Vanessa Marquez was born on December 21, 1968 in Los Angeles County, California. She decided that she wanted to be an actress after she first saw The Wizard of Oz (1939) when she was only 3 or 4. She made her film debut as Ana Delgado in Stand and Deliver in 1988. In the Nineties Miss Marquez was very much in demand as an actress, appearing in such films as Twenty Bucks (1993), Bound by Honor (1993, also known as Blood In, Blood Out), and Father Hood (1993). On television she guest starred on such shows as Wiseguy, Seinfeld, Nurses, and Melrose Place. She appeared in the first three seasons on the hit TV show ER in the role of Nurse Wendy Goldman. Vanessa Marquez died on August 30, 2018 in South Pasadena, California.
To My Daughter
(Student #1)
Night Children
(Runt)
Under Suspicion
(Singer (voice))
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
(Yo-Yo)
Stand and Deliver
(Ana Delgado)
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
(Terry)
Bound by Honor
(Montana's Daughter)
Twenty Bucks
(Melanie)
Father Hood
(Delores)
Fire & Ice
(Wanda)
All Lies End in Murder
(Yvonne Valesquez)
State of Emergency
(Violetta)
Sweet 15
(Lupe)
Hit Me
(Housekeeper)
Ninety Minutes Later
(Self)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
(The Six Fairies (voice))
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
(Female Attendant (voice))
Nurses
(Angelica)
Seinfeld
(Receptionist)
Tequila and Bonetti
(Lupe)
Melrose Place
(Linda Cortez)
Malcolm & Eddie
(Janice Ramos)
Wiseguy
(Consuelo Burns)
ER
(Wendy Goldman)