Maria Alejandra Delfino ( ), known professionally as Majandra Delfino, is a Venezuelan-American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on Roswell, and as Andi on the CBS sitcom Friends with Better Lives.
Early life Delfino was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Her father, Enrique Delfino, is Italian Venezuelan, and her mother, Mary Hellmund, is Cuban.Delfino, Majandra (Jul 28, 2011). "Twitter post". Twitter. Retrieved April 10, 2017. "Mother is Cuban, father is Italian Venezuelan. Watch out! ;)" As a child, she lived in Caracas and Miami, Florida, before moving to Los Angeles as a teenager.
Career Acting Delfino was cast in MGM's Zeus & Roxanne before winning the role of Tina Dimeo in NBC's The Tony Danza Show, where she played Danza's teenage daughter. After playing Natalie Sanford in the independent film The Secret Life of Girls, Delfino was cast as Maria DeLuca on Roswell. On hiatus, she performed in the small role of Vanessa in Traffic. She also acted in Reeseville, Celeste in the City, R.S.V.P. and State's Evidence.
Delfino starred in several episodes of the NBC show Quarterlife, also shown on MySpaceTV, which started airing November 11, 2007. In 2011, she starred with Raven-Symoné in the show State of Georgia on ABC Family until its cancellation.
Delfino performed in ABC's pilot The Family Trap starring Mandy Moore and Stockard Channing. She was eight months pregnant with her first child during the shooting, so director Shawn Levy shot around the pregnancy for the entire project. One month after giving birth, Delfino was cast as Dwight Schrute's sister, Fannie Schrute, on NBC's The Office attempted spin-off, The Farm. NBC did not greenlight the series.
Delfino starred in CBS's Friends with Better Lives, where writers included her pregnancy in the storyline.
Music Delfino sang in several Roswell episodes, such as "Viva Las Vegas", "Cry Your Name" and "Behind the Music". In the summer of 2000, she released three songs onto the internet, "Siren", "Bruises" and "Tattoo", written and produced in association with "Sci-Fi Lullaby." On October 31, 2001, she released the EP The Sicks on her own label, Dripfeed, without radio or television airplay.
Her second album, Tarte, was released on April 23, 2007 by her own record company, Red Velvet Cake Records. In February 2011, she announced via Twitter that she was working on her third studio album, scheduled for a late 2018 release.Majandra Delfino - Third Album (Late 2011) at popjustice.com
Personal life On March 18, 2011, Delfino married actor David Walton in Miami. They have two children, a daughter born in 2012, and a son born in 2013.
Discography The Sicks (EP) (2001) Dripfeed Le Prince Bleu D'Arthelius (2003) (CD single duet with RoBERT) Tarte (2007) RVC Records
Film and television credits Year Title RoleNotes 1997 Zeus and Roxanne Judith Dunhill 1997–1998 The Tony Danza Show Tina DiMeo 14 episodes 1999 The Secret Life of Girls Natalie Sanford Katie Joplin Sara Shotz 7 episodes 1999–2002 Roswell Maria DeLuca Main role; 60 episodes 2000 Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th Martina Martinez Direct-to-video Traffic Vanessa 2001 The Learning Curve Ashley 2002 R.S.V.P. Callie 2003 Reeseville Irish Buchanan 2004 Boston Public Jill Sharp Episode "Chapter Seventy-Seven" Celeste in the City Celeste Blodgett TV movie 2005 Don't Come Knocking 1st Girl 2006 Three Moons Over Milford Grace Wochuck Episode "Unaired Pilot" Ultra Suzette TV movie Help Me Help You Pissed-Off Girl / Lucy Episodes "Pilot" and "The Mattress" State's Evidence Trudi 2008 Heidi 4 Paws Miss Rottenmeier Quarterlife Vanessa 5 episodes 2009 "Bent" Megan Short film Pulling Louise TV movie Web of Lies Abby Turner TV movie 2010 Life as We Know It Jenna 2011 Men of a Certain Age Stella Episodes "The Pickup" and "A League of Their Owen" State of Georgia Josephina "Jo" Pye Main role; 12 episodes 2012 Family Trap Sarah TV movie 2013 The Office Fannie Schrute Episode "The Farm" 2014 Friends with Better Lives Andi Lutz Main role 2017 Life in Pieces MarshaEpisode "Ear Scorn Registry Manuscript" 2017 Band Aid Maria 2017 BoJack Horseman Henrietta Episode "Time's Arrow" 2025 Kill Me Again Ana TV movie
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