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Aimee Garcia stars as tough young helicopter pilot Marisa Benez in NBC’s new ensemble medical drama series, "Trauma."
Best known for her role as Andy Garcia's daughter and George Lopez’s niece, Veronica Palmero, on "The George Lopez Show," she is currently the only Latina in her generation to be on syndicated television. In 2007, she was nominated for both an Alma and Imagen Award for "Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series."
Garcia is an actress of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She began at age 7 as a professional dancer in Paul Mejia’s "Cinderella" at the Auditorium Theater, and by age 12 was dancing 20 shows a month as Clara in "The Nutcracker" which led to her first commercial as a dancer. She then began taking acting lessons at the Piven Theater Workshop, whose alumni include John Cusack, Joan Cusack and Jeremy Piven.
In high school, she won the Chicago Tribune’s Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Maria, in the immigrant saga "Journey of the Sparrows." She also starred in "Island of the Blue Dolphins," which was nominated for seven Joseph Jefferson Awards. Garcia’s success in Chicago theater gave her the opportunity to land screen tests for roles in Baz Luhrmann’s "Romeo and Juliet" and the biopic "Selena."
Garcia graduated as a triple major in economics, journalism and French from Northwestern University. There, she built her own summer theater curriculum, and combined her singing and dancing talents to nab the lead role of Diana Morales in "A Chorus Line" for Broadway choreographer Mitzi Hamilton.
Best known for her role as Andy Garcia's daughter and George Lopez’s niece, Veronica Palmero, on "The George Lopez Show," she is currently the only Latina in her generation to be on syndicated television. In 2007, she was nominated for both an Alma and Imagen Award for "Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series."
Garcia is an actress of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She began at age 7 as a professional dancer in Paul Mejia’s "Cinderella" at the Auditorium Theater, and by age 12 was dancing 20 shows a month as Clara in "The Nutcracker" which led to her first commercial as a dancer. She then began taking acting lessons at the Piven Theater Workshop, whose alumni include John Cusack, Joan Cusack and Jeremy Piven.
In high school, she won the Chicago Tribune’s Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Maria, in the immigrant saga "Journey of the Sparrows." She also starred in "Island of the Blue Dolphins," which was nominated for seven Joseph Jefferson Awards. Garcia’s success in Chicago theater gave her the opportunity to land screen tests for roles in Baz Luhrmann’s "Romeo and Juliet" and the biopic "Selena."
Garcia graduated as a triple major in economics, journalism and French from Northwestern University. There, she built her own summer theater curriculum, and combined her singing and dancing talents to nab the lead role of Diana Morales in "A Chorus Line" for Broadway choreographer Mitzi Hamilton.
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Lee we are going to be joined by actress Amy Garcia who's in the new NBC show trauma as Marissa Bennett she's actually joining us on the line right now so let's bring her on shall we good morning how are you hello Amy are you this I am how are you I'm great how are you Lee I'm doing very well thanks so much for stopping on over here thank you for having absolutely so you are playing the helicopter pilot Marissa Bennett's in trauma with tears tonight at nine on NBC you want to describe your character for us a little bit sure she is badass and cool I love her I mean she's a she rose with the boys she's fearless she's an experienced army Iraq veteran she's used to find the coolest black hawks ever and being shot at and landing safely and she gets to throw a white punch to her coast our close credit so I pretty much hope to one day be as cool as Marissa Bennett you got a love like those badass characters I love it and this show as I was speaking with the executive leadership Jeff Reiner last week I was talking about this show and it's just like it's so it's so real that it's not fake I think when you watch it you know it is and go ahead no I was I was gonna say it's so it's so real it's not fake because it's just like you you're actually seeing these guys go straight into the action how can you fake that and with everybody there that you with all the EMTs and all that stuff that is surrounding you that is helping you guys and from what I understand it is like you guys are now getting it down and exactly what these guys do day in and day out when all this stuff happens so it's like it's very it's very exciting and it's it has a rush to it it does I mean in a pilot episode we actually shut down a major freeway in San Francisco and staged a five story tanker explosion and that's what you usually see in big budget movies and that's what we're doing for a tv show and if you see the characters one one from a huge fireball it's actually the actors