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Majandra Delfino (born Maria Alejandra Delfino; February 20, 1981) is an Alma Award-nominated Venezuelan-American actress and singer best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on the television series Roswell and Georgia's best friend, Jo Pye on the State of Georgia.
Delfino was born in Caracas, Venezuela, the daughter of an entrepreneur, and emigrated to the United States in the mid 1980s. She was nicknamed "Majandra" by her elder sister, Marieh, who is also an actress. Marieh could not pronounce her full name, and so the nickname stuck. She is half Cuban and half Venezuelan.
She attended MORE
Majandra Delfino (born Maria Alejandra Delfino; February 20, 1981) is an Alma Award-nominated Venezuelan-American actress and singer best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on the television series Roswell and Georgia's best friend, Jo Pye on the State of Georgia.
Delfino was born in Caracas, Venezuela, the daughter of an entrepreneur, and emigrated to the United States in the mid 1980s. She was nicknamed "Majandra" by her elder sister, Marieh, who is also an actress. Marieh could not pronounce her full name, and so the nickname stuck. She is half Cuban and half Venezuelan.
She attended Ransom Everglades and New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. She married actor Devon Gummersall in 2007, who played her character's cousin in Roswell. They divorced in 2008.
On March 18, 2011, Delfino married actor and Quarterlife co-star David Walton in Miami. On January 2012 Delfino and Walton are expecting their first child.
Delfino started playing Maria Deluca on Roswell, where on hiatus she starred in the small but memorable role of Vanessa in Traffic as well as Natalie in The Secret Life of Girls. She also acted in Reeseville, Celeste in the City, The Tony Danza Show, and R.S.V.P., LESS
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