Malaya Rivera Drew is an American stage, film and television actress.
Drew is best known for her role as Adele Channing on the cable
television series The L Word (2008) and for her role as Katey Alvaro
on NBC's long-running ER (2006â€"2007). She has had recurring roles on
Entourage (2005) and Las Vegas (2006â€"2007).Drew was born in
Washington, D.C. and attended Woodrow Wilson High School (Washington,
D.C.). She has two brothers and her parents are both lawyers. She
attended Middlebury College where she studied English Literature and
Spanish. After graduating college, she moved to London and trained at
the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She left school a term
early when she was cast in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's The
Distance From Here directed by David Leveaux at the Almeida Theatre
(2002).She has appeared on television shows including Law and Order:
SVU as Suzy Fleckner (2003) and CSI: Miami (2004). On CSI she played a
character who was originally named Colleen Mitchell but after the
producers cast Drew, they changed the character's name to Colleen
Mendoza, to reflect Drew's mixed heritage. She also played Angelica
Sandoval on The Inside, with Peter Coyote and Rachel Nichols, for the
Fox network, but the series was never aired.In 2005 she recurred on
the HBO series Entourage and from 2006â€"2007 she was on the NBC show
Las Vegas, playing a new member of the Montecito Casino team with
James Lesure, Josh Duhamel and James Caan. While she was still working
on Las Vegas, she was cast on ER as the new medical student, Katey
Alvaro, who is doing her residency in the ER and has an affair with
another doctor, played by Shane West. She was on ER during seasons 13
and 14.
Drew is best known for her role as Adele Channing on the cable
television series The L Word (2008) and for her role as Katey Alvaro
on NBC's long-running ER (2006â€"2007). She has had recurring roles on
Entourage (2005) and Las Vegas (2006â€"2007).Drew was born in
Washington, D.C. and attended Woodrow Wilson High School (Washington,
D.C.). She has two brothers and her parents are both lawyers. She
attended Middlebury College where she studied English Literature and
Spanish. After graduating college, she moved to London and trained at
the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She left school a term
early when she was cast in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's The
Distance From Here directed by David Leveaux at the Almeida Theatre
(2002).She has appeared on television shows including Law and Order:
SVU as Suzy Fleckner (2003) and CSI: Miami (2004). On CSI she played a
character who was originally named Colleen Mitchell but after the
producers cast Drew, they changed the character's name to Colleen
Mendoza, to reflect Drew's mixed heritage. She also played Angelica
Sandoval on The Inside, with Peter Coyote and Rachel Nichols, for the
Fox network, but the series was never aired.In 2005 she recurred on
the HBO series Entourage and from 2006â€"2007 she was on the NBC show
Las Vegas, playing a new member of the Montecito Casino team with
James Lesure, Josh Duhamel and James Caan. While she was still working
on Las Vegas, she was cast on ER as the new medical student, Katey
Alvaro, who is doing her residency in the ER and has an affair with
another doctor, played by Shane West. She was on ER during seasons 13
and 14.
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