Tessie Marie Santiago (born August 10, 1975 in Miami, Florida) is an
American actress of Cuban and Spanish descent.Tessie Santiago is a
first generation American. Her parents and grandparents fled from Cuba
after Fidel Castro took the power of the country in the early 1960s.
Her grandfather was a sculptor. Santiago's father, Joe Santiago, was a
musician and her mother's mother was described as a painter.
(Santiago's mother, Tess Stebbins, went on to earn a college degree
from Barry University as a working adult in Florida and is Executive
Director of Medical Education at the University of Miami Miller School
of Medicine.) Santiago learned to play the piano at age seven.Santiago
has two younger siblings, a brother and a half-sister. 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 Film and TV School of the Academy
of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic. At
university, she starred in the independent film Echo and acted in
several other student films.
American actress of Cuban and Spanish descent.Tessie Santiago is a
first generation American. Her parents and grandparents fled from Cuba
after Fidel Castro took the power of the country in the early 1960s.
Her grandfather was a sculptor. Santiago's father, Joe Santiago, was a
musician and her mother's mother was described as a painter.
(Santiago's mother, Tess Stebbins, went on to earn a college degree
from Barry University as a working adult in Florida and is Executive
Director of Medical Education at the University of Miami Miller School
of Medicine.) Santiago learned to play the piano at age seven.Santiago
has two younger siblings, a brother and a half-sister. 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 Film and TV School of the Academy
of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic. At
university, she starred in the independent film Echo and acted in
several other student films.
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