Watch Trini Alvarado Videos. Free Celebrity Videos Online. Pictures. Bio. Filmography. OVGuide.

Biography: Trini Alvarado

A dark-haired starlet whose beauty recalls that of Andie MacDowell, multi-talented stage and screen actress Trini Alvarado has been appearing onscreen since the late '70s, though it wasn't until the following decade that her star truly began to shine. Born in New York City in July of 1967, Alvarado's father was a Spanish singer and her mother a Puerto Rican dancer. The precocious youngster made her stage debut in her parents flamenco troupe at age seven, and by age nine made her professional stage debut in the musical Becca. Alvarado would refine her skills at New York City's Professional Children's School, and subsequently continue her studies at Fordham University. By age 11, the burgeoning young actress had landed her first leading role on Broadway (in Joseph Papp's Runaways) and made her film debut (an uncredited role in 1977's The Magic Pony Ride). Blessed with a remarkable singing voice that virtually ensured a stellar career on Broadway, Alvarado would nevertheless gravitate ever closer to a career in film. Following an impressive lead as a child of divorce struggling to understand her situation in 1979's Rich Kids, it seemed that Alvarado celluloid career was on the rise. And though she would follow up with a handful of roles in made-for-television features in addition to roles in such notable theatrical releases as Mrs. Soffel (1984), Sweet Lorraine (1987), and Stella (1990), it seems that both critics and audiences had yet to recognize that talent so obvious to the directors who hired her. The release of 1994's Little Women proved a bit of a turning point in terms of audience recognition, and her role as the oldest sister was a perfect showcase for Alvarado's remarkable versatility and dramatic ability. Joining another, albeit more nontraditional family with the release of the following year's The Perez Family, Alvarado's turn as a Cuban refugee seeking asylum in the United States showed she could hold her own alongside such talented co-stars as Anjelica Huston and Alfred Molina. Though the following year's The Frighteners may not have been a box-office smash, Alvarado did fare well in the role of a grieving widow doing battle with the undead. With the exception of Paulie, Alvarado's subsequent roles were in the made-for-television features The Christmas Tree (1996), The Last Dance (2000), and Bitter Winter (2001). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide less

Find videos of Trini AlvaradoFree Trini Alvarado videos

Movies (14)
Videos

The Perez Family (1995)
Cast: Alfred Molina Mira Nair Anjelica Huston Chazz Palminteri
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Urban Comedy
Length: 112min
Old and new loves are turned upside down through a complex case of mistaken identities in this omantic comedy-drama. In 1980, Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina) is released from a Cuban prison after spending 20 years behind bars and is allowed to join a...
Find Videos

The Frighteners (1996)
Cast: Peter Jackson Michael J. Fox Robert Zemeckis
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror Comedy Horror
Length: 109min
Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild...
Find Videos

Little Women (1994)
Cast: Winona Ryder Susan Sarandon
Tags: Coming-of-Age Romance Drama Period Film Family Drama
Length: 118min
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about a family of women in Civil War-era New England is again brought to the screen in this adaptation. The focus is on the March sisters, four young girls raised by their mother (Susan Sarandon) after their father...
Find Videos

American Friends (1993)
Tags: Satire Comedy Romance
Length: 95min
Monty Python's Michael Palin plays an Oxford don with acute female trouble in American Friends. While on holiday in the Swiss Alps, Palin crosses the path of American tourist Connie Booth and her adopted daughter Trini Alvarado. Both women express an...
Find Videos

Stella (1989)
Cast: John Goodman Bette Midler
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 109min
Bette Midler stars as Stella Claire, a working class, fun-loving barmaid in northern New York State. A brief affair with handsome Stephen Dallas (Stephen Collins) produces a daughter, Jenny (Trini Alvarado), who Stella insists upon raising alone,...
Find Videos

The Chair (1988)
Tags: Supernatural Horror Prison Film Horror
Length: 100min
In this supernatural prison drama, a correctional facility is reopened after being closed for over twenty years. It was shut down after a terrible uprising culminated with the execution of the brutal warden in the electric chair. The new leader was...
Find Videos

The Babe (1992)
Cast: Peter Donat
Tags: Biopic Drama Sports Drama
Length: 115min
John Goodman is cast as the Sultan of Swat, whose excesses -- especially drinking -- and private demons can (in this context) be excused in view of his genuine love of baseball. The facts never get in the way of a good story for screenwriter John...
Find Videos

Satisfaction (1988)
Cast: Liam Neeson Julia Roberts
Tags: Comedy Drama Teen Movie Rock Musical
Length: 93min
TV's sitcom teen (Family Ties) Justine Bateman is cast as the leader of a four-girl/one-guy rock band who's first real gig is an all-summer job playing at a resort club. The gig includes living accommodations--one room--which the entire band shares...
Find Videos

Sweet Lorraine (1987)
Cast: Maureen Stapleton
Tags: Slice of Life Comedy Drama Americana
Length: 91min
The elderly owner of an aging but still beloved Catskill's landmark inn must decide whether to make necessary repairs to the hotel or to sell the land to developers. Meanwhile the owner's granddaughter toils in the hotel kitchen for the summer and the...
Find Videos

Mrs. Soffel (1984)
Cast: Mel Gibson Edward Herrmann Diane Keaton
Tags: Crime Drama Prison Film Period Film Romantic Drama
Length: 110min
Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the inmates,...
Find Videos

Trini Alvarado

Biography: Trini Alvarado

Searching for videos...

Related Clips

Share This Page

Video Search