Rose Portillo

Known for ActingBorn 1953-11-07 (age 72)Los Angeles, California, USA

Rose Portillo is an accomplished American actress/writer/director/educator and visual artist whose stage and film career began with a lead role in Luis Valdez's 'Zoot Suit' (original L.A. and Broadway productions and the film). She played the role of Mother in the critically acclaimed 2017 revival, starring Demián Bichir. She was Associate Director of About Productions, now celebrating 24 years of creating original Theaterworks and founded the company's Young Theaterworks, which serves students in Continuation/Options High Schools primarily in East Los Angeles. Since appearing in Theresa Chavez's solo play, L.A. Real, she has directly partnered with Chavez (the company's Artistic Director) on at least 10 critically acclaimed productions.Read more

Movies & web series

The Rookie

Undone

Encanto

NCIS

Sliders

Marvel's Runaways

Murder, She Wrote

Zootopia+

Home Improvement

Best Kept Secrets

Touched by an Angel

The Mandalorian and Grogu

Numb3rs

Party of Five

Born to the Wind

Seis Manos

Cagney & Lacey

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip

Capital News

Eisenhower and Lutz

Zoot Suit

The Mean Season

Victims

Peak Season

...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

That's Amor

Palomino

Panic in Echo Park

Fathers and Sons

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Seguin