Tia Texada is an American

United States

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 actress and singer. She is probably best known for portraying the role of Sgt. Maritza Cruz from the American television show Third Watch

Third Watch

Third Watch is an American television drama series which first aired on NBC from 1999 to 2005 for a total of 132 episodes, broadcast in 6 seasons of 22 episodes each....

and for her role as Shay on ABC Family's Huge

Huge (TV series)

Huge is a short lived American drama series that aired on the ABC Family television network. The series is based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Sasha Paley. The hour-long drama series revolves around eight teens sent to a summer weight-loss camp called Camp Victory...

.

Texada was born in Louisiana

Louisiana

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 to a reflexologist mother and an insurance agent father. She has been acting since she was young.

Texada's most recent appearance was as a guest star in an episode of Chuck

Chuck (TV series)

Chuck is an action-comedy/spy-drama television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central...

("Chuck Versus the Coup d'Etat

Chuck Versus the Coup d'Etat

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"). Before that she was a guest star in Saving Grace

Saving Grace (TV series)

Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series which premiered on TNT on July 23, 2007 and ran until June 21, 2010. The show stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series, as well as Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Laura San Giacomo, Bailey Chase, Bokeem Woodbine,...

and in two episodes of The Unit

The Unit

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and appeared in Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...

 (Season 3, Episode 17) as Detective Tina Lopez. She played Sgt. Maritza Cruz in the NBC

NBC

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 Drama Third Watch

Third Watch

Third Watch is an American television drama series which first aired on NBC from 1999 to 2005 for a total of 132 episodes, broadcast in 6 seasons of 22 episodes each....

. She also has appeared in movies such as From Dusk Till Dawn

From Dusk Till Dawn

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(1996), Paulie

Paulie

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(1998), Nurse Betty

Nurse Betty

Nurse Betty is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Neil LaBute starring Renée Zellweger as a sweet Kansas waitress who undergoes a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband's murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite soap actor....

(2000), Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is a 2001 American drama film directed by Jill Sprecher. The screenplay by Sprecher and her sister Karen focuses on five seemingly disparate individuals in search of happiness whose paths intersect in ways that unexpectedly impact their lives.-Plot:The film is...

(2001), Glitter

Glitter (film)

Glitter is a 2001 film starring R&B singer, songwriter Mariah Carey. It was produced by 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures and directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall. It centers on the life and times of a struggling singer from the early club music scene in the 1980s.-Production:Carey has said about...

(2001), Phone Booth

Phone Booth (film)

Phone Booth is a 2002 American suspense-thriller film about a man who is held hostage in a telephone booth by a sniper. It stars Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, and Radha Mitchell. The film was directed by Joel Schumacher, with music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams...

(2003) Spartan

Spartan (film)

Spartan is a 2004 American political thriller film written and directed by David Mamet. It features Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, Tia Texada, Ed O'Neill, William H. Macy, and Kristen Bell. It was released in The United States and Canada on 12 March 2004....

(2004) and Everybody Hates Chris

Everybody Hates Chris

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(2008) (as Miss Rivera) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1311865/fullcredits#cast. She also has a singing career, and her songs have been featured on shows such as Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek

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. She also played at the Lilith Fair tour in 1998. She has lent her voice to TV's Static Shock

Static Shock

Static Shock is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It premiered in September 2000 on the Kids' WB! block and ran for four seasons, with a total of 52 half-hour episodes....

as well as many television commercials. She has also done layouts for magazines, and has been featured in FHM. She is currently the voice of Elena Validus from Ben 10: Ultimate Alien as Alyssa Diaz

Alyssa Diaz

Alyssa Elaine Diaz is an American actress. Diaz is best known for playing the role of Jasmine on the ABC Family show The Nine lives of Chloe King as well as Celia Ortega on the daytime soap opera As The World Turns from February 9, 2005 until her final appearance on August 10, 2005 when her...

's voice double.

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