Early life

Reyes was born in The Bronx, New York to Dominican immigrants and has three sisters, including a twin sister named Joselin, who played a paramedic on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Reyes grew up on Bainbridge Avenue, from the age of 13 to the age of 25-26. She attended Hunter College in Manhattan, where she began her acting career.

Career

In the early 1990s, Reyes began her television career with guest starring roles in number of shows, including Law & Order, NYPD Blue, and The Sopranos. She also had a recurring role in Oz as Tina Rivera. She is best known for her portrayal of nurse Carla Espinosa on the NBC comedy Scrubs from 2001 to 2009. She has starred in a number of made for television movies, primarily for Lifetime network, including Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story (2008), and The Pregnancy Project (2012).

After leaving Scrubs, Reyes guest-starred in several shows, including Castle, Medium, Off the Map, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2011 she starred as a mother dealing with the return into her life of her estranged husband after his stint in prison in the independent drama Gun Hill Road. The film is set in Reyes' native Bronx, and its title refers to a real-life street that intersects Bainbridge Avenue on which Reyes herself grew up. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Reyes also had small supporting roles in several films, including Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five (1998), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Washington Heights (2002), and Dirty (2005).

In 2012, Reyes was cast as series regular Zoila Diaz, the senior maid, in the ABC comedy-drama pilot Devious Maids, created by Marc Cherry. On May 14, 2012, the series was not picked up by ABC, but on June 22, 2012, Lifetime ordered a run of thirteen-episodes. The series premiered June 23, 2013. Her character received mixed reviews.

Personal life

Reyes was married to writer/director Edwin M. Figueroa for 11 years before they divorced. Reyes and her boyfriend George Valencia have a daughter, Leila Rey, born on November 27, 2009.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Law & Order	Maria Barragon	Episode: "Sisters of Mercy"
1992	Jack and His Friends	Rosie
1993	Street Justice	Jody	Episode: "Countdown"
1994	The Cosby Mysteries	Laura Montero	Episode: "Only You"
1994	New York Undercover	Helena	Episode: "After Shakespeare"
1996	NYPD Blue	Anna Ortiz	Episode: "Where'd the Van Gogh?"
1996	The Prosecutors	Maria Valquez	TV Movie
1996	No Exit	Maria Lentini	Direct-to-video
1997	Cosby		Episode: "About My Life"
1997	Nothing Sacred	Maritza	Episodes: "Proofs for the Existence of God" and "Song of Songs"
1997	Lena's Dreams	Martisa
1998	Went to Coney Island	Waitress
1999	Mind Prey	Det. Vega	TV Movie
1999	Bringing Out the Dead	ICU Nurse
2000	The Sopranos	Michelle	Episode: "From Where to Eternity"
2000	King of the Jungle	Lydia Morreto
2001	100 Centre Street	Olivia	Episode: "Things Change"
2001	Third Watch	Gina Fuentes	Episodes: "Requiem for a Bantamweight" and "Unfinished Business"
2001	WW 3	Maria Cruz	TV Movie
1999-2002	Oz	Tina Rivera	5 episodes
2002	Washington Heights	Daisy
2003	Blue's Clues	Carmen	Episode: "Blue's Big Car Trip"
2004	King of the Corner	Nurse Kathleen Delehant
2005	Strong Medicine	Jane Lopez	Episode: "Family Practice"
2005	Dirty	Bryant
2006	Our House	Billy	TV Movie
2008	Glow Ropes: The Rise and Fall of a Bar Mitzvah Emcee	Vanessa Dupree	TV Movie
2008	Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story	Luz Cuevas	TV Movie Nominated - Imagen Award for Best Actress - Television
2009	Castle	Theresa Candela	Episode: "Little Girl Lost"
2001-09	Scrubs	Nurse Carla Espinosa	Series regular, 169 episodes ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Series (2006, 2008) Nominated - ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Series (2002, 2009) Nominated - Imagen Award for Best Actress - Television (2005, 2007)
2009	Hawthorne	Vita Gonzalez	Episode: "No Guts, No Glory"
2010	Medium	Jane Livingston	Episode: "Native Tongue"
2011	Gun Hill Road	Angela Rodriguez
2011	Off the Map	Eva Moran	Episodes: "It's Good" and "Es Un Milagro"
2011	Without Men	Magnolia	Direct-to-video
2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Inez Rivera	Episode: "Blood Brothers"
2011	Kaylien	Teacher	Short film
2012	The Pregnancy Project	Juana	TV Movie Nominated - Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actress - Television
2012	Happily Divorced	Teresa	Episode: "Teresa"
2013-present	Devious Maids	Zoila Diaz	Series regular
2015	Jane the Virgin	Dina Milagro	3 episodes
2015	iZombie	Lola Abano	Episode: "Brother, Can You Spare a Brain? "
2015	Fresh Off the Boat	Mindy Torres	Episode: "Good Morning Orlando"

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