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Roberta Colindrez is a Mexican-American actor and writer known for originating the role of Joan in the musical Fun Home. Colindrez is also known for roles in the TV shows I Love Dick, Vida, and Amazon Prime's A League of Their Own.

Roberta Colindrez
Colindrez at the 2019 Montclair Film Festival
Born	Mexico
Nationality	Mexican-American
Occupation	Actor, playwright
Years active	2006–present
Known for	Fun Home I Love Dick Vida A League of Their Own

Early life

Born in Mexico with Argentinian and Honduran heritage,[1][2] Colindrez grew up in Houston and Austin in Texas.[3] She first realized she wanted to become an actor at age 12, when she and her brother took a theater class together.[4] She moved to New York City when starting out as a professional actor.[1]

Career

Colindrez made her off-Broadway debut in 2006, starring in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. She appeared in several short films and regional theatre productions after that, and in 2011 she wrote and starred in the film Otis Under Sky. In 2013, she began playing Joan, a "confident young lesbian",[4] in the musical Fun Home off-Broadway.[4] The show closed in early 2014, and after a cameo in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Fun Home opened on Broadway in 2015, where it won 5 Tony Awards and was nominated for 7 more.[4]

Colindrez has also made guest appearances on several television series and her performance on I Love Dick as a butch artist was described as a "breakout" in an interview with Vanity Fair;[1] showrunner Joey Soloway described Colindrez's performance as "masterful", portraying "a queer cowboy masculinity".[1]

In 2019, Colindrez joined the cast of Latino TV drama Vida as a series regular from the second season. She also does voice acting work, most notably in the podcast Alice Isn't Dead.[2][5]

In 2020, Colindrez joined the cast of Amazon's comedy pilot A League of Their Own.[6]

Colindrez also writes for the stage, preferring "dark, heavy, comedic nuance".[4]

Personal life

Colindrez identifies as queer[4][7] and butch[8] and nearly passed on Vida because she was worried about being typecast.[7] Prior to Vida, she had faced difficulty establishing her acting career because of her sexuality and gender nonconformity[7] and has spoken about Hollywood being "a place where people who are queer will only be seen as queers".[4] She accepted the role after showrunner Tanya Saracho persuaded her that the character would not be a stereotype.[7]

Colindrez became close friends with Bobbi Salvör Menuez on the set of I Love Dick, which she found helpful when filming a sex scene with Menuez.[1] Menuez gave Colindrez a stick and poke tattoo as a memento of their friendship.[1]

Credits

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Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	One Dollar Poem		Short
2011	Otis Under Sky	Ursula	Also writer
2013	Beautiful Dreamer	Catherina	Short
2014	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Broadway Woman on Street
2019	Ms. White Light	Lex Cordova	[3]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012–14	Girls	Tako	2 episodes
2014	F to 7th	Baby	Episode: "Down to Zero"
2014	Gotham	Female Detective	Episode: "Pilot"
2014	Unforgettable	Pam Lisotta	Episode: "Throwing Shade"
2014	Boardwalk Empire		Episode: "Golden Days for Boys and Girls"
2015	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self/Joan	Episode: "Ed Helms/Alison Bechdel/Fun Home/Brad Wilk"
2017	I Love Dick	Devon	8 episodes[4][9]
2018–19	The Deuce	Irene	12 episodes
2018	The Good Fight	FBI Agent Grace	Episode: "Day 492"
2019–20	Vida	Nico Silva	14 episodes
2019	Mr. Robot	Happyhardonhenry806	Episode: "404 Not Found"
2020	Interrogation	Detective Boyd	Episode: "Det. Dave Russell vs Chris Keller 1983"[10]
2020	Mrs. America	Jules	Episode: "Phyllis & Fred & Brenda & Marc"
2020	Monsterland	Shawn Greene	Episode: "Plainfield, Illinois"[11]
2021	The Harper House	Tonya Acosta (voice)	5 episodes
2022	A League of Their Own	Lupe Garcia	8 episodes

Theatre

• Water, NPR Playhouse
• The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill: Vol. 2
• Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, off-Broadway, 2006
• Song for the Disappeared, Sundance Theatre Lab
• Fun Home, Joan, off-Broadway, Sep. 30, 2013 – Jan. 12, 2014
• Mala Hierba, Maritza, Second Stage Theatre, 2014
• Fun Home, Joan, Broadway, Apr. 19, 2015 – September, 2016
• Hamlet, Rosencrantz, off-Broadway, 2017

Podcasts

• Alice Isn't Dead, 6 episodes, 2016–2017[5]
• It Makes a Sound, Pam Orland, 1 episode, 2018[12]

See also

• LGBT culture in New York City
• List of LGBT people from New York City

References

External links

• Roberta Colindrez at IMDb 
• Roberta Colindrez at the Internet Broadway Database
• Roberta Colindrez at Playbill Vault (archive)

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Roberta Colindrez (Monterrey, 1986) es una escritora y actriz mexicano-estadounidense conocida por interpretar el papel de Joan en el musical Fun Home y participar en las series televisivas I Love Dick y Vida.

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