Bertila Damas is a Cuban-born American actress.

Damas began her career in Miami, where she worked in Spanish-language theater while in college. She was later accepted at theCircle in the Square Theater School in New York City. There, she met Terry Hayden, who got her interested inThe Actors Studio, where she resided untilLee Strasberg's death. Afterward, she studied withStella Adler.^[1]

Damas portrayed Clemencia inElectricidad at theMark Taper Forum;^[2][3] and Marta inEduardo Machado'sFabiola atTheatre for the New City in NYC. She is aGarland Awards recipient.^{[citation needed]}

Damas's films includeNothing but Trouble,Mi Vida Loca, andFires Within.^[4] Her TV credits includeThe John Larroquette Show,King of the Hill,NYPD Blue,Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,Star Trek: Voyager, andGrimm.^[5]

On international Spanish television, Damas is known for her role as the villainous Marta onAngelica, mi vida for Telemundo. She has been seen and heard in dozens of commercials and voiceovers in both Spanish and English.

Damas has served on theSAG board of directors (2010–2012) and on theSAG-AFTRA board (2012–2015). Since 2010, she has been the SAG–AFTRA national chair of the Ethnic Employment Opportunities Committee.^[5]

Damas had a recurring role as Camila Santiago onNBC sitcomBrooklyn Nine-Nine.

• Bertila Damas atIMDb 
• Bertila Damas at theInternet Broadway Database

This article about an American actor is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Living people
• American television actresses
• American film actresses
• 21st-century American women
• American actor stubs

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• All articles with unsourced statements
• Articles with unsourced statements from May 2024
• IBDB name template using Wikidata
• Year of birth missing (living people)
• All stub articles