Rachel Ticotin

Ticotin is the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and a Polish-Jewish father.{{Cite web |url=https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/glibquips.html |title=Linguistic humor |website=www.ling.upenn.edu |access-date=March 8, 2021}} Her father was a used-car salesman, and she has five siblings. She earned money for acting lessons by working as a babysitter, in addition to managing New York's Public Theater and working as an usher there. She also was a production assistant for some films made in New York.{{cite web |last1=Jasen |first1=Georgette |title=Rachel Ticotin Has High Praise for the School of General Studies |url=https://news.columbia.edu/news/rachel-ticotin-has-high-praise-school-general-studies |website=Columbia News |access-date=May 7, 2023}} In her 50s she enrolled in Columbia University studying English, and graduated in 2019 as the first of six children with a college degree.{{cite news |last1=Sandoval |first1=Edgar |title=Actress Rachel Ticotin will graduate Columbia at age 60: 'I never want to stop learning' |url=https://www.amny.com/news/rachel-ticotin-columbia-1-31393979/ |access-date=May 7, 2023 |work=AMNY |date=May 22, 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Chasan |first1=Aliza |title=60-year-old Bronx woman will be first of six siblings to earn college degree |url=https://pix11.com/news/local-news/60-year-old-bronx-woman-will-be-first-of-six-siblings-to-earn-college-degree/ |access-date=May 7, 2023 |work=Pix11 |date=May 21, 2019}}

In 1978, Ticotin made her film debut as a dancer in the film King of the Gypsies. She also acted in the off-Broadway production of Miguel Piñero's The Sun Always Shines for the Cool. During this period, she received an onscreen credit as a production assistant on Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill. Her first big break came when, working as a production assistant alongside her brother David in 1981, she was given a significant role as Isabella, Paul Newman's love interest in the movie Fort Apache, The Bronx. That same year, she was listed as one of 12 promising new actors in John Willis' Screen World Vol. 33.

In 1983, she landed a regular role on NBC's television drama Love and Honor. Other television series in which she has appeared include: Ohara (1987), Women on the Inside (1991), Crime & Punishment (1993), and Disney's Gargoyles (1994).

Ticotin's film work includes: Critical Condition (1987) as Rachel Atwood, Total Recall (1990) as Melina (alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone), Where the Day Takes You (1992) as Officer Landers, Falling Down (1993) as Detective Sandra Torres (alongside Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall), First Time Felon (1997) as McBride (alongside Omar Epps), and Con Air (1997) (alongside Nicolas Cage and John Malkovich), in which she earned an ALMA Award for her role as prison guard Sally Bishop. In 1995, she played the role of Doña Inez, the Mexican mother of Don Juan, in the tongue-in-cheek romantic comedy Don Juan DeMarco, with Johnny Depp playing the title role.

Ticotin has participated in over 40 films and television series, appearing in Man on Fire (2004), as Mariana, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005). Ticotin was cast as Vangie Gonzalez Taylor in the second season of PBS's television series American Family alongside Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales, Raquel Welch, and Kate del Castillo. Ticotin also appeared on television in season two of the ABC series Lost as Captain Teresa Cortez, mother of Michelle Rodriguez's character Ana Lucia Cortez.

In September 2010, she joined the cast of the NBC legal drama Law & Order: LA as Lieutenant Arleen Gonzales in place of Wanda De Jesus, who originally played the role. Ticotin reshot the scenes originally performed by De Jesus.{{cite news | first=Greg | last=Braxton | title=Rachel Ticotin cast in 'Law & Order: Los Angeles' | date=September 16, 2010 | url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/09/rachel-ticotin-cast-in-law-order-los-angeles.html | work=Los Angeles Times}}{{cite news | first=Nellie | last=Andreeva | title=Rachel Ticotin Joins 'Law & Order: LA' | date=September 16, 2010 | url=https://www.deadline.com/2010/09/rachel-ticotin-joins-law-order-la/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917074429/http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/rachel-ticotin-joins-law-order-la/| url-status=dead| archive-date=September 17, 2010}}

She also played Dr. Marie Cerone on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy in 2018.

She was married to actor David Caruso from 1984 to 1987, with whom she has a daughter (Greta), born in 1984.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gala.de/stars/starportraets/david-caruso-20553292.html|title=David Caruso}} Since 1998, she has been married to actor Peter Strauss.{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/191937%7C0/Rachel-Ticotin/ |title=Overview for Rachel Ticotin |website=Turner Classic Movies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106131726/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/191937%7C0/Rachel-Ticotin/ |archive-date=January 6, 2015}}

ALMA Awards

• 1998: Nominated, “Outstanding Actress in a Made-for-Television Movie or Mini-Series” – First Time Felon
• 1998: Nominated, “Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film” – Con Air

Saturn Award

• 1991: Nominated, “Best Supporting Actress” – Total Recall

Blockbuster Entertainment Award

• 1998: Nominated, “Favorite Supporting Actress in an Action/Adventure Film” – Con Air

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