Hi, I’m Andrea.

I’m an actor, and more recently have been writing and directing my own projects, because besides constant auditioning you have to make your own opportunities!

Growing up in a vibrant, Spanish-speaking household filled with artists, I was immersed in storytelling from an early age. My first taste of acting came at four years old when I played Angel #2 - or was it #3 - in my preschool’s nativity play lol, but the real acting bug hit at eleven when I was cast as (insert evil dude character) Jafar in my primary school’s Aladdin Jr. musical — fake beard and all.

Twelve years later, after years of schooling and a brief university stint that ended when I was accepted into drama school, I graduated from Screenwise Film & Television School in 2020 — arguably the worst year to graduate (cough cough, covid…sorry bad covid joke). Despite the challenges, with guidance from industry professionals and rigorous training under my belt, I kept moving forward. I’m a firm believer in creating your own opportunities, which led me to write, direct, and produce my debut short film Bedbound (2023). The film received both national and international recognition, screening at festivals including the Melbourne Women in Film Festival and winning Best Editing at Bulgaria’s Golden Femi Film Festival. Besides directing my own work I have also been lucky to direct other short form content and short films. I recently wrote, directed, and starred in my Spanglish short film Everyone Gets Bored of Everything, currently in the final stages of post-production, while simultaneously developing the feature-length adaptation.

With an artistic voice grounded in empathy, I thrive on crafting emotionally nuanced stories that many people are afraid to tell and explore — stories rooted in shame, pain, embarrassment, passion and everything in between. I’m drawn to these narratives because I want them to stay with audiences when they need them most, to offer comfort or as the artist César A. Cruz so aptly said, “Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.”