Alana de la Garza

Alana de la Garza is one of those actors who quietly became a cornerstone of prestige network television without ever getting the full spotlight she deserved. She showed up on Law & Order as Assistant D.A. Connie Rubirosa and immediately felt like she belonged there — sharp, compelling, holding her own in a franchise that had chewed through cast members for decades. Then she pivoted to CSI: Miami, then Forever, demonstrating a real range across procedural genres that few TV actors bother to develop. Born in Columbus, Ohio, raised in El Paso and schooled at the University of Texas at Austin — there's a grounded practicality to her career that I genuinely respect. No tabloid drama, no vanity projects, just consistently good work in shows people actually watched. That's a harder thing to pull off than it looks.

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Name (English)

Alana de la Garza

Name (Japanese)

アラナ・デ・ラ・ガーザ

Reading

あらな・で・ら・がーざ

Born

June 18, 1976 (age 50)

Origin

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dragon

High school

Coronado High School

University

University of Texas at El Paso

• Official sitehttp://www.alanadelagarza.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/Alana_DeLaGarza
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alana%20de%20la%20Garza
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q265285

Tags

• Ohio
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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