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Tia Texada Profile |
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Birth Date: December 14, 1971
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Birth Place: Louisiana, USA
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Birth Name: Tia Nicole Tucker
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Height: 5'5"
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Biography |
Tia Texada is an American actress and singer. She is
probably best known for portraying the role of Sgt. Maritza
Cruz from the American television show Third Watch.
Texada was born to a reflexologist mother and an insurance
agent father. She has been acting since she was young.
Texada's most recent appearance was as a guest star in an
episode of CSI Miami. Before that, she was a guest star in
two episodes of The Unit. She played Sgt. Maritza Cruz in
the NBC Drama Third Watch. She also has appeared in movies
such as Paulie (1998) , Nurse Betty (2000), Glitter (2001),
Phone Booth (2003) and Spartan (2004). She also has a
singing career, and her songs have been featured on shows
such as Dawson's Creek. She has lent her voice to TV's
Static Shock as well as many television commercials. She has
also done layouts for magazines. |
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Other
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Is a musician/recording artist. Her song "Driving You Crazy"
was featured in an episode of "Dawson's Creek" (1998), and
she has performed as a soloist in the California leg of the
Lilith Fair tour in 1995. Tia is also a Latin dance soloist.
Her brother is a jewelry designer
She sang the role of Lupe 'the parrot' in the movie Paulie
Her mother was a beauty queen and her father does magic
tricks
Her father, Val, is an insurance agent. He is an avid
amateur golfer. In the 1970s he was a baseball coach at
Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana. Her mother,
Vickie, is a reflexologist. |
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since March 9, 2009