Rosie Perez

 Rosie Perez was born Rosa Maria Perez June 6, 1964. She is an American actress. Her biggest breakthrough came from Tina's character in Do the Right Thing (1989), which was followed by White Men Can't Hop (1992). Perez's performance in the film Tina Fearless (1993) brought her nomination for the Academy Award, Best Supporting Actress and other accolades. It Could Happen to You (1994) and The Road to El Dorado(2000), Pineapple Express(8) and Birds of Prey(2020) are some of her most famous films.

 Perez was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Award nominations in In Living Color (1990-1994) and another Emmy nomination (2020-present) for her performance in the role of The Flight Attendant. She has performed in stage shows on Broadway like The Ritz, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, and Fish in the Dark. She also hosted on the ABC talk show The View during the series in the 18th season.

 Childhood and early life

 Perez was born on September 6 1964 in Brooklyn to Lydia Perez (a merchant mariner seaman) and Ismael Serano (a Bushwick neighborhood resident). [3][4][5] Her mother Lydia (nee Fontanez y Reyes) was born on 13 October 1939, in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Her father came from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Arturo Perez, her mother's husband, was 20 years older than her. After an affair with the father of Serrano, Perez's mother had already had five children. Perez was born in the now closed Greenpoint Hospital in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood in Brooklyn.

 Perez is one of her ten children. Rosie as well as her siblings grew up in Bushwick while their mother was intermittently jailed. The mother of her child was born to her second child while in prison. In the beginning she was taken care of by an aunt. Then, she was in foster care and group homes. It was not uncommon for her to be separated from her siblings. She was moved to an institution for foster children and resided in foster homes in New York and Peekskill until age eight. After the age of twelve her legal status was that of a ward in New York. Aunt and mother visited her often, and her father unsuccessfully tried to take her custody.