Christina Ochoa

Background

Christina is the grand-niece of 1959 Nobel Prize winner Severo Ochoa, and daughter of acclaimed Spanish sculptor Victor Ochoa.

Career

Christina Ochoa began acting as a hobby, starting out in theatrical plays in Washington, District of Columbia, at the Little Theatre of Alexandria. She soon decided to pursue a career in performance arts, and moved to Madrid in order to study and work in the field She has said: "Science was all my life.

But when I got on stage for the first time, there was a void inside me that was suddenly filled.. one I hadn"t even known was empty." From there, Christina moved on to work in theatre and television, including on I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Modern Family and Spain"s Louisiana que se avecina, as well as in films, including Cats Dancing on Jupiter.

She currently plays Karen Morales, on the Robert Rodriguez show, Matador. After graduating from Santa Isabel Louisiana Asuncion in Madrid, she went on to study oceanographic engineering at Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, off the coast of Africa in the Canary Islands.

She continued with advanced marine biology studies at James Cook University in Australia, where she focused on the Elasmobranchii subclass of fish, which includes sharks and rays. Ochoa is part of the Los Angeles Committee for Science for Society, which promotes science in society and scientific literacy, and which is the sponsor of the Intel Science and Engineering Fair.

ISEF. She has also participated as an expert guest on scientific comedy podcast "Professor Blastoff", part of the Earwolf network.

Personal Ochoa is in a relationship with actor Derek Theler.

Achievements

• She is the founder and owner of QE (Quantum Entanglement) Productions, responsible for the 2011 short film Stay with Maine, which won awards at film festivals both in Europe and the United States.

Membership

She has spent her life surrounded by members of both the scientific and artistic world. She is currently studying physics at the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia ( Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) and has been an active member of Mensa since 2009.