Biography

From her theatrical debut at the La Jolla Playhouse, to her national TV debut on Lifetime Television, Lina Acosta has courageously shown the acting world she is funny and witty in a way few beautiful women can be. Her range of characters on stage include a Cuban prostitute, a Puerto Rican cha cha queen and Miss East L.A. in Rick Najera's Latinologues at the San Diego Rep Theater, a Mexican Geisha in Josefina Lopez' Confessions of Women from Boyle Heights at Casa 0101, and an optimistic Hooters waitress in Gloria Calderon's In her Shoes at the Hudson Avenue Theater. She played various roles in the sketch comedy show Play Things, where the LA Times proclaimed her "[a] blissful comic actor". Lina demonstrated her dramatic talent playing the Wife in Blood Wedding at the La Jolla Playhouse and a pregnant junkie on Lifetime Television's Strong Medicine. Other TV roles include Telemundo's Angeles, Reyes y Rey and numerous commercials. She is Norma in HBO Film's, Real Women Have Curves, winner of the Sundance Audience Award. Her natural ability as a leader has led Lina to write, perform and produce sketch comedy with The Busy Beavers and PMS (Pinche Mentirosa Sisters). Lina dreams of one day earning an Emmy Award and proving those that have said she has the "IT Factor" right!
- IMDb mini biography by: L. Sandaal