Justina Machado is a talented and versatile actress who continues to endear audiences and earn critical acclaim for her work on stage, television and film. Machado will soon be seen in the upcoming Blumhouse produced, The Horror of Dolores Roach, as the title character for Amazon. Machado recently hosted The Culture Is: Latina for MSNBC.
Machado starred in the hit comedy One Day at a Time, a reimagining of the Norman Lear classic, opposite Rita Moreno. The Emmy Award-winning series follows three generations of a Cuban American family living under one roof. Machado played Penelope, a newly single war veteran raising her two children with the help of her mother (Moreno). In 2018, Machado earned her first Critics’ Choice Television award nomination. She was also awarded two Imagen Foundation Awards for Best Actress and one for
Justina Machado is a talented and versatile actress who continues to endear audiences and earn critical acclaim for her work on stage, television and film. Machado will soon be seen in the upcoming Blumhouse produced, The Horror of Dolores Roach, as the title character for Amazon. Machado recently hosted The Culture Is: Latina for MSNBC.
Machado starred in the hit comedy One Day at a Time, a reimagining of the Norman Lear classic, opposite Rita Moreno. The Emmy Award-winning series follows three generations of a Cuban American family living under one roof. Machado played Penelope, a newly single war veteran raising her two children with the help of her mother (Moreno). In 2018, Machado earned her first Critics’ Choice Television award nomination. She was also awarded two Imagen Foundation Awards for Best Actress and one for Best Voice-Over Actor, and the show won Best Comedy. Machado and One Day at a Time earned Broadcast Film Critics Association award nominations in 2019.
Machado is also well-known for her role as Vanessa Diaz in HBO’s Six Feet Under. It ended its five-season run in 2005 with an impressive accumulation of award nominations and wins, including a Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Additionally, Machado appeared alongside Gina Rodriguez as Darci Factor in CW’s Emmy Award-nominated comedy series Jane the Virgin and was a series regular on Queen of The South as fan favorite Brenda Parra.
In film, Machado was recently seen in Lifetime’s Switched Before Birth and in Netflix’s All Together Now. Subsequent films include The Purge: Anarchy, released by Universal; Bernard Tevenier’s In The Electric Mist opposite Tommy Lee Jones; The Accidental Husband opposite Uma Thurman; and the independent film Pedro, which debuted at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
Machado has worked extensively on the stage in Chicago, where her thespian career began. Her early theatrical credits include more than twenty productions. In 2009, Machado made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, starring Lin-Manuel Miranda. In 2010 Machado joined the production of award-winning director George C. Wolfe’s A Free Man of Color.
Additional television credits include Superstore, Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty, ER, Welcome to The Family, Private Practice, Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids, Switched at Birth, The Fosters, and Murder Police.
In animation, Machado will be heard on Disney+’s The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Adult Swim/HBO Max’s Tuca & Bertie, DreamWork’s Dragons: The Nine Realms for Hulu and Peacock. Previously, she has voiced roles in SCOOB!, Harley Quinn, and Elena Of Avalor, among others.
Machado currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.
