Rosanny Zayas is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Sophie Suarez on The L Word: Generation Q (2019–2023). Zayas has acted in The Code, Orange Is the New Black , and Elementary.
Zayas was born in Brooklyn [1] and raised in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York to an Afro-Dominican family. [2] She attended Forest Hills High School, where she was a member of the choral group and began acting at the encouragement of the drama teacher. [3] [4]
She received her bachelor's degree from Queens College, where she studied acting under Claudia Fieldstein. [3] Zayas graduated from the Juilliard School with her master of fine arts degree in the program's second graduate class. [1] While at Juilliard, her performance in the titular role of José's Marisol received positive reception and helped her break into the New York theater scene. [4]
Zayas appeared in the Public Theater Mobile Unit's 2018 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream as Helena. [5] Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote of her performance for the New York Times , "Best is Rosanny Zayas as Helena, who demonstrates nimble comic timing and always seems to be completely in the moment — a rarer ability than you’d think, even among the best actors." [6]
She was a lead cast member on The L Word: Generation Q 's three seasons as Sophie Suarez, a Dominican American producer on Alice Pieszecki's talk show The Alice Show. [7] [8] When Zayas was a high school student, she was an avid viewer of the original series. [2] [9]
Zayas has acted in Modern Persuasion, Orange is the New Black , The Code, and Elementary. [10] She also has a supporting role in the mini-series Angelyne and she is a series regular in the Netflix series Echoes . [11]
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