- Born
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- A Chicago native of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, she made her professional stage debut at the age of seven in Paul Mejia's "Cinderella" at The Auditorium Theatre. By the age of 12, she was dancing 20 shows a month as Clara in "The Nutcracker". She joined the Young People's Company, whose alumni include John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Lili Taylor, and Aidan Quinn.
Aimee graduated from Northwestern University with a triple major in economics, journalism, and French. While attending Northwestern University, she was put under a two-year contract with Paramount Television after Norman Lear hand-picked her to headline his pilot-in-development, The Chavez Family, and also played the lead role of Diana Morales in "A Chorus Line" for Broadway choreographer Mitzi Hamilton.
After Northwestern, she developed a television career in Los Angeles with Greetings from Tucson (2002), and had continued success as Andy Garcia's daughter and George Lopez's niece Veronica Palmero on George Lopez (2002). She is was at one point the only Latina in her generation to be on syndicated television.
In 2007, she was nominated for an ALMA and Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series.
Aimee also starred in Peter Berg's new high-octane medical drama Trauma (2009) on NBC.
- IMDb mini biography by: info@aimee-garcia.com
- ParentsEloisa Garcia
- She tutors junior/high school students in Spanish.
- Is half-Mexican and half-Puerto Rican.
- She was supposed to participate on behalf of Mexico in Winter Olympics 2014 in the Skiing event. She trained herself for it, but ended up not participating.
- She has dual citizenship of USA and Mexico.
- Was a member of the Grafitti Dancers ensemble at Northwestern University.
- Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.
- When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.
- It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-length feature.
- I have been a fan of Dexter (2006) since the pilot. Once I got the audition I just squealed, and you would have thought I just won $45 million.
- I'm dating a very high-maintenance career.
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