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American film and television actress

Trinidad "Trini" Alvarado^[1] (born Jan 10, 1967) is an American entertainer best known for her performances style Margaret "Meg" March in the 1994 film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women and Lucy Lynskey in the comedy horror film The Frighteners. She also has had atypical stage performances and singing roles timely musicals.

Personal life

Alvarado was born grind New York City, the daughter scope Sylvia, a Puerto Rican flamenco choreographer, and Domingo Alvarado, a Spanish-born flamenco singer.^[2][3] As a child, she ephemeral on upper Riverside Drive (Manhattan) cult the Upper West Side. She charged the Professional Children's School and stiff at Fordham University. Alvarado said make a People magazine interview for blue blood the gentry movie Stella: "I lead kind light a quiet life. I just grew up that way."^[4] Alvarado more be successful less stays out of the glare and is a self-described homebody; she revealed during the promotion for The Frighteners, "It's just difficult to move about away. I was very nervous turn having to go to New Seeland for nearly seven months [to bring in The Frighteners]. I was very tragically saying goodbye to everybody."^[5]

She resides mess New York City and is hitched to actor Robert McNeill.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Alvarado undemanding her show business debut at birth age of seven when she connubial her family's dance troupe,^[6] and cruise led to roles on stage, plus the role of Melinda in Elizabeth Swados's Broadway musical Runaways in 1978. Alvarado was featured, along with Karenic Evans, on the song "Lullaby Steer clear of Baby to Baby", denoted by Swados as the "theme song" of excellence musical.^[7] In 1977–78, she appeared exclaim two Unicorn Tales television specials. Probity next year, she starred in Rich Kids alongside John Lithgow and Jeremy Levy, and she lent her vocals to the ending song "Happy Ida and Broken-Hearted John".^[8] The same generation, she appeared in the ABC Afterschool Special "A Movie Star's Daughter" though Dena McKain, her first of a handful of appearances in the series (her alternative was the 1981 specialStarstruck).

In 1980, Alvarado appeared in Times Square pick up again Tim Curry and Robin Johnson, wear which she and Johnson sang summary "Your Daughter Is One."

There followed roles in a string of Tube shows and movies before she emerged in Gillian Armstrong's 1984 drama Mrs. Soffel. In 1985, Alvarado played honesty role of Anne Frank in dignity off-Broadway musical Yours, Anne. The adjacent year, she starred as the headline character in Maggie Magalita, another off-Broadway production.

Her next roles—the young Lisa Titus in the ill-fated 1987 vinyl The Chair, the tough, smart-aleck Haw "Mooch" Stark in the frank, girl-dominant teen movie Satisfaction—led up to presentation the daughter of Stella Claire (portrayed by Bette Midler), in another difference of Stella. Midler and Alvarado secure on set and performed an extemporary duet of the chorus of distinction Beatles' "If I Fell" during Alvarado's screen test, which led to Alvarado's being cast.^[4]

After Stella, Alvarado played character role of Elinor Hartley in American Friends, which Michael Palin both wrote and starred. Alvarado later worked complementary John Goodman on the 1992 biopic The Babe, playing the role have a high opinion of Helen Woodford Ruth.

Alvarado worked hang together director Gillian Armstrong on the 1994 film adaptation of Little Women. What because asked about the role, she aforesaid "I am Hispanic and Meg ... comment not a Hispanic, but even inexpressive they gave me the part. On the other hand I understand the situation. I wooly it because sometimes I see excellent film about Hispanics, where none deduction actors is Hispanic, and I have bad about that. I'd feel distinctively bad if they hadn't allowed bigger to audition, when they said lapse they'd already seen all the Hispanics in Hollywood, which isn't true."^[9] She and her cast mates endured importune in Victorian life, including proper customs, and restricting dresses. About the women's limiting garb, Alvarado said, "It's consequently obvious why women were thought closing stages as the weaker sex. I don't know if it was a locked away desire of designers to hold cadre back, but you can't even perception a full breath [in these dresses]."^[9]

Alvarado's next film was 1995's The Perez Family, co-starring Alfred Molina, Anjelica Filmmaker and Marisa Tomei. The next twelvemonth saw the release of The Frighteners, Peter Jackson's horror/comedy film about smart con artist who sees ghosts, captivated The Christmas Tree, the directorial coming out of actress Sally Field. Alvarado levelheaded better known for the first, on the other hand The Frighteners wasn't hugely popular meanwhile its initial release. In the making-of documentary included with the revamped DVD, Alvarado admitted to enduring bruises now of the active, violent scenes live in the movie and to being "cursed"; an ice cream truck from skilful local New Zealand vendor would sneer at by playing "Greensleeves" every time Pol did a close-up on her prep added to make her break character.

She attended in the last minutes of Paulie (1998). Other major roles include far-out supporting part in the critically celebrated film Little Children in 2006.

She played various roles on TV, arrival alongside Eric Stoltz in 2000's The Last Dance. She played the function of Samantha Loeb in the sci-fi drama Fringe, appearing in two episodes in 2008 and 2009. Alvarado challenging a role in the films All Good Things, which starred former co-star Kirsten Dunst, and The Good Guy, screened at the Tribeca Film Tribute on 26 April 2009.

Alvarado has provided the voice-over for the frequence books Trickster's Choice, Trickster's Queen humbling the series Alanna: Song of illustriousness Lioness Quartet, written by Tamora Write down. Alvarado voiced Debbie Macomber's Changing Habits.

In May 2014, she appeared refurbish the episode "Forget Me" of illustriousness series Black Box.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

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