Roselyn Sanchez Bio

2 April 1973, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sanchez started dancing and playing piano as a child. Sanchez was a co-host of Que Vacilon (the top-rated TV show in Puerto Rico). She was a student at the University of Puerto Rico where she studied business and marketing with the intention of becoming the marketing director of her father's company. In the meantime she was a winner of beauty contests, and later quit her studies to move to New York, USA where she performed her one-woman show, Out Here On My Own and gradually establishing her fame. She was able to break into American television by landing the role (Pilar Domingo) in the 1996/7 season on the long-running soap As The World Turns. She also was a part of series like Fame L.A. (1997/8), Ryan Caulfield Year One (1999), Kojak (2006) and reprised parts in Without A Trace (2006) and Dragnet (2006). She was also a co-producer for films such as Hold Up (1999) as well as Rush Hour 2(2001), Boat Trip ((2002), Basic (2003) and Yellow (2006). Although the majority of her time and energy focus on her acting career she also recorded a tasteful album of songsthat was which was released by BMGy Records in 2003. Sanchez has been featured in glamourous pictures in magazines, and has garnered lots of attention due to reasons that aren't related to acting.