Andrea Navedo was born and raised in New York City. She received her initial professional education at SUNY Old Westbury. She has studied with Doug Moston at the Drama Project, NYC and with Gloria Maddox at the T. Schreiber Studio, NYC and is a student in the Meisner program here at the Acting Studio.

She has been professionally acting for six years and played the role of Linda Soto on ABC's "One Life to Live". Some of her recent credits include, a guest spot on "NY Undercover" for FOX TV, Georgie in "Spike Heels" and Florinda in "The Rover." Other credits include Yerma in "Yerma", Antigone in "Antigone", Puck in "A Midsummers Night Dream", Estelle in "No Exit", Marianne in "Tartuffe", Meadowlands Theatre Co., Elizabeth in "Laundry and Bourbon", and Carla in "Kennedy's Children."

This past August (1998), Andrea is proud to say that she finished her B.A. in Communicative and Creative Arts. Andrea is also a model, recently booking ads for Clean & Clears, Luvs, Bounty and currently has a commercial airing for the American Cancer Society.

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ANDREA NAVEDO (Maque Sanchez) has recently appeared on two popular daytime dramas, "The Guiding Light" and "One Life to Live." She first appeared professionally as a regular dancer on "Club MTV," and made her feature-film acting debut as the phone-sex girl in Spike Lee's "Girl 6."

A native New Yorker, Navedo graduated from the State University of New York at Old Westbury College. In her freshman year she auditioned for Bertolt Brecht's "The Exception and the Rule" and was cast as the Judge. She then joined the theater department and appeared in many of their stage productions. Navedo, also a talented comedienne, often appears with comic Rich Ramirez and a group of Latin performers whose sketch comedy troupe Salsoul (Salsa and Soul) performs regularly at the famed Carolines comedy club in Manhattan.

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