National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2015 Honors Ivonne Coll
Hollywood, CA — The National Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP) will honor award-winning actress Ivonne Coll with their Lifetime Achievement Award in the upcoming celebration along Fifth Avenue in New York City. This year’s theme is for The National Puerto Rican Day Parade, which will take place on Sunday, June 14, 2015 is “One Community, Many Voices.”
People’s Choice Award winner and Golden Globe nominee Ivonne Coll is a theater, television, and film actress from Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Her film debut as “Redheaded Yolanda” in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather II helped her discover her passion for acting, becoming one of the first Latin actresses to cross over and work consistently in Hollywood.
Coll has an impressive list of credits on Broadway including the Tony Award nominated Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare on Broadway: Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It, and Goodbye Fidel.
Her award-winning variety show in Puerto Rico, Una Chica Llamada Ivonne Coll (A GirlCalled Ivonne Coll) (1972-74) provided the perfect opportunity to showcase her many talents which included singing, dancing and acting. She represented Puerto Rico in the Miss Universe Pageant in 1967.
Awards received include: The People’s Choice Award, (Jane The Virgin) TCA’s Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming (Switched at Birth), Eternity Award Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival, ACE Award NY Hispanic Media (Orinoco), Puerto Rico International Short Film Festival Best Actress (De Pura Cepa), Craig Noel Award forOutstanding Performance San Diego Critics Circle (Adoration of the Old Woman), Agueybana de Oro Best Supporting Actress (Coralito).
Award nominations include: Golden Globe (Jane The Virgin), Jefferson Award as Best Supporting Actress (Electricidad) Actor’s Equity Association and Best Actress (Mother Courage) by the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle.
Coll’s film work included Waking the Dead, (Polygram), Lean on Me (WB) Instinct (Touchstone Pictures), Into Deep (Miramax), The Pest (Tristar), A Rainy Day (Universal) and Hemingway & Gelhorn for HBO.
Coll currently plays Jane’s grandmother in the CW’s Jane The Virgin. Among her many television credits are Switched at Birth (ABC Family) Teen Wolf (MTV) Glee (Fox) East Los High (Hulu), Nip Tuck (FX), An American Family (PBS) and Six Feet Under (HBO).
Along with Ms. Coll, other honorees include award-winning actress Rita Moreno, Victor Manuelle and Lin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the upcoming Broadway musical Hamilton, who is being honored for his contributions to American theater.
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