Angela Jones
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Angela Jones is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 actress. She was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Greensburg is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States, and a part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The city is named after Nathanael Greene, a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War...

 then raised in Jeannette, Pennsylvania
Jeannette, Pennsylvania
Jeannette is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 10,788 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Jeannette is located at ....

 where she graduated in 1986. Both towns are located approximately 25 miles southeast of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

. She is a graduate of Point Park College in Pittsburgh.

Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

 discovered her in the short film Curdled
Curdled (film)
Curdled is 1996 black comedy written and directed by Reb Braddock. The film stars Angela Jones as a Colombian immigrant who takes a crime scene cleanup job, and discovers evidence about a local serial killer dubbed the "Blue Blood Killer" for his targeting of socialites...

(1991), directed by Reb Braddock. Tarantino was impressed with her performance and cast her in both Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (film)
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...

and a 1996 remake of Curdled.

In Saul Hudson's 2007 biography "Slash", it was mentioned that while recording the soundtrack for the film "Curdled", he had a huge crush on her and the two had a short-lived relationship.

She appeared in Quentin Tarantino's popular film Pulp Fiction as Esmarelda Villalobos, the cab driver who picked up Butch (Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis , better known as Bruce Willis, is an American actor, producer, and musician. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles...

) the prizefighter
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

; she'd heard on the radio that he had killed his opponent in a boxing match earlier that night, and wanted to know how it felt to kill a man.

Select Filmography

  • House at the End of the Drive (2006) .... Felicia
  • Family Secrets (2001/I)
  • Fixations (1999) .... Julia
  • Back to Even (1998) .... Kim
  • Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
    Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
    Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror is a 1998 motion picture and the fifth installment of the Children of the Corn series. It is also the third Children of the Corn movie released by Dimension Films and Miramax Films...

    (1998) (V) .... Charlotte
  • Pariah
    Pariah (1998 film)
    Pariah is a 1998 dramatic film written and directed by Randolph Kret and starring Damon Jones, Dave Oren Ward and Angela Jones.-Plot:A woman commits suicide after being sexually assaulted by neo-Nazi skinheads...

    (1998) .... Angela
  • Morella
    Morella
    "Morella" is a short story in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe.-Plot summary:An unnamed narrator marries Morella, a woman with great scholarly knowledge who delves into studies of the German philosophers Fichte and Schelling, dealing with the...

    (1997) .... Dr.Patricia Morella/Sarah Lynden
  • Curdled (1996) .... Gabriela
  • Underworld (1996) .... Janette
  • Curdled
    Curdled (film)
    Curdled is 1996 black comedy written and directed by Reb Braddock. The film stars Angela Jones as a Colombian immigrant who takes a crime scene cleanup job, and discovers evidence about a local serial killer dubbed the "Blue Blood Killer" for his targeting of socialites...

    (1996) .... Gabriela Ponce
  • Pulp Fiction
    Pulp Fiction (film)
    Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...

    (1994) .... Esmarelda Villalobos
  • Strapped
    Strapped
    Strapped is a 1993 television crime-thriller/drama, produced by HBO Films for HBO. It starred, William James Stiggers Jr., Chi Ali and was the debut film of Bokeem Woodbine and rapper Fredro Starr...

    (1993) (TV) .... Woman At Clinic
  • Hidden Fears (1993) .... Brunette in Van

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