Draft:Carmen Zilles

Carmen Zilles is an American actor. She is best known for her role as Beatriz in the drama Bel Canto (2018), directed by Paul Weitz and based on the novel by Ann Patchett. She also appeared in Flemish director Ivo van Hove's adaptation of Scenes from a Marriage at New York Theatre Workshop in 2014.

Early life and education
Zilles was born in the Jamaica Plain area of Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from the Boston Latin School. She later graduated from the Yale School of Drama with a degree in acting.

Career
Zilles has appeared in over twenty Off-Broadway plays; she played Jackie in Atlantic Theater Company's production of Chimichangas and Zoloft in 2012, Vanessa in Jose Rivera's play Adoration of the Old Woman at INTAR, Jess in Signature Theater Company's Small Mouth Sounds (directed by Rachel Chavkin). She played Cecilia in Maria Irene Fornes's play Fefu and her Friends at Theatre for a New Audience (directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz) in 2019 and as Aran in Brian Watkins' (creator of Amazon's Outer Range) play Epiphany at Lincoln Center Theater. She starred as Marlene in Caryl Churchhill's Top Girls, directed by Liesl Tommy at the Huntington Theatre in Boston in 2018. She played Katrina in Ivo van Hove's adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at New York Theatre Workshop in 2014.

She appeared opposite Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe in the 2018 drama Bel Canto, based on the novel by Ann Patchett. She played a recurring role on Law and Order: Organized Crime as the wife of Detective 2nd Grade Bobby Reyes (played by Rick Gonzalez). She appeared with Keke Palmer and rapper DMX in the 2019 film Pimp.

Personal life
Zilles resides in New York City. She is part of a writers' collective called VERONICA and has written three plays, one loosely based on Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba.

External link

 * https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7997180/