Jacqueline Obradors
Jacqueline Obradors is an actor, born 1966.
Jacqueline Obradors (born 1966) grew up in the San Fernando Valley, the daughter of Argentine immigrants, and was working as a supermarket cashier in Canoga Park before acting paid for anything. Her early credits are exactly what a working Los Angeles actress got in the nineties: Problem Child 3, then a jump to studio comedy with Angelica in Six Days Seven Nights and Elaine Fowler in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
Two jobs gave her a lasting career. The first was NYPD Blue, where she played Detective Rita Ortiz from 2001 to 2005, a run long enough to make her face familiar to a network audience. The second was a voice booth: Audrey Rocio Ramirez in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the teenage engineer with the deadpan and the better lines, a part she reprised in Atlantis: Milo's Return. That is almost certainly the most heard performance she has given.
Since then she has worked steadily in the middle of the call sheet, which is a respectable place to be: Tortilla Soup, A Man Apart, Unstoppable, Christina Vega in Bosch, Alexa Lee in Lucifer, Pia in Palm Springs, La Dama in the animated Catwoman: Hunted. It is a career built on being credible inside a police station and funny when asked.
Movies (15)
- Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado (2025)
- Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
- Palm Springs (2020)
- A Man Apart (2003)
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
- Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
- Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)
- Crossing Over (2009)
- Problem Child 3 (1995)
- Catwoman: Hunted (2022)
- Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses (2014)
- Unstoppable (2004)
- Red Sun Rising (1994)
- Tortilla Soup (2001)
- Soldier Boyz (1995)
TV (7)
Where to start with Jacqueline Obradors
Atlantis: The Lost Empire first, because it is the performance most people have already heard without knowing whose it is, and because Audrey gets the sharpest timing in a film full of good voice work. Atlantis: Milo's Return follows it and is a direct-to-video afterthought, so treat that one as optional.
NYPD Blue is the substantial screen work: four years inside a procedural that took its detectives seriously, and the best place to see what she can do with a scene. Six Days Seven Nights and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo are the studio comedies of the era and have aged very differently. Tortilla Soup is the one to seek out if you want her in something warm, and Palm Springs is a small part in a genuinely good film.