Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
9/23/1959
Place of Birth
Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
Elizabeth PenaElizabeth Maria PeñaElizabeth Anne Dickinson
Elizabeth Peña
Biography
Elizabeth Maria Peña (September 23, 1959 – October 14, 2014) was an American actress, and the daughter of a theater-company co-founder, who has also compiled experience as a television director in her own right. Peña was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, daughter of Estella Margarita (née Toirac), an arts administrator and producer, and Mario Peña, the Cuban-born actor, writer, and director who jointly founded the Latin American Theatre Ensemble. It is unknown whether Peña was named after the town of her birth. Peña graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts in 1977. Her classmates ...
Known For
The Incredibles
as Mirage (voice)
*batteries not included
as Marisa Esteval
Rush Hour
as Johnson
Things Behind the Sun
as Carmen
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
as Lolita
Grandma
as Carla
Jacob's Ladder
as Jezzie
Strangeland
as Toni Gage
Lone Star
as Pilar Cruz
La Bamba
as Rosie Morales
Transamerica
as Margaret
Zig Zag
as Ms. Tate
The Waterdance
as Rosa
The Pass
as Zeena
Plush
as Dr. Lopez
The Invaders
as Ellen Garza
Impostor
as Midwife (as Elizabeth Pena)
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
as Kate Haley
Tortilla Soup
as Leticia Narnjo
Sueno
as Mirabela