In just three short years, 18-year-old Majandra Delfino has taken Hollywood by storm, with a starring role in "Roswell" and no less than three upcoming movies set for release this year. The daughter of a Venezuelan father and Cuban-American mother, Delfino was born in Caracas, Venezuela, but moved with her family to Miami at age 3.
Growing up, she excelled in academics, but gravitated towards the arts, enrolling in ballet, singing and acting lessons, and soon performing in school plays and community theater productions. At age 10, she danced in "The Nutcracker" with the Miami Ballet.
At age 11, Delfino joined an all-girls singing quartet named China Doll. The group, which included her best friend, Samantha Gibb, daughter of the Bee Bees' Maurice Gibb, specialized in Latin-styled pop. The gorup opended for the Bee Gees at a benefit concert at the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach. A few years later, Delfino and Gib left the group but continued to write and record as a duo.
At age 15, her parents, dismayed with her acting aspirations, gave her a 6-month deadline to test the waters-- or fully concentrate on school. Within months, she had secured an agent and won the roll of Kathleen Quinlan's daughter in the family film "Zeus & Roxanne." The following summer, she landed her first television series, playing Tony Danza's eldest daughter on "The Tony Danza Show."
Adding to her big-screen credits, Delfino stars in the upcoming horror spoof, "I know what you Screamed last Summer," as well as opposite Linda Hamilton in the coming of age drama "The Secret Lives of Girls." She will also be see in the independent film "The Learning Curve." Delfino just completed her senior year of high school, and resides in Los Angeles.
From the WB Roswell Press packet