running away from a huge fireball where we can feel the embers in the back of our neck and yeah it's pretty it's pretty intense I mean it's like a war zone out there and and you're right a lot of our paramedics on the show which you'll see tonight are actual paramedics they're actually empty the people who come play firefighters or actual firefighters you know we don't have computer generated helicopter production has actually bought my 212 utility bell and I'm sitting inside a helicopter so it's a very real almost documentary like show which you're right you can't fake but we don't even know where the camera is at the time because most of the time I'm hanging from a four story crane inside out after that you know I'm the last thing on my mind is where's the camera and is my hair look good I'm thinking I really hope that this crane operator is professional because you're not Madonna right exactly exactly and you you just described me that to me I'm like oh my god they get to they actually get to do that you said like fireballs I'm feeling all that stuff behind you and I'm like there's no stunt man or stunt woman that come in and all that stuff that's just all you guys yeah I mean we do have some people but for the most part I mean I'm constantly looking for an always skin that girl and I don't see one I'm like where am I comfortable to do this you know car chasing scene like oh no no you're gonna be in the car and I'm thinking oh okay cool we're welcome to trauma you know so but I think I think that the audience will pick up on that I mean we're not you know diva actors asking you know for our martinis I'm sad we're like out there and I have a bruise it's most unsexy thing on my leg the size of a softball and that's because I have an incident in them in the helicopter and the controls are we're hitting all over the place so I think that the audience will pick up on that and think because we don't have time to act because we're too busy reacting a lot of times even when the helicopter rotors around we can't hear each other so I'm literally giving hand signals to Derek Luke who's giving you know hand signals to Cliff so that we can see each other's lines on time and and that's really what these paramedics have to deal with they're now walking into a cushy operating room they're walking into you know a middle of a game shooting it's not pretty I mean it's always kind of raw and you have to improvise and as actors we have to improvise as well so there's a very kind of like I said documentary kind of feel to it but we're getting better and better with the with the medicine and you know hopefully the paramedics will uh well so that we're on the right track absolutely yeah this sounds this sounds exciting and you know a lot of a lot of the fans up there would remember you best I I do specifically obviously because this was one of my favorite shows when you play Veronica on George Lopez loved that show loved your character on there definitely how you were just describing the diva actors and actresses it just made me think Veronica so much I don't mean that in the bad way obviously but I just love that character and what was it like what was it like doing that show and working with George Lopez in the last season well it was great I mean I've played Andy Garcia's daughter and George Lopez's niece and when you go to work Andy Garcia is saying I really think we should enter this scene with you piggy back in me and I'm thinking who am I to deny Andy Garcia and his wishes you know he's busy with me on his back you know so I just um I mean it was great I'm in between Oscar nominated Andy Garcia and you know Emmy nominated George Lopez and for me it was a dream come true because there's not too many Latin characters who are millionaires and here I am getting to play you know a character similar to Reese Witherspoon and legally blonde and be all about my clothes and all about you know my hair and I just thought this is a dream so yeah we just need signs of instantication so George is feeling pretty cool right now nice would you uh would you say that being a part of that show and working with George Lopez and Andy Garcia um they helped you as far as more and more in the acting field would you say your role now in trauma kind of helped uh your your role on George Lopez and working with them helped with what you're doing right now do you attribute that to that absolutely 100% in fact the reason I got this role according to the producers is because of my comedic timing which you wouldn't think of you know action medical drama and NBC um to be funny but a lot of these things have incredible sense of the humor because they have to I mean every day they're dealing with severed body parts every day they're dealing with deaths every day they're dealing with you know um you know people on on a bad day and some they can save and some they can't and in order to get through the day they have to release and their form of release is sense of humor so I walked into the audition and um and often my Navy field buddies are some of the funniest people I know um for the thing you know