Jennifer Paredes

{{Short description|American actress}}

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| name = Jennifer Paredes

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1991|1|13}}

| birth_place = San Diego, California, U.S.

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| education =

| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|musician}}

| years_active = 2008–present

| known_for = Theatrical performances throughout the United States

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| awards = Craig Noel Award for Actor of the Year, Female

| website = {{url|jenniferparedesactor.com}}

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Jennifer Paredes (born January 13, 1991) is an American actress who appeared as Hero in Denver Center for the Performing Arts' production of Much Ado About Nothing, Helena in Stages Repertory Theatre's The River Bride, and Matilde in Portland Stage's The Clean House. Paredes won a Craig Noel Award for Actor of the Year for her performances in Diversionary Theatre's production of Ballast and as Viola in Old Globe's tour of Twelfth Night.

Early life

Paredes grew up in Chula Vista, California{{Cite web |last=Hebert |first=James |date=2017-10-08 |title=Jennifer Paredes le pone acento latino al teatro local |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2017/10/08/jennifer-paredes-le-pone-acento-latino-al-teatro-local/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}} after her parents immigrated from Peru and Tijuana.{{Cite web |last=Hebert |first=James |date=2017-10-08 |title=A bold performer takes on the Bard in Globe's touring 'Twelfth Night' |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/sd-et-theater-globeengage-20170927-story.html |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}} She became interested in acting during her senior year before graduating from Otay Ranch High School in 2008.{{Cite web |last=Brents |first=Phillip |date=2016-09-22 |title=South County actress's star is on the rise in San Diego REP production of 'Manifest Destinitis' |url=https://www.thestarnews.com/south-county-actresss-star-is-on-the-rise-in-san-diego-rep-production-of-manifest-destinitis/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=The Star-News |language=en-US}}

Career

= Theater performance =

Early in her career, Paredes performed in The House Theatre of Chicago's West Coast premiere of The Nutcracker with Edred Utomi and in Manifest Destinitis, a Herbert Sigüenza adaptation of The Imaginary Invalid. In 2016, she was nominated for two Craig Noel Awards for her performances in Lydia and Seven Spots on the Sun. After studying acting at University of San Diego, Paredes made her Old Globe Theatre debut in 2017, portraying Viola in Twelfth Night and winning a Craig Noel Award for Actor of the Year, Female. The following year she performed in American Mariachi with Doreen Montalvo and in El Huracán by Charise Castro Smith at Yale Repertory Theatre under the direction of Laurie Woolery and co-starring Maria-Christina Oliveras.{{Cite web |last=Leininger |first=Tim |date=2018-10-11 |title=STAGE REVIEW: 'El Huracán' is a good play despite its steady diet of anger |url=https://www.journalinquirer.com/public/stage-review-el-hurac-n-is-a-good-play-despite-its-steady-diet-of-anger/article_8f048614-cc98-11e8-b78c-5ff69672fbca.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425022123/https://www.journalinquirer.com/public/stage-review-el-hurac-n-is-a-good-play-despite-its-steady-diet-of-anger/article_8f048614-cc98-11e8-b78c-5ff69672fbca.html |archive-date=2023-04-25 |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Journal Inquirer |language=en}}

= Music and film =

Paredes contributed music to the film Weigh Down. She did the same in theater for American Mariachi{{Cite web |last=Hebert |first=James |date=2018-03-31 |title=Review: Old Globe's 'American Mariachi' a vibrant ode to music and memory |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/sd-me-review-globe-20180330-story.html |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}} and played a ukulele in Logan Heights. In 2016, she appeared in the film South of 8 by Tony Olmos.

Stage credits

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Location

!Notes

2013

|Logan Heights

|Dalia Rosales

|OnStage Playhouse, Chula Vista, California

|{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Jeff |date=2013-09-23 |title=Logan Heights at OnStage Productions {{!}} San Diego Reader |url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2013/sep/23/theater-logan-heights-onstage-productions/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=San Diego Reader |language=en}}

2014

|The Nutcracker

|Phoebe

|New Village Arts Theatre, Carlsbad, California

|Featuring Edred Utomi and Brian Patrick Butler{{Cite web |last=Kragen |first=Pam |date=2014-12-01 |title=Review: 'Nutcracker' musical is bittersweet |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/sdut-new-village-arts-nutcracker-review-2014dec01-htmlstory.html |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}}

rowspan="5" |2016

|Rapture, Blister, Burn

|Avery Willard

| rowspan="2" |San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Diego, California

|{{Cite web |last=Lowerison |first=Jean |date=2016-05-09 |title=Theater Review: 'Rapture, Blister, Burn' {{!}} San Diego Gay and Lesbian News |url=https://sdgln.com/entertainment/2016/05/05/theater-review-rapture-blister-burn |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509075356/https://sdgln.com/entertainment/2016/05/05/theater-review-rapture-blister-burn |archive-date=2016-05-09 |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=San Diego Gay and Lesbian News}}

