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Stephanie Sigman

Stephanie Sigman

Mexican and American actress


Stephanie Sigman Conde is a Mexican and American actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 2011 Mexican crime drama film Miss Bala. She has gone on to appear in Pioneer (2013), Spectre (2015), Going Under (2016), and Annabelle: Creation (2017). On television, Sigman starred in Narcos (2015) and S.W.A.T (2017) for the first and second seasons of both series.

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Early life and family

Sigman was born in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora on 28 February 1987 to a Mexican mother and an American father, Lee Sigman, a New York Yankees scout from Kansas. She is a U.S. citizen through her father.[2][3][4] Her brother, baseball player Kenneth Ray Sigman, was formerly married to actress Barbara Mori.[5]


Career

Sigman began her career appearing on Mexican television, before making her film debut in Rio de Oro. In 2011, she played the leading role of Laura Guerrero in the Mexican crime drama film, Miss Bala.[6] The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards,[7][8] but it did not make the final shortlist.[9] Sigman was nominated for a Dublin Film Critics' Circle Award in 2011 for her performance in film.[10][11] The following year, she played Catalina Aguado in the Canadian documentary film Flight of the Butterflies. In 2013, Sigman co-starred in the Norwegian thriller Pioneer.[12]

In 2013, Sigman played the leading role in the USA Network drama pilot The Arrangement opposite Bryan Greenberg.[13] It was not ordered to series. Later that year, she was cast in a recurring role on the FX crime drama series The Bridge. She also starred in the Arctic Monkeys music video for "Snap Out of It" in 2014.[14] In 2015, Sigman played Valeria Vélez, character based on Virginia Vallejo, in the Netflix crime thriller, Narcos.[15][16]

In 2015, Sigman appeared in the James Bond film Spectre,[17] becoming the second Mexican actress to play a Bond girl after Linda Christian first played the role of Valerie Mathis in the 1954 TV adaptation of Casino Royale.[3] She later was cast as a female lead in the action comedy Going Under,[18] as well as War on Everyone.[19]

In 2016, Sigman had a recurring role as Monica Ava during the second season of the ABC anthology drama series American Crime created by John Ridley.[20] Ridley later cast Sigman in the leading role as Presence Foster, the former Army veteran who finds herself as unlicensed Private Investigator, in the ABC detective drama pilot, Presence.[21]

In 2017, Sigman began playing Jessica Cortez, captain and commanding officer of the LAPD Metropolitan Division in S.W.A.T..[22] She exited at the start of the third season, when her character left to pursue FBI training.[23]

Sigman starred as Sister Charlotte in the 2017 horror film Annabelle: Creation.[24]

Personal life

Sigman is married to Brian Andrew Mendoza.[25] They have a child born in 2019.[26]

Filmography

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References

  1. "Stephanie Sigman presume su embarazo desde Roma". Quién. 12 July 2019.
  2. "Miss Bala star Stephanie Sigman rises with a bullet". thestar.com. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  3. "Miss Bala". Rotten Tomatoes. 20 January 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  4. Hecht, John (22 September 2011). "'Miss Bala' Crowned Mexico's Foreign-Language Oscar Submission". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  5. "63 Countries Vie for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar". oscars.org. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
  6. "The Dublin Film Critics Circle Honours Drive". irishtimes.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  7. Ryan Adams (27 December 2011). "Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards 2011". awardsdaily.com.
  8. "Pioneer (12A)". Arrow Film Distributors. British Board of Film Classification. 12 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  9. Grow, Kory (17 June 2014). "Arctic Monkeys Cause a Nervous Breakdown in 'Snap Out of It' Video". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  10. "Entrevista exclusiva con la nueva chica Bond mexicana". www.publimetro.com.mx (in Spanish). Metro International. 12 March 2015. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2015. Hago a Valeria Velez, un personaje distinto basado en la amante de Pablo Escobar, Virginia Vallejo, un personaje importante en Colombia
  11. "STEPHANIE SIGMAN JOINS SPECTRE". www.007.com. Archived from the original on 3 May 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  12. Mike Fleming Jr. "John Goodman & Stephanie Sigman Added To Bruce Willis Comedy Film - Deadline". Deadline. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  13. Denise Petski. "Stephanie Sigman Joins 'American Crime' As Recurring - Deadline". Deadline. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  14. Andreeva, Nellie (12 May 2017). "Actress Stephanie Sigman to Star in S.W.A.T. reboot". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

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