Aimee Sandimés Garcia López de Ordóñez (born November 28, 1978) is
an American actress. She is known for her television roles as Veronica
Palmero on the ABC sitcom George Lopez, Yvonne Sanchez on the CBS
period drama Vegas, Jamie Batista on the Showtime drama Dexter and
Ella Lopez on the Fox-turned-Netflix drama Lucifer.Aimee Garcia was
born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother, Eloisa, is from Pachuca,
Hidalgo, Mexico, and graduated from Northwestern University's dental
school; her father, Hector, is from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was in
the U.S. Armed Forces. Garcia started acting in commercials as a
child, and participated in theater at seven years old. She grew up in
Oak Park, Illinois, where she attended Fenwick High School. While in
school, she took acting classes at Piven Theatre Workshop. She
appeared in local plays and musicals during her time at Northwestern
University, where she triple majored in economics, journalism, and
French. After graduating, she quit acting for a year and did finance
work for a mutual fund analyst in Brooklyn, New York. Unsatisfied with
the job, she moved to Los Angeles, California, around 2002 to pursue
acting as her career.She portrayed Maria on The WB's Greetings from
Tucson, and appeared in the unaired pilot episode of Global Frequency.
She had a role in the Disney Channel original movie Cadet Kelly
(2002), and co-starred, as Lydia, alongside Anthony Anderson in The WB
sitcom All About the Andersons. In 2006, she began appearing on the
series George Lopez, playing Lopez's niece.
an American actress. She is known for her television roles as Veronica
Palmero on the ABC sitcom George Lopez, Yvonne Sanchez on the CBS
period drama Vegas, Jamie Batista on the Showtime drama Dexter and
Ella Lopez on the Fox-turned-Netflix drama Lucifer.Aimee Garcia was
born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother, Eloisa, is from Pachuca,
Hidalgo, Mexico, and graduated from Northwestern University's dental
school; her father, Hector, is from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was in
the U.S. Armed Forces. Garcia started acting in commercials as a
child, and participated in theater at seven years old. She grew up in
Oak Park, Illinois, where she attended Fenwick High School. While in
school, she took acting classes at Piven Theatre Workshop. She
appeared in local plays and musicals during her time at Northwestern
University, where she triple majored in economics, journalism, and
French. After graduating, she quit acting for a year and did finance
work for a mutual fund analyst in Brooklyn, New York. Unsatisfied with
the job, she moved to Los Angeles, California, around 2002 to pursue
acting as her career.She portrayed Maria on The WB's Greetings from
Tucson, and appeared in the unaired pilot episode of Global Frequency.
She had a role in the Disney Channel original movie Cadet Kelly
(2002), and co-starred, as Lydia, alongside Anthony Anderson in The WB
sitcom All About the Andersons. In 2006, she began appearing on the
series George Lopez, playing Lopez's niece.
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