User:Bernadette Perez

''Bernadette Blanton Perez is a Mexican Native American, LGBT, Los Angeles-based Actress originally from East Chicago. She began as a stage Actress at the age of twelve and later transitioned to film and television.

Family and Early Life
Perez was born in East Chicago, Indiana to Janie Sue Blanton,a Red Cross Volunteer and Girl Scout Leader, and Juan Jose Soto Perez, a career Military Combat Engineer. She is of Mexican Native American, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Irish descent. Her father is a Catholic, her mother Jewish and she was raised Catholic. She is the Great Niece of Virginia Soto Rodriguez, the First Female Federal Representative of Guanajuato, Mexico from 1961-1964. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Soto_Rodr%C3%ADguez

Perez lived in Hammond, Indiana where she attended Columbia Elementary and St. John Bosco School. At age 10, she moved to Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana where she attended Lakeside Elementary, Stoneybrook Middle School, Belzer Middle School, and Lawrence Central High School.

Perez always wanted to be an Actress. She also played the Alto Saxophone in her school marching band, was a member of the competitive show choir Central Sound, and studied dance while working professional theater. After graduating from Lawrence Central High School, she attended Butler University. She later transferred to Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis eventually leaving to pursue a career in theater in New York. Hoping to work more in film and television, Perez moved to Los Angeles where she quickly landed her first film and began attending conservatory.