Background
Garcia was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Mexican mother from Pachuca and a Puerto Rican father from San Juan.
Garcia was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Mexican mother from Pachuca and a Puerto Rican father from San Juan.
Northwestern University.
She had a role in the Disney Channel Original Movie Cadet Kelly (2002), and co-starred, as Lydia, alongside Anthony Anderson in The World Bank sitcom All About the Andersons. Garcia starred alongside Jessica Simpson in the comedy-drama Major Movie Star (2008). She also played a brief part in the movie Doctorate-War (2007) and narrated the Adam Sandler film Spanglish (2004).
From 2009 to 2010, she was in the cast of the Peter Berg National Broadcasting Company medical drama Trauma, as the EMT helicopter pilot Marisa Benez.
Garcia spent three years on Showtime"s Dexter as Jamie Batista, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in Dramatic Series. She played Doctor Jae Kim in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer"s reboot film, RoboCop (2014).