Vanessa Vander Pluym is an actress who portrays Gina Rodriguez in Shades of Blue.
Biography
Born in the beach city of Manhattan Beach and raised in Redondo Beach, Californian, Vanessa has the movie business in her blood. Her great grandmother was a silent movie actress and writer but her interest in performing & acting is all her own.
Vanessa attended the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) obtaining a mechanical engineering degree and was a member of Tau Beta Pi, an exclusive national engineering honors society.
A world class rhythmic gymnast, Vanessa competed for the United States for five years.
Vander Pluym is an expert in martial arts and has a black belt in Tae kwon do to show for it. Vanessa's athleticism is also evident in her abilities as a circus performer, performing stilt walking, contortionist, and aerial acts, as well as in her current sport of roller derby.
As an actress, Vander Pluym is an all-around performer. She is a veteran actor of comedy, drama and action roles. Vanessa has performed motion capture for numerous video game characters and has appeared in an array of television hit shows and feature films including: NCIS: Los Angeles, Southland, Castle, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Piranha 3D.
Appearances
Shades of Blue: Season 1 | ||||||||||
"Pilot": | "Original Sin": | "False Face, False Heart": | "Who Can Tell Me Who I Am": | "Equal and Opposite": | "Fall of Man": | "Undiscovered Country": | ||||
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"Good Cop, Bad Cop": | "Live Wire Act": | "What Devil Do": | "The Breach": | "For I Have Sinned": | "One Last Lie": | |||||
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Shades of Blue: Season 2 | ||||||||||
"Unforgiven": | "Eye of the Hurricane": | "Ghost Hunt": | "Daddy's Girl": | "Sweet Caroline": | "Fracture": | "A House Divided": | ||||
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"Unpaid Debts": | "Chaos is Come Again: | "Whoever Fights Monsters": | "The Quality of Mercy": | "Behind The Mask": | "Broken Dolls": | |||||
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