Manifest Destinitis

|Angelica / Luisa

|Herbert Sigüenza adaptation of The Imaginary Invalid

Lydia

|Ceci

|Ion Theatre, San Diego, California

|{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Jeff |date=2016-06-20 |title=Starkly real to poetically hallucinatory {{!}} San Diego Reader |url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2016/jun/20/theater-lydia-ion-theatre-blkbox/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=San Diego Reader |language=en}}

September and Her Sisters

|September

|Scripps Ranch Theatre, San Diego, California

|Part of "Out on a Limb", written by Jennifer Lane{{Cite web |last=Hebert |first=James |date=2015-07-15 |title=Quick tip: Locally sourced drama |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2015/07/15/quick-tip-locally-sourced-drama/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250223075251/https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2015/07/15/quick-tip-locally-sourced-drama/ |archive-date=2025-02-23 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=September and Her Sisters |url=https://www.workshoptheater.org/september-and-her-sisters |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=The Workshop Theater |language=en-US}}

Seven Spots on the Sun

|Monica

|InnerMission Productions, San Diego, California

|{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Jeff |date=2016-11-29 |title=All kill the same {{!}} San Diego Reader |url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2016/nov/29/theater-seven-spots-sun-innermission-productions/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=San Diego Reader |language=en}}

rowspan="5" |2017

|Waking la Llorona

|Doctor E.S. Moctezuma

|The Old Globe Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego, California

|Without Walls Festival{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-08-23 |title=The Old Globe to Present David Israel Reynoso's Immersive WAKING LA LLORONA |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/san-diego/article/The-Old-Globe-to-Present-David-Israel-Reynosos-Immersive-WAKING-LA-LLORONA-20170823 |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=BroadwayWorld |language=en}}

Perfect Arrangement

|Norma

|Intrepid Theatre, San Diego, California

|{{Cite web |last=Hebert |first=James |date=2017-02-12 |title=Review: Timely 'Perfect Arrangement' inspires uneasy laughs at Intrepid |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/sd-me-review-intrepid-20170212-story.html |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}}

Into the Beautiful North

|Vampi

|San Diego Repertory Theatre

|{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Jeff |date=2017-04-12 |title=Into the Beautiful North has a little Oz {{!}} San Diego Reader |url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/apr/12/theater-into-beautiful-north/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=San Diego Reader |language=en}}

Ballast

|Savannah

|Diversionary Theatre, San Diego, California

|{{Cite web |last=Hebert |first=James |date=2017-05-15 |title=Wisdom and wit lift Diversionary's 'Ballast' |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/sd-me-review-ballast-20170515-story.html |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}}

Twelfth Night

|Viola

|Old Globe's tour in San Diego, California

|

rowspan="4" |2018

| rowspan="2" |American Mariachi

| rowspan="2" |Lucha

|Stage Theatre at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, Colorado

|Featuring Doreen Montalvo{{Cite web |last=Ostrow |first=Joanne |date=2018-02-07 |title=Review: In world premiere of DCPA's "American Mariachi," music marks a family's generational journey |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/07/review-in-world-premiere-of-dcpas-american-mariachi-music-marks-a-familys-generational-journey/ |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426182642/https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/07/review-in-world-premiere-of-dcpas-american-mariachi-music-marks-a-familys-generational-journey/ |archive-date=2023-04-26 |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=The Denver Post |language=en-US}}

The Old Globe Theatre

|{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.nbcsandiego.com/entertainment/the-scene/_american-mariachi_-makes-world-debut-at-old-globe_san-diego/43689/ |title='American Mariachi' Makes World Debut at Old Globe |language=en-US |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=NBC 7 San Diego}}{{Cite web |last=Launer |first=Pat |date=2018-04-01 |title=Hermanas Are Doin' It for Themselves in 'American Mariachi' at The Old Globe |url=https://timesofsandiego.com/arts/2018/03/31/hermanas-are-doin-it-for-themselves-in-american-mariachi-at-the-old-globe/ |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=Times of San Diego |language=en-US}}

El Huracán

|Alicia / Dr. Kempler / Val

|Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut

|Written by Charise Castro Smith, directed by Laurie Woolery, featuring Maria-Christina Oliveras

Froggy

|

|La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, California

|Staged reading

rowspan="5" |2019

|Native Gardens

|Tania Del Valle

| rowspan="2" |Florida Repertory Theatre, Fort Myers, Florida

|{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-04-15 |title=2's Review: 'Native Gardens' |url=https://nbc-2.com/nbc-2-wbbh/2019/04/15/2s-review-native-gardens/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=WBBH-TV |language=en-US}}

