Majandra Delfino Biography

Majandra Delfino (born Maria Alejandra Delfino; February 20, 1981) is an Alma Award-nominated Venezuelan-American actress and singer best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on the television series Roswell and Georgia's best friend, Jo Pye on the State of Georgia. She is the younger sister of actress Marieh Delfino.

Personal life

Delfino was born on February 20, 1981 in Caracas, Venezuela. She moved to Miami, Florida at the age of three. Her parents gave her a six month window to prove she could be successful in the music/acting business.

She married her Roswell co-star Devon Gummersall in 2007. They were divorced in 2008.

On March 18, 2011, Delfino married actor David Walton in Miami. Their daughter, Cecilia Delphine, was born on June 14, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. On June 29, 2013, the couple announced they were expecting their second child in December.

Film and television

Delfino started playing Maria DeLuca on Roswell, where on hiatus she starred in the small but memorable role of Vanessa in Traffic as well as Natalie in The Secret Life of Girls. She also acted in Reeseville, Celeste in the City, The Tony Danza Show, and R.S.V.P., with Jason Mewes and Glenn Quinn. She played Trudi in the film State's Evidence, which covers the controversial topic of violence in schools. She lost to Mena Suvari for the role of Angela Hayes in the 1999 film American Beauty after expressing serious distaste with having to kiss Kevin Spacey onscreen.

Delfino starred in a number of episodes of the NBC show Quarterlife, also shown on MySpaceTV, which started airing November 11, 2007. As of June 2011, she was starring with Raven-Symoné in the show State of Georgia on the ABC Family channel till its cancellation.

Following her ABC Family show, Delfino, eight months pregnant with her first child, shot ABC's pilot The Family Trap starring Mandy Moore and Stockard Channing. Director Shawn Levy shot around the pregnancy for the entire project. One month after giving birth, Delfino was cast as Dwight Schrute's sister on NBC's The Office spin-off. The pilot, titled The Farm, stars Rainn Wilson, Delfino and Thomas Middleditch as siblings who inherit the larger family farm after the death of their Aunt Shirley. NBC did not green light the series, deciding to air the pilot as an episode of The Office instead.

Music

Delfino sang in several Roswell episodes, such as "Viva Las Vegas", "Cry Your Name", and "Behind the Music". In the summer of 2000, Delfino released three songs onto the internet, "Siren", "Bruises" and "Tattoo", and wrote and produced them in association with "Sci-Fi Lullaby".

On October 31, 2001, Delfino released the EP The Sicks on her own label, Dripfeed, without radio or television airplay. Producer/remixer Justin Lassen created an 11-remix suite with Delfino's masters from The Sicks that was never fully released due to red tape.

She also received attention in France, through her duet with French chanteuse RoBERT, entitled Le Prince Bleu D'Arthelius in which she sings both in English and French.

Her second album, Tarte, was released on April 23, 2007, by her own record company, Red Velvet Cake Records, through her Web site www.majandra.com and can now be purchased through iTunes along with The Sicks.

In February 2011, the singer announced, through her Twitter, that she is working on her third studio album, scheduled for a late 2011 release.

Discography

Majandra

• The Sicks (EP) (2001) Dripfeed
• Le Prince Bleu D'Arthelius (2003) (CD Single duet with RoBERT)
• Tarte (2007) Red Velvet Cake Records
• Upcoming third album (2012)

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Zeus and Roxanne	Judith Dunhill
1997-1998	The Tony Danza Show	Tina DiMeo	14 episodes
1999	The Secret Life of Girls	Natalie Sanford
	Katie Joplin	Sara Shotz	7 episodes
1999"2002	Roswell	Maria DeLuca	Main Role; 61 episodes
2000	Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth	Martina	Direct-to-video
	Traffic	Vanessa
2001	The Learning Curve	Ashley
2002	R.S.V.P.	Callie
2003	Reeseville	Irish Buchanan
2004	Boston Public	Jill Sharp	Episode "Chapter Seventy-Seven"
	Celeste in the City	Celeste Blodgett	TV movie
2005	Don't Come Knocking	1st Girl
2006	Three Moons Over Milford	Grace Wochuck	Episode "Unaired Pilot"
	Ultra	Suzette	TV movie
	Help Me Help You	Pissed-Off Girl / Lucy	Episodes "Pilot" and "The Mattress"
	State's Evidence	Trudi
2008	Heidi 4 Paws	Miss Rottenmeier
	Quarterlife	Vanessa	5 episodes
2009	Bent	Megan	Short film
	Pulling	Louise	TV movie
	Web of Lies	Abby Turner	TV movie
2010	Life as We Know It	Jenna
2011	Men of a Certain Age	Stella	Episodes "The Pickup" and "A League of Their Owen"
	State of Georgia	Josephina "Jo" Pye	Main Role; 12 episodes
2012	Family Trap	Sarah	TV movie
2013	The Office	Fannie	Episode "The Farm"