Tia Texada

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Tia Texada born Tia Nicole Tucker on December 14 1971 is an American actress and singer She is probably best known for portraying the role of Sgt Maritza Cruz from the American television show Third Watch and for her role as Shay on ABC Familys Huge Texada was born in Louisiana to a reflexologist mother and an insurance agent father She has been acting since she was young Texadas most recent appearance was as a guest star in an episode of Chuck Chuck Versus the Coup dEtat Before that she was a guest star in Saving Grace and in two episodes of The Unit and appeared in Criminal Minds Season 3 Episode 17 as Detective Tina Lopez2 She played Sgt Maritza Cruz in the NBC Drama Third Watch She also has appeared in movies such as Paulie 1998 Nurse Betty 2000 Glitter 2001 Phone Booth 2003 Spartan 2004 and Everybody Hates Chris 2008 as Miss Rivera She also has a singing career and her songs have been featured on shows such as Dawsons Creek She also played at the Lilith Fair tour in 1998 She has lent her voice to TVs Static Shock as well as many television commercials She has also done layouts for magazines and has been featured in FHM Description above from the Wikipedia article Tia Texada licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia