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Krysta Rodriguez

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Krysta Rodriguez
The ensemble thriller explores a sinister world where corporate espionage reaches into the homes and minds of its employees. Panic rises as lives are compromised and controlled by a ruthless oligarch who manipulates reality with unsettling pleasure.
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Krysta Anne Rodriguez (born July 23, 1984) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Ana Vargas in the NBC series Smash, Summer Henderson in the NBC series Trial & Error, Maxine Griffin in the ABC series Quantico and Ms. Crumble in the Netflix comedy series Daybreak.

Rodriguez grew up in Orange County, California. She began taking dance lessons at the age of 13, after being involved with cheer-leading in middle school. After traveling to New York and seeing eight Broadway shows, she realized performers had to sing and act as well as dance, so once she returned home Rodriguez began taking singing and acting lessons. She was a cast member of the Christian television show Colby's Clubhouse from 1995 to 2000. She attended Orange County High School of the Arts where she played many lead roles including Marian in The Music Man, as well as the lead role in Gidget: The Musical, a musical co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, that starred Orange County High School of the Arts students during its tryouts in 2000. She attended New York University for a few years, but began working soon after enrolling.

Rodriguez made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 2005 jukebox musical Good Vibrations. She later became a replacement for the role of Bebe in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line in 2007. She has played numerous ensemble and understudy parts in the Broadway productions of Spring Awakening and In the Heights, as well as a regional production of The Boy Friend directed by Julie Andrews. She made her feature film debut in the role of Krysta in the 2010 film The Virginity Hit.

Beginning performances in fall 2009, Rodriguez originated the role of Wednesday Addams in the world premiere Chicago try-out run of the new Broadway-bound musical The Addams Family, based on the cartoons of Charles Addams. From March 2010, the show received its planned debut at New York's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. After playing the role for over a year and lending her voice to the show's original cast recording, Rodriguez left the musical on March 8, 2011 and was replaced by Rachel Potter.

Other credits include an Encores! production of Bye Bye Birdie. Her first television role was a guest appearance as the character Jordan Steele in Gossip Girl. In 2011, Rodriguez starred in the television movie Iceland as Rose, one of a group of friends who reunite to heal and nurture each other after the death of one of their own.

In 2012, Rodriguez starred in another television movie Shadow of Fear as Lauren. The movie is about the push and pull between a schizophrenic new waiter and a popular young waitress. In 2013, she guest starred in the web series created by Mitchell Jarvis and Wesley Taylor, It Could Be Worse. She played an assistant to a Broadway Star named Bridgett/Bridget in two episodes entitled Payment Plan and Let Your Hair Down.

Rodriguez joined the cast of the NBC series Smash for its second, and final, season in 2013, playing the role of Ana Vargas, an aspiring Broadway performer and the new roommate of Katharine McPhee's character Karen.

In July 2013, Rodriguez returned to Broadway playing the lead in First Date the Musical, co-starring with Zachary Levi.

In December 2013, Rodriguez appeared in Hit List, a concert presentation of the fictional musical created for the second season of Smash, as The Diva/Sarah Smith. Rodriguez was scheduled to have a major role in the planned CBS sitcom How I Met Your Dad; a spin-off and successor to the long-running sitcom How I Met Your Mother, but on March 25, 2014 it was announced that Rodriguez had exited the pilot.

Rodriguez guest starred on Married in 2014, as Kim, a friend of a couple desperately trying to save their marriage. On Ian, Rodriguez guest starred as Fly Girl. Additionally, Rodriguez starred in the Lifetime holiday movie entitled Wishin' and Hopin' in the role of Annette Funicello, a teen idol, movie actress and Mickey Mouse Club Mousekteer.

Also, in the fall of 2014 Rodriguez was diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2015, Rodriguez started the website ChemoCouture.com to create a blog detailing her journey during chemotherapy as well as providing various fashion, beauty, and wellness tips that she employs during her battle with cancer. After going public with her diagnosis, Rodriguez was contacted by Cosmopolitan to blog for their Cosmo Online Health and Fitness readers about her experiences.

In 2015, Rodriguez was cast as Vanessa, a straight talking, no-nonsense cancer patient ready to share her truth, in a multi-episode arc in the second season of the ABC Family television show Chasing Life. The season aired in the summer of 2015.

Also in 2015, she played Madison in an episode of Inside Amy Schumer. Krysta also guest starred in an episode of The Mysteries of Laura as April Watkins.

Rodriguez also recently starred in a film entitled My Bakery in Brooklyn in which she plays one of the lead characters, Chloe. The film was released in 2016.

Through June 14, 2015, she returned to star as Ilse in the Deaf West Theatre production of Spring Awakening, held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California. The Los Angeles Times featured her in an article about her return to the production that she helped to create on Broadway. In July 2015, it was announced that the production would be transferring to Broadway with its current cast for a limited engagement at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Rodriguez performed in the Broadway revival September 8, 2015 through its closing on January 24, 2016. The show ran two weeks past its intended run due to its rave reviews, and garnered three Tony Award nominations including Best Revival of a Musical.

Rodriguez performed in the Off-Broadway production of What We're Up Against, a play about how women are treated in the workplace. It shows the inequality of women and how nothing has changed in the past twenty-five years. She played "Eliza, a sharp young architect who new to the firm". The show ran from October 28-December 3, 2017. This was the first time Rodriquez and Skylar Astin worked together since Spring Awakening in 2006.

In 2017, Rodriguez starred as Summer Henderson in the NBC comedy series Trial & Error. In the same year, it was announced that Rodriguez was cast in the recurring role of Maxine Griffin in the second season of ABC's thriller series Quantico.

In 2018, it was announced that Rodriguez was cast in the main role of Ms. Crumble in the Netflix comedy-drama series Daybreak.

Rodriguez made her solo debut at Feinstein's/54 Below from September 10-14, 2019, directed by Ben Rauhala. Special guests included: Kathryn Gallagher, Andy Mientus, Joe Iconis, Megan McGinnis, Jelani Alladin, and Adam Josef Levy.
BornJuly 23, 1984
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    Known for

    Colin Ford in Daybreak (2019)
    Daybreak
    6.7
    TV Series
    • Ms. Crumble
    Kristin Chenoweth, Nicholas D'Agosto, Sherri Shepherd, Jayma Mays, Steven Boyer, and Amanda Payton in Trial & Error (2017)
    Trial & Error
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Summer Henderson
    • Claudia Ramirez
    Anjelica Huston, Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Christian Borle, Leslie Odom Jr., Jennifer Hudson, Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty, Jeremy Jordan, Krysta Rodriguez, and Andy Mientus in Smash (2012)
    Smash
    7.7
    TV Series
    • Ana Vargas
    Amy Schumer in Inside Amy Schumer (2013)
    Inside Amy Schumer
    6.1
    TV Series
    • Madison

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    Actress



    • Lunch Hour
      • Post-production
    • Into the Woods
      • Cinderella
      • Pre-production
    • Out of Order!
      • Sue
      • Post-production



    • Sober Companion
      TV Series
      • Eliza
      • 2022
    • David Alan Basche, Alysia Reiner, Raúl Esparza, Van Hughes, Ashley Nicole Black, and Krysta Rodriguez in Glimpse (2022)
      Glimpse
      4.7
      • Sally
      • 2022
    • Santino Fontana and Krysta Rodriguez in Coup de foudre arrangé (2022)
      Coup de foudre arrangé
      6.7
      TV Movie
      • Mia Rivera
      • 2022
    • Space
      TV Movie
      • Marin
      • 2021
    • Jan, Peppermint, Krysta Rodriguez, Jaymes Mansfield, Ginger Minj, and Brock Hayhoe in The Bitch Who Stole Christmas (2021)
      The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
      5.6
      TV Movie
      • Olivia St. Lapel
      • Maggie Zine
      • 2021
    • Julianne Moore in Histoire de Lisey (2021)
      Histoire de Lisey
      5.9
      TV Mini Series
      • Assistant
      • 2021
    • Ewan McGregor and Gian Franco Rodriguez in Halston (2021)
      Halston
      7.5
      TV Mini Series
      • Liza Minnelli
      • 2021
    • Paul James, Jenna Dewan, and Callie Hernandez in Soundtrack (2019)
      Soundtrack
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Allie
      • 2019
    • Colin Ford in Daybreak (2019)
      Daybreak
      6.7
      TV Series
      • Ms. Crumble
      • 2019
    • Indoor Boys (2017)
      Indoor Boys
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Lacy
      • 2018–2019
    • Josh Zuckerman in Killing Diaz (2018)
      Killing Diaz
      4.9
      • Diaz
      • 2018
    • Priyanka Chopra Jonas in Quantico (2015)
      Quantico
      6.7
      TV Series
      • Maxine Griffin
      • 2017
    • Kristin Chenoweth, Nicholas D'Agosto, Sherri Shepherd, Jayma Mays, Steven Boyer, and Amanda Payton in Trial & Error (2017)
      Trial & Error
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Summer Henderson
      • Claudia Ramirez
      • 2017
    • Younger (2015)
      Younger
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Kim
      • 2016
    • Aimee Teegarden and Krysta Rodriguez in My Bakery in Brooklyn (2016)
      My Bakery in Brooklyn
      4.6
      • Chloe
      • 2016

    Producer



    • Sober Companion
      TV Series
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Laurissa Romain and Granit Lahu in You Were Always (2020)
      You Were Always
      Short
      • producer
      • 2020
    • A Dresser
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019

    Music Department



    • Anthony Ramos in D'où l'on vient (2021)
      D'où l'on vient
      7.2
      • musician: vocal ensemble
      • 2021

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    The Virginity Hit
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    The Virginity Hit
    The Virginity Hit
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    The Virginity Hit
    Bakery in Brooklyn
    Trailer 1:32
    Bakery in Brooklyn
    Trial & Error: Witness List
    Trailer 1:24
    Trial & Error: Witness List
    Trial & Error: The Other Man
    Trailer 1:17
    Trial & Error: The Other Man
    Trial & Error: Plausible Story
    Trailer 1:10
    Trial & Error: Plausible Story

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      • July 23, 1984
      • Orange, California, USA
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      (March 23, 2015) Was cast as cancer patient "Vanessa" on the 2nd season of Chasing Life (2014), about 6 months after she was diagnosed with cancer, herself.

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