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Tessie Santiago (born August 10, 1975 in Miami, Florida in the U.S.) is an American actress of Cuban and Spanish descent. . Tessie Santiago is a first generation American after most of her family fled from Cuba after Fidel Castro took power. Her grandfather was a sculptor, her father a musician and mother a painter and she learnt to play the piano at age seven. She has two younger siblings, a brother and a half-sister. She also owned a pet dog named Zion she rescued while working in Spain on the Queen of Swords. She attended Miami Coral Park High School graduating class of 1993 A May 1999... MORE

Tessie Santiago (born August 10, 1975 in Miami, Florida in the U.S.) is an American actress of Cuban and Spanish descent. . Tessie Santiago is a first generation American after most of her family fled from Cuba after Fidel Castro took power. Her grandfather was a sculptor, her father a musician and mother a painter and she learnt to play the piano at age seven. She has two younger siblings, a brother and a half-sister. She also owned a pet dog named Zion she rescued while working in Spain on the Queen of Swords. She attended Miami Coral Park High School graduating class of 1993 A May 1999 graduate from the University of Miami, she earned a double major in film and theater arts and was able to study Shakespeare in London, England and Film Production with the Faculty of Film and Television of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic. She has always immersed herself in creative endeavors. At university she starred in the independent film Echo and became the resident “It Girl,” acting in many student films. An avid reader of Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin and Milan Kundera are among her favorite authors, she also aspires to work behind the camera, both as a writer and a LESS