Ivonne Coll
{{Short description|Puerto Rican actress (born 1947)}}
{{family name hatnote|Coll|Mendoza|lang=Spanish}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ivonne Coll
| image = Ivonne Coll at 2015 PaleyFest.jpg
| caption = Coll at the 2015 PaleyFest presentation for Jane the Virgin
| birth_name = Ivonne Coll Mendoza
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1947|06|18}}
| birth_place = Fajardo, Puerto Rico
| death_date =
| nationality = {{flatlist|
}}
| occupation = Actress
| years_active= 1971–present
| title = Miss Puerto Rico 1967
| website = {{URL|http://www.ivonnecoll.com}}
}}
Ivonne Coll Mendoza (born June 18, 1947) is a Puerto Rican actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Miss Puerto Rico 1967 and competed in the Miss Universe 1967 pageant but did not place. She later became an actress, appearing in films such as The Godfather Part II and Lean on Me and television series including Switched at Birth, Glee, and Teen Wolf. From 2014 to 2019, Coll starred as Alba Villanueva in the CW comedy-drama series Jane the Virgin.
Early years
Coll was born on June 18, 1947, in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, where she received her primary and secondary education. Her mother, Rosita Mendoza, was a celebrated hairstylist in Puerto Rico. She also has a sister, Millie.{{cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/actor-ivonne-coll-on-playing-the-matriarch-on-jane_b_5983d945e4b0f2c7d93f549b?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABneaU7sTCW3HuSijqhUBeI0zTM_wEDCCIu0CmLqzf9IapsbzJwCpkyrB97GiUHmy66ea2Nt9iUxO7L8nD2oOd-tYIGBUXYtljODlYX0QLJtEc7uiDgxICFcHWlmrgq2ApQ6425_AcjAFatyif1fJpZo_RZym1sjA6UrOmqBXzca |title=Actor Ivonne Coll on playing the matriarch on 'Jane the Virgin' at 70 |last=Puga |first=Kristina |date=3 August 2017 |website=HuffPost |access-date=4 November 2019 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/cultura/nota/muerelamadredelaactrizivonnecoll-2076052/ |title=Muere la madre de la actriz Ivonne Coll |language= es |trans-title= The mother of actress Ivonne Coll dies |last=Vargas Casiano |first=Patricia |date=21 July 2015 |website=El Nuevo Día |access-date=4 November 2019 }} After Coll was born, her father left Puerto Rico for New York City, leaving Coll and her mother behind. When Coll was 10, she and her family moved to the capital of Puerto Rico, San Juan; they lived in the Río Piedras and Hato Rey municipalities of the city. {{cite web |url=https://www.popsugar.com/latina/Ivonne-Coll-Her-Puerto-Rican-Background-42229284 |title=Ivonne Coll on Her Puerto Rican Background |last=Coll |first=Ivonne |date=7 October 2016 |website=Popsugar |access-date=4 November 2019 }} Coll was an honor student and graduated from Nuestra Señora del Pilar school. She then enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico (Universidad de Puerto Rico) where she studied Social Sciences. Coll started her career as a fashion model. In 1966, she represented Fajardo in the Miss Puerto Rico pageant and won. Coll remained the only representative from Fajardo to win the national title until Ashley Cariño won in 2022.
Career
=1971–1975: ''Una chica llamada Ivonne Coll''=
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At the end of 1971, the owner of television channel 11 in Puerto Rico, Rafael Perez Perry spotted Coll. His competitor had a show with a young starlet by the name of Iris Chacón. Perez Perry believed that Coll could have a show of her own to compete. Therefore, he sponsored the show which was called Una chica llamada Ivonne Coll (A girl named Ivonne Coll), which ran from 1971 to 1975.
In 1976, Coll moved to Los Angeles, California, where she took dance and singing classes in the Academy of Stage and Cinema Arts. She landed a part in a theater play called "Burning Beach", which was presented in the American Place Theater.
=Career in the United States=
In 1979, Coll moved back to New York, where she participated in various Off Broadway productions such as: Spain 1980, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. In New York, film director Francis Ford Coppola recruited her for the role of "Yolanda", a Havana night club singer in The Godfather II. Although her role was small, the experience would serve her well in the future. She was credited as "Yvonne Coll".
In 1989, Coll played a minor role of a teacher named Mrs. Santos, in the film Lean on Me written by Michael Schiffer, directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Morgan Freeman. She participated in the following productions: Orinoco, The Masses Are Asses (a play by Pedro Pietri), Medio Comuñas, Goodbye Castro, and Pancho Diablo (with Fernando Allende and Sully Diaz).
Coll won an ACE Award for best actress for Orinoco. When not acting, Coll attended the HB Studio and Lee Strasberg's Acting Studio. Among the television series on which she appeared were: Pacific Blue, Crisis Center, An American Family, The Bold and the Beautiful, Chicago Hope, Malibu Shores, NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, and Under Cover.