they've been in the mud they've been in the thick of it so they have nothing um is that bad compared to being overseas and putting your life on the line every single day so I kind of took that into the audition and they said you know everyone was telling the story this worst story so seriously but you walked in like uh I just kind of threw it away and it was so funny and um and I think that that's what actually got me the role and not to say that being a soldier appear meta or being a paramedic is a funny matter but they have a very macabre morbid dark sense of humor uh they have I mean you know they could walk into the scene of a car accident and you know and you know Lee's head is there and Lee's foot is over there and it's uh it's a little disconcerting you know for the average layperson but that's what these thieves will deal with every day they see human bodies in their most distorted um awkward you know positions and so um they have to joke about it because they're not they're heroes but they're humans you know and that's what the show is about it's about the human behind the hero so um so yeah I definitely credit George Lopez and Amy Garcia for helping me get this Peter Bird dig absolutely that's absolutely fantastic so guys make sure you guys check out Amy Garcia on trauma tonight at 9 p.m. eastern time on NBC you can catch it online at nbc.com or hula.com if you do miss it live Amy Garcia thank you so much for joining us this morning it's a pleasure thank you Lee thanks all right you guys we're going to transition this over to mr. media interviews where Amy Garcia is actually going to continue the fun over there so make sure you guys check him out right now so head on over to mr. media interviews right now on the same network about grated.com on the velvety they will be back in a half an hour with Amy Garcia's co-star Derek Luke he plays the role of Cameron Boone on trauma so we'll be talking to him in a half an hour from now so make sure you guys come on back we'll see you in half an hour all right take care we'll be back in half an hour
Aimee Garcia stars as tough young helicopter pilot Marisa Benez in NBC’s new ensemble medical drama series, "Trauma."
Best known for her role as Andy Garcia's daughter and George Lopez’s niece, Veronica Palmero, on "The George Lopez Show," she is currently the only Latina in her generation to be on syndicated television. In 2007, she was nominated for both an Alma and Imagen Award for "Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series."
Garcia is an actress of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She began at age 7 as a professional dancer in Paul Mejia’s "Cinderella" at the Auditorium Theater, and by age 12 was dancing 20 shows a month as Clara in "The Nutcracker" which led to her first commercial as a dancer. She then began taking acting lessons at the Piven Theater Workshop, whose alumni include John Cusack, Joan Cusack and Jeremy Piven.
In high school, she won the Chicago Tribune’s Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Maria, in the immigrant saga "Journey of the Sparrows." She also starred in "Island of the Blue Dolphins," which was nominated for seven Joseph Jefferson Awards. Garcia’s success in Chicago theater gave her the opportunity to land screen tests for roles in Baz Luhrmann’s "Romeo and Juliet" and the biopic "Selena."
Garcia graduated as a triple major in economics, journalism and French from Northwestern University. There, she built her own summer theater curriculum, and combined her singing and dancing talents to nab the lead role of Diana Morales in "A Chorus Line" for Broadway choreographer Mitzi Hamilton.
Best known for her role as Andy Garcia's daughter and George Lopez’s niece, Veronica Palmero, on "The George Lopez Show," she is currently the only Latina in her generation to be on syndicated television. In 2007, she was nominated for both an Alma and Imagen Award for "Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series."
Garcia is an actress of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She began at age 7 as a professional dancer in Paul Mejia’s "Cinderella" at the Auditorium Theater, and by age 12 was dancing 20 shows a month as Clara in "The Nutcracker" which led to her first commercial as a dancer. She then began taking acting lessons at the Piven Theater Workshop, whose alumni include John Cusack, Joan Cusack and Jeremy Piven.
In high school, she won the Chicago Tribune’s Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Maria, in the immigrant saga "Journey of the Sparrows." She also starred in "Island of the Blue Dolphins," which was nominated for seven Joseph Jefferson Awards. Garcia’s success in Chicago theater gave her the opportunity to land screen tests for roles in Baz Luhrmann’s "Romeo and Juliet" and the biopic "Selena."
Garcia graduated as a triple major in economics, journalism and French from Northwestern University. There, she built her own summer theater curriculum, and combined her singing and dancing talents to nab the lead role of Diana Morales in "A Chorus Line" for Broadway choreographer Mitzi Hamilton.