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- Height5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
- Caitlin Sanchez is a former actress, known for voicing the preschool character kids know and love, "Dora the Explorer". She was nominated for two NAACP Image Awards for "Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Program" and two Imagen Awards for "Best Television Actress". One of her first roles as a child actress was a guest-star appearance on "Law & Order: SVU" playing Catholic school-girl Lupe Rojas opposite Jerry Lewis and Christopher Meloni.
Among her other guest-starring roles include appearing on "Lipstick Jungle", playing uptight bookworm Celia Vega, the daughter of soap-star Carlos Ponce's character. Caitlin has also appeared in film, playing the comically-depressive Monica in "Phoebe in Wonderland" alongside Elle Fanning and Patricia Clarkson.
She is also a jazz pianist, two-time winner of the Tito Puente Scholarship Award as well as the Yamaha Corporation's Young Composer's Award, performing notably at NJPAC, Bennett Studios and the Meadowlands Arena.
Caitlin was born and raised in Bergen County, New Jersey. She is a third-generation Cuban-American.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- [Thelonious Monk] has this really unique style. He kind of hits the piano really hard. And I love his offbeats. Sometimes he goes on-beat; sometimes he goes off. He's full of surprises.
- The main goal when I record an episode is to make sure that I'm really communicating with the kids even though I am just speaking through a microphone. [...] That's why kids love Dora, because she talks to them directly and she makes them feel like she's really talking to them and that is special!
- [Me and Dora] are different because Dora is very determined and very confident in everything that she does... she never gives up! Me on the other hand, I'm kind of lazy... I give up pretty easily!
- I love John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk, and great vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. [Monk] has this really unique style. He kind of hits the piano really hard. And I love his offbeats. Sometimes he goes on-beat; sometimes he goes off. He's full of surprises.
- I don't think I could swing from vines and save kingdoms and princesses [like Dora]... I don't think I could really do that. But that's why it's really cool that I get to play Dora. I get to go into the [vocal] booth and pretend to be this really awesome 7 year old girl who goes on all of these crazy adventures with monkeys and foxes; but in real life, I'm just normal Caitlin!
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