=Return to Puerto Rico=
When Coll returned to Puerto Rico, she was invited to participate in La verdadera historia de Pedro Navaja and Paper Flowers. She had a role in the locally produced film, La gran Fiesta (The Grand Party), and in the TV show Cuqui. In 2002, she appeared in the film Besos de Fuego.
In October 2006, Coll played the title role in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage at the Berkeley Rep Theater in Berkeley, California. From 2011 to 2014, she had the recurring roles on Switched at Birth, Glee, and Teen Wolf. Beginning in the fall of 2014, Coll become part of the main cast as Alba Villanueva, grandmother of Jane Villanueva, in the CW comedy series, Jane the Virgin.
In 2015, Coll was honored by the organizers of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade with a lifetime achievement award for her long and varied career.
In 2019, Coll moved back permanently to Puerto Rico.{{Cite web|last=VOCERO|first=Jorge Rodríguez, EL|title=Ivonne Coll regresa a casa|url=https://www.elvocero.com/escenario/ivonne-coll-regresa-a-casa/article_5cd5b198-1c5d-11ea-b526-eb64b5205bf4.html|access-date=2020-07-29|website=El Vocero de Puerto Rico|date=December 16, 2019 |language=es}}{{Cite web|title=Ivonne Coll recuerda a Naya Rivera con cariño y admiración|url=https://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/television/notas/ivonne-coll-recuerda-a-naya-rivera-con-carino-y-admiracion/|access-date=2020-07-29|website=El Nuevo Día|date=July 14, 2020 }}
Personal life
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1974
|Yolanda | |
| 1985
|Dona Tula | |
| 1989
|Mrs. Santos | |
| 1990
|Francine Cortez |Television film |
| 1995
|Mexican Woman |Television film |
| 1996
|The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca |Angelina Gonzalez | |
| 1997
|Gladyz | |
| 1997
|Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy |Officer Wilcox |Television film |
| 1998
|Rose Stravelli | |
| 1999
|Dr. Marzuez | |
| 1999
|Mrs. Batista | |
| 2000
|Gisela Higgens | |
| 2000
|Michael Angel |Killan's Mother | |
| 2000
|Details |Mother |Short film |
| 2002
|Mayor Salizar | |
| 2004
|Jesus the Driver |Marisol | |
| 2006
|Mom | |
| 2007
|De pura cepa |Carmen |Short film |
| 2009
|The Night Girl |Esperanza |Short film |
| 2012
|Gypsy Crone |Television film |
| 2013
|Counterpunch |Grandma Daisy | |
| 2014
|Los Scavengers |Remi | |
| 2015
|Abuelita | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1967
|Herself (contestant) |Representative for Puerto Rico |
| 1971–1975
|A girl named Ivonne Coll |Herself | |
| 1990
|DEA |Mrs. Clemente |Series regular, 10 episodes |
| 1990
|Carmen Hijuelos |Episode: "Child's Play" |
| 1990
|Dr. Luisa Hernandez / Mrs. Pena |Episodes: "Money Walks" and "Judgements" |
| 1991
|Mooshta |Episode: "Duet for Cello and Plane" |
| 1994
|Judge Leslie Peyton |Episode: "Silence Is Golden" |
| 1995
|Mrs. Ponce |Episode: "Wild Cards" |
| 1996
|Mrs. Martinez |Episodes: "Cheating Hearts" and "The Competitive Edge" |
| 1996–1997
|Alicia Cortéz |Recurring role |
| 1997
|Janie Sheppard |Episodes: "Where Truth Lies" and "Shots" |
| 1996–1998
|Rosa Del Toro |Recurring role, 3 episodes |
| 1999
|Dr. Maria Hernandez |Episode: "Committed" |
| 2000
|Sonia Lopez |Episode: "The Man with Two Right Shoes" |
| 2000
|Miss Hernandez |Episodes: "Weenis Between Us" and "The High Cost of Living" |
| 2001
|Nelda Ramos |Episode: "Run Ricky Run" |
| 2001
|Ms. Ramirez |Episodes: "Significant Others" and "To Have and to Hold" |
| 2001–2002
|Mrs. Ramirez / Elaine Hunt |Episodes: "There But for Fortune" and "Secrets, Lies and Weddings" |
| 2003
|Nurse Abby Corazon |Episode: "Judging Eric" |
| 2003
|Vanessa's Therapist |Episode: "Death Works Overtime" |
| 2003
|Skin |Amelia |Episodes: "Secrets & Lies" and "Endorsement" |
| 2003
|Marlene |Recurring role, 3 episodes |
| 2005
|Concebida Hernandez |Episode: "Neither Rain Nor Sleet" |
| 2005
|Knitting Grandmother |Episode: "One Angry Veronica" |
| 2006
|Mrs. Salazar |Episode: "Dreamland" |
| 2006
|CSI: Crime Scene Investigation |Marsha Kendric |Episode: "Poppin' Tags" |