Loving and Loving

|Maya

|{{Cite web |last=Cristi |first=A. A. |date=2019-04-18 |title=Florida Rep Announces Casts And Directors For 2019 PlayLab Festival |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/ft-myers-naples/article/Florida-Rep-Announces-Casts-And-Directors-For-2019-PlayLab-Festival-20190418 |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=BroadwayWorld |language=en}}

The River Bride

|Helena

|Yeager Theater at Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston, Texas

|{{Cite web |last=Garza |first=Natalie de la |date=2019-01-26 |title=The River Bride Brings a Little "Once Upon a Time" Magic to Stages |url=https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/things-to-do-a-review-of-the-river-bride-at-stages-repertory-theatre-11202745 |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Houston Press |language=en}}

The Clean House

|Matilde

|Portland Stage, Portland, Maine

|{{Cite web |last=Verdino-Süllwold |first=Carla Maria |date=2012-09-30 |title=Review: Portland Stage Opens Season with THE CLEAN HOUSE |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/maine/article/BWW-Review-Portland-Stage-Opens-Season-with-THE-CLEAN-HOUSE-20190930 |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=BroadwayWorld |language=en}}

The Straights

|Phoebe

|JACK, Brooklyn, New York

|{{Cite web |last=Shaw |first=Helen |date=2019-12-14 |title=At the Armory, Judgment Day Shows Its Cast No Mercy |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/theater-reviews-judgment-day-and-the-straights.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426055149/https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/theater-reviews-judgment-day-and-the-straights.html |archive-date=2023-04-26 |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}{{Cite news |last=Collins-Hughes |first=Laura |date=2019-12-13 |title='The Straights' Review: On the Road With No Sense of Direction |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/theater/the-straights-review.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214015008/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/theater/the-straights-review.html |archive-date=2019-12-14 |issn=0362-4331}}

2020

|Hurricane Diane

|Beth Wann

|The Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, San Diego, California

|{{Cite web |last=Tauber |first=Eric George |date=2020-02-17 |title=Swept up in 'Hurricane Diane' |url=https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2020/02/17/swept-up-in-hurricane-diane/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=San Diego Jewish World |language=en-US}}

2022

|Much Ado About Nothing

|Hero

|Denver Center for the Performing Arts

|{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Dillon |date=2022-09-14 |title='Much Ado About Nothing' gets a modern take at DCPA |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/much-ado-about-nothing-modern-take-denver-center-for-the-performing-arts/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=KCNC-TV |language=en-US}}

Filmography

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Ref.

2012

|Inch

|Alisa

|

2013

|The Violation

|Lia

|

2014

|A Very Grimm Christmas

|Daisy

|

rowspan="2" |2015

|Yesternow

|Mom

|

Too Young

|Blair

|

rowspan="2" |2016

|A Life Lived

|Personal Assistant

|

South of 8

|Emma

|{{Cite web |last=Black |first=Emilie |date=2017-02-17 |title=South of 8 (2016) [San Diego Film Week 2017] – Cinema Crazed |url=https://www.cinema-crazed.com/blog/2017/02/17/south-of-8-2016-san-diego-film-week-2017/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=Cinema Crazed |language=en-US}}

rowspan="4" |2017

|The Playground

|Auto Mechanic Clerk

|

Weigh Down

|Jenna Young

|

Her Face

|Annette

|

INvisible

|

|

2020

|Wander

|Waitress

|

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! colspan="6" style="background:#B0C4DE;" |List of awards and nominations

|+Accolades

!Event

!Year

!Award

!Title

!Result

!Ref.

rowspan="3" |The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle

|2017

|Craig Noel Award for Actor of the Year, Female

|Twelfth Night, Ballast

|{{won}}

|{{Cite web |last=Garin |first=Nina |date=2018-02-13 |title=Craig Noel Awards Honor San Diego Theater |url=https://www.kpbs.org/news/midday-edition/2018/02/13/craig-noel-awards-honor-san-diego-theater-2017-sho |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=KPBS Public Media |language=en}}

rowspan="2" |2016

|Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play, Female

|Lydia

|{{nom}}

| rowspan="2" |{{Cite web |last=Eadie |first=Bill |date=2017-01-01 |title=Critics Circle Announces 2016 Craig Noel Award Nominations – San Diego Story |url=https://sandiegostory.com/critics-circle-announces-2016-craig-noel-award-nominations/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=San Diego Story}}

Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play, Female

|Seven Spots on the Sun

|{{nom}}

San Diego Film Awards

|2014

|Student Film Award: Best Supporting Actress

|Inch

|{{won}}

|

References

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