Life and career

Garcia was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Mexican mother from Pachuca and a Puerto Rican father from San Juan.

She was cast as Maria on The WB's Greetings from Tucson and appeared in the Global Frequency television pilot as Aleph. She had a role in the Disney Channel original movie Cadet Kelly (2002), and co-starred, as Lydia, alongside Anthony Anderson in The WB sitcom All About the Andersons. In 2006, she began appearing on the series George Lopez, playing his niece.

Garcia starred alongside Jessica Simpson in the comedy-drama Major Movie Star (2008). She also played a brief part in the movie D-War (2007) and narrated the Adam Sandler film Spanglish (2004).

From 2009 to 2010, she was in the cast of the Peter Berg NBC medical drama Trauma, as the EMT helicopter pilot Marisa Benez.

Garcia spent three years on Showtime's Dexter as Jamie Batista, for which she was nominated for a SAG Award for Best Ensemble in Dramatic Television Series.

She played Dr. Jae Kim in MGM's reboot film, RoboCop (2014).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	The Homecoming	Jodi	Film debut
2001	Betaville	Ruby Derain (young)
2002	The Good Girl	Nurse
2003	Boys Life 4: Four Play	Caitlan	Segment: "L.T.R."
2004	D.E.B.S.	Maria
2004	Chicago Boricua	Lola
2004	Spanglish	Narrator	Voice role
2005	A Lot Like Love	Nicole
2005	Cruel World	Gina
2005	Dirty	Rita
2006	The Alibi	Operator #1
2006	Mercy Street	Alicia Johnson
2007	Graduation	Suzy Winters
2007	D-War	Brandy
2007	Dead Tone	Jody Walters
2008	Universal Signs	Trish
2008	Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous	Private Vicky Castillo
2009	Shrink	Check out Girl
2009	B-Girl	Rosie
2011	Convincing Clooney	Amy
2011	Go for It!	Carmen Salgado
2014	RoboCop	Jae Kim

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	ER	Leanne Lawler	Episode: "Truth & Consequences"
2001	Resurrection Blvd.	Sylvia	Episode: "La Partida"
2001	The Agency	Motel Housekeeper	2 episodes
2001	V.I.P.	Receptionist	Episode: "The Uncle from V.A.L."
2002	Cadet Kelly	Gloria	Disney Channel original movie
2002	Angel	Cynthia York	Episode: "Birthday"
2002	American Family	Young Nina	5 episodes
2002-03	Greetings from Tucson	Maria Tiant	22 episodes
2002	MDs	Gina Willis	Episode: "Time of Death"
2003-04	All About the Andersons	Lydia Serrano	16 episodes
2004	Las Vegas	Lizzie Posner	Episode: "Nevada State"
2005	CSI: NY	Rhonda Chavez	Episode: "City of the Dolls"
2006-07	George Lopez	Veronica Palmero	20 episodes
2006	Lovespring International	Sparkles	Episode: "Homeless Rockstar"
2007	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Melissa Gentry	Episode: "Big Shots"
2007	Standoff	Tina Markovich	Episode: "Severance"
2008	Supernatural	Secretary Nancy Fitzgerald	Episode: "Jus in Bello"
2008	My Boys	Amy	Episode: "Take My Work Wife... Please"
2008	CSI: Miami	Andrea Rinell	Episode: "Won't Get Fueled Again"
2009	Gary Unmarried	Anna	Episode: "Gary and Dennis' Sister"
2009	Bones	Jennifer Keating	Episode: "The Science in the Physicist"
2009-10	Trauma	Marisa Benez	20 episodes
2009	Family Guy	Nicole	Episode: "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag"
2011	Off the Map	Alma	5 episodes
2011	Love Bites	Steffi	Episode: "Boys to Men"
2011-13	Dexter	Jamie Batista	34 episodes
2011	Hawaii Five-0	Karla	Episode: "Pahele"
2012-13	Vegas	Yvonne Sanchez	14 episodes
2012/13	Motorcity	Tennie (voice)	3 episodes
2014	About a Boy	Stacy	Episode: "About an Angry Ex"
2015	Impastor	Leeane	2 episodes
2016	Rush Hour	Didi Diaz	Main role

Accolades

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
2007	ALMA Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie	George Lopez	Nominated
2012	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Dexter	Nominated

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