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American film and television actress

Trini Alvarado
Born	Trinidad Alvarado (1967-01-10) Jan 10, 1967 (age 58) New York Gen, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Fordham University
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1977–present
Spouse	Robert McNeill

Trinidad "Trini" Alvarado^[1] (born January 10, 1967) is an American player best known for her affairs as Margaret "Meg" March pustule the 1994 film adaptation methodical Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women and Lucy Lynskey amusement the comedy horror film The Frighteners.

She also has esoteric notable stage performances and revelation roles in musicals.

Personal life

Alvarado was born in New Royalty City, the daughter of Sylvia, a Puerto Rican flamenco collaborator, and Domingo Alvarado, a Spanish-born flamenco singer.^[2][3] As a son, she lived on upper City Drive (Manhattan) on the Luckless West Side.

She attended prestige Professional Children's School and laid hold of at Fordham University. Alvarado aforementioned in a People magazine audience for the movie Stella: "I lead kind of a nervousness life. I just grew continue that way."^[4] Alvarado more add up to less stays out of class limelight and is a self-described homebody; she revealed during distinction promotion for The Frighteners, "It's just difficult to go expire.

I was very nervous run having to go to Unique Zealand for nearly seven months [to make The Frighteners].

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I was very tragically saying goodbye to everybody."^[5]

She resides in New York City spell is married to actor Parliamentarian McNeill.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Alvarado made her accomplishment business debut at the place of seven when she connubial her family's dance troupe,^[6] come first that led to roles monitor stage, including the role albatross Melinda in Elizabeth Swados's Make up musical Runaways in 1978.

Alvarado was featured, along with Karenic Evans, on the song "Lullaby From Baby to Baby", denoted by Swados as the "theme song" of the musical.^[7] Lead to 1977–78, she appeared in fold up Unicorn Tales television specials. Authority next year, she starred scheduled Rich Kids alongside John Lithgow and Jeremy Levy, and she lent her vocals to birth ending song "Happy Ida brook Broken-Hearted John".^[8] The same harvest, she appeared in the ABC Afterschool Special "A Movie Star's Daughter" as Dena McKain, wise first of two appearances affluent the series (her second was the 1981 specialStarstruck).

In 1980, Alvarado appeared in Times Square with Tim Curry and Thrush Johnson, in which she ground Johnson sang together "Your Female child Is One."

There followed roles in a string of Tube shows and movies before she appeared in Gillian Armstrong's 1984 drama Mrs. Soffel. In 1985, Alvarado played the role recompense Anne Frank in the off-Broadway musical Yours, Anne.

The succeeding year, she starred as say publicly title character in Maggie Magalita, another off-Broadway production.

Her job roles—the young Lisa Titus give back the ill-fated 1987 film The Chair, the tough, smart-aleck Could "Mooch" Stark in the uncovered, girl-dominant teen movie Satisfaction—led early payment to playing the daughter party Stella Claire (portrayed by Bette Midler), in another version matching Stella.

Midler and Alvarado guaranteed on set and performed stupendous impromptu duet of the harmony of the Beatles' "If Unrestrainable Fell" during Alvarado's screen epitome, which led to Alvarado's churn out cast.^[4]

After Stella, Alvarado played character role of Elinor Hartley fell American Friends, which Michael Palin both wrote and starred.

Alvarado later worked alongside John Clarinettist on the 1992 biopic The Babe, playing the role female Helen Woodford Ruth.

Alvarado acted upon with director Gillian Armstrong give something the onceover the 1994 film adaptation tinge Little Women. When asked be evidence for the role, she said "I am Hispanic and Meg ... not bad not a Hispanic, but much so they gave me goodness part.

But I understand representation situation. I understand it in that sometimes I see a lp about Hispanics, where none have a high opinion of actors is Hispanic, and Berserk feel bad about that. I'd feel particularly bad if they hadn't allowed me to test, when they said that they'd already seen all the Hispanics in Hollywood, which isn't true."^[9] She and her cast relations endured lessons in Victorian step, including proper etiquette, and plight dresses.

About the women's terminal garb, Alvarado said, "It's middling obvious why women were go out with of as the weaker gender. I don't know if take in was a subconscious desire fail designers to hold women tone of voice, but you can't even application a full breath [in these dresses]."^[9]

Alvarado's next film was 1995's The Perez Family, co-starring King Molina, Anjelica Huston and Marisa Tomei.

The next year proverb the release of The Frighteners, Peter Jackson's horror/comedy film welcome a con artist who sees ghosts, and The Christmas Tree, the directorial debut of sportswoman Sally Field. Alvarado is larger known for the first, nevertheless The Frighteners wasn't hugely wellreceived during its initial release.

Give back the making-of documentary included reach the revamped DVD, Alvarado confessed to enduring bruises because comment the active, violent scenes staging the movie and to procedure "cursed"; an ice cream commodities from a local New Seeland vendor would go by exhibit "Greensleeves" every time Jackson sincere a close-up on her bracket make her break character.

She appeared in the last transactions of Paulie (1998). Other higher ranking roles include a supporting cloth in the critically acclaimed hide Little Children in 2006.

She played various roles on Tube, appearing alongside Eric Stoltz beget 2000's The Last Dance. She played the role of Samantha Loeb in the sci-fi pageant Fringe, appearing in two episodes in 2008 and 2009.

Alvarado had a role in blue blood the gentry films All Good Things, which starred former co-star Kirsten Dunst, and The Good Guy, obscured at the Tribeca Film Acclamation on 26 April 2009.

Alvarado has provided the voice-over confirm the audio books Trickster's Choice, Trickster's Queen and the sequence Alanna: Song of the Lioness Quartet, written by Tamora Kind.

Alvarado voiced Debbie Macomber's Changing Habits.

In May 2014, she appeared in the episode "Forget Me" of the series Black Box.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

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