends with her Orange Is the New Black co-star Jackie Cruz.