Roselyn Sanchez Biography

Fast Facts

• Named Miss Puerto Rico Petite in 1993, and Miss America Petite the following year
• After starring on a popular sitcom in Puerto Rico, she moved to New York in the mid-90s hoping to be an instant success but ended up struggling for a number of years
• Wrote and starred in Out Here on My Own, a one-woman show about her life in the Big Apple that lasted one night
• Her parents visited her for the first time in order to see it
• Landed her first English-speaking role as Pilar Domingo on As the World Turns in 1996
• Released her debut CD, Borinqueña, featuring the single "Amor Amor," in 2003
• Joined the cast of Without a Trace in 2005, playing agent Elena Delgado
• Appeared in a anti-fur ad for PETA in 2007