Majandra Delfino

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Maria Alejandra Delfino ( ), known professionally as Majandra Delfino, is a Venezuelan-American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on Roswell, and as Andi on the CBS sitcom Friends with Better Lives.

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Early life Delfino was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Her father, Enrique Delfino, is Italian Venezuelan, and her mother, Mary Hellmund, is Cubans.Delfino, Majandra (Jul 28, 2011). "Twitter post". Twitter. Retrieved April 10, 2017. "Mother is Cuban, father is Italian Venezuelan. Watch out! ;)" As a child, she lived in Caracas and Miami, Florida, before moving to Los Angeles as a teenager.

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Career

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Acting Delfino was cast in MGM's Zeus & Roxanne before winning the role of Tina Dimeo in NBC's The Tony Danza Show, where she played Danza's teenage daughter. After playing Natalie Sanford in the independent film The Secret Life of Girls, Delfino was cast as Maria DeLuca on Roswell. On hiatus, she performed in the small role of Vanessa in Traffic. She also acted in Reeseville, Celeste in the City, R.S.V.P. and State's Evidence.

Delfino starred in several episodes of the NBC show Quarterlife, also shown on MySpaceTV, which started airing November 11, 2007. In 2011, she starred with Raven-Symoné in the show State of Georgia on ABC Family until its cancellation.

Delfino performed in ABC's pilot The Family Trap starring Mandy Moore and Stockard Channing. She was eight months pregnant with her first child during the shooting, so director Shawn Levy shot around the pregnancy for the entire project. One month after giving birth, Delfino was cast as Dwight Schrute's sister, Fanny Schrute, on NBC's The Office attempted spin-off, The Farm. NBC did not Green-light the series.

Delfino starred in CBS's Friends with Better Lives, where writers included her pregnancy in the storyline.

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Music Delfino sang in several Roswell episodes, such as "Viva Las Vegas", "Cry Your Name" and "Behind the Music". In the summer of 2000, she released three songs onto the internet, "Siren", "Bruises" and "Tattoo", written and produced in association with "Sci-Fi Lullaby." On October 31, 2001, she released the EP The Sicks on her own label, Dripfeed, without radio or television airplay.

Her second album, Tarte, was released on April 23, 2007 by her own record company, Red Velvet Cake Records. In February 2011, she announced via Twitter that she was working on her third studio album, scheduled for a late 2018 release. Majandra Delfino - Third Album (Late 2011) at popjustice.com

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Personal life On March 18, 2011, Delfino married actor David Walton in Miami. They have two children, a daughter born in 2012, and a son born in 2013.

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Discography

• The Sicks (EP) (2001) Dripfeed
• Le Prince Bleu D'Arthelius (2003) (CD single duet with RoBERT)
• Tarte (2007) RVC Records

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Film and television credits

1997	Zeus and Roxanne	Judith Dunhill
1997–1998	The Tony Danza Show	Tina DiMeo	14 episodes
1999	The Secret Life of Girls	Natalie Sanford
	Katie Joplin	Sara Shotz	7 episodes
1999–2002	Roswell	Maria DeLuca	Main role; 60 episodes
2000	Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th	Martina Martinez	Direct-to-video
	Traffic	Vanessa
2001	The Learning Curve	Ashley
2002	R.S.V.P.	Callie
2003	Reeseville	Irish Buchanan
2004	Boston Public	Jill Sharp	Episode "Chapter Seventy-Seven"
	Celeste in the City	Celeste Blodgett	TV movie
2005	Don't Come Knocking	1st Girl
2006	Three Moons Over Milford	Grace Wochuck	Episode "Unaired Pilot"
	Ultra	Suzette	TV movie
	Help Me Help You	Pissed-Off Girl / Lucy	Episodes "Pilot" and "The Mattress"
	State's Evidence	Trudi
2008	Heidi 4 Paws	Miss Rottenmeier
	Quarterlife	Vanessa	5 episodes
2009	"Bent"	Megan	Short film
	Pulling	Louise	TV movie
	Web of Lies	Abby Turner	TV movie
2010	Life as We Know It	Jenna
2011	Men of a Certain Age	Stella	Episodes "The Pickup" and "A League of Their Owen"
	State of Georgia	Josephina "Jo" Pye	Main role; 12 episodes
2012	Family Trap	Sarah	TV movie
2013	The Office	Fannie Schrute	Episode "The Farm"
2014	Friends with Better Lives	Andi Lutz	Main role
2017	Life in Pieces	Marsha	Episode "Ear Scorn Registry Manuscript"
2017	Band Aid	Maria
2017	BoJack Horseman	Henrietta	Episode "Time's Arrow"
2025	Kill Me Again	Ana	TV movie

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