| 2007
|Dirt |Cleaning Lady |Episode: "This Is Not Your Father's Hostage Situation" |
| 2007
|Nidia |Episode: "Chapter Two 'Lizards'" |
| 2008
|Rosa Flinn |Recurring role |
| 2009
|ER |Grandmother |Episode: "And in the End..." |
| 2010
|Sonia Espinosa |Episode: "Bombers" |
| 2011–2014
|Adriana Vasquez |Recurring role, 28 episodes |
| 2014
|Araya Calavera |Recurring role, 5 episodes |
| 2011–2015
|Glee |Alma Lopez |Recurring role, 3 episodes |
| 2014–2019
|Alba Villanueva |Series regular |
| 2016
| Doña Angelica | the ghost chef grandmother of Carmen Rosa Guadalupe Guzman and Julio Osvaldo Valentino Guzman, appears in episode 9 "A Day to Remember" |
| 2018
|Esme |Guest starring as the new love interest of Dr. Berkowitz (Stephen Tobolowsky), in episode 7 of Season 2, 'Exclusive'. |
| 2018
|Ms. Camilla |Voice role in episode 7 Season 1, 'La Danse Of Friendship/Shoe La La' |
| 2020
|Mother Angelica |Episode: "Detective Amenadiel" |
See also
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Notes
References
{{Reflist |refs=
{{cite web|access-date=March 6, 2018
|url=http://wiserwithage.com/2017/08/03/actor-ivonne-coll-on-playing-the-matriarch-on-jane-the-virgin-at-70
|title=Actor Ivonne Coll on playing the matriarch on 'Jane the Virgin' at 70
|work=Wiser With Age
|last=Puga|first=Kristin|date=August 3, 2017}}
{{cite news|access-date=March 24, 2018
|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/jane-virgin-season-4-guest-star-teases-spanish-scene-alba-2665725
|title='Jane The Virgin' Season 4: Guest Star Teases Spanish Scene With Alba
|first=Sally|last=Japco |date=March 24, 2018 |work=International Business Times}}
|access-date=November 8, 2014
|url=http://www.prpop.org/biografias/i_bios/ivonne_coll.shtml
|publisher=Fundacion Nacional de la Cultura Popular (National Foundation for Popular Culture)
|work=Biografias
|title=Ivonne Coll profile
|first=Enrique
|last=Feliciano Díaz
|date=June 26, 2014
|archive-date=April 15, 2012
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415094630/http://www.prpop.org/biografias/i_bios/ivonne_coll.shtml
|url-status=dead
}}
|url=http://univisionnews.tumblr.com/post/13545588308/glee-gets-a-controversial-injection-of-latina
|first=Miguel|last=Tamayo|date=November 30, 2011|work=Univision News
|title='Glee' gets a (controversial) injection of Latina flavor from Ivonne Coll
|archive-date=January 27, 2013
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127035446/http://univisionnews.tumblr.com/post/13545588308/glee-gets-a-controversial-injection-of-latina}}
{{cite web|access-date=November 8, 2014
|url=http://www.goodmantheatre.org/artists-archive/creative-partners/actors/ivonne-coll
|title=Ivonne Coll |date=June 2004|work=Artist Bios
|publisher=Goodman Theatre|location=Chicago, IL, USA}}
{{cite web|access-date=July 22, 2015
|url=http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!overview/9153/Lean-on-Me
|title=Lean On Me|publisher=VUDU - Watch Movies}}
{{cite web|access-date=July 22, 2015
|url=https://deadline.com/2014/03/david-cross-set-for-foxs-dead-boss-abcs-richard-lagravenese-cws-jane-the-virgin-add-to-casts-700848/
|date=March 18, 2014 |author=The Deadline Team
|work=Deadline
|title=David Cross Set For Fox's 'Dead Boss'; ABC's Richard LaGravenese & CW's 'Jane The Virgin' Add To Casts}}
{{cite news|access-date=March 25, 2018
|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ivonne-coll-receive-pr-parade-lifetime-achievement-award-article-1.2254878
|work=New York Daily News
|title=Ivonne Coll, 'Jane the Virgin' star, to receive Puerto Rican Day Parade Lifetime Achievement Award
|first=Ray |last=Monell |date=June 11, 2015}}
{{cite news|access-date=March 26, 2018
|url=http://www.latinheat.com/spotlight-news/ivonne-coll-honored-with-lifetime-achievement-award-from-puerto-rican-parade/
|title=Ivonne Coll Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award From Puerto Rican Parade
|date=June 8, 2015 |publisher=LatinHeat Entertainment}}
}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0171583|name=Ivonne Coll}}
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