Camillia Sanes is an American

United States

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 actor and film producer. In television, she has played recurring roles on shows such as The Shield

The Shield

The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...

 and Saving Grace

Saving Grace (TV series)

Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series which premiered on TNT on July 23, 2007 and ran until June 21, 2010. The show stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series, as well as Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Laura San Giacomo, Bailey Chase, Bokeem Woodbine,...

.

Career

Sanes worked at theatres such as The Roundabout Theatre with Bill Irwin, originating the role of Celestina in “Cloud Tectonics” at Playwright’s Horizon and became a member of the Blue Light Theatre Co. Additionally, she worked the regional circuit in such theatres as La Jolla Playhouse

La Jolla Playhouse

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, South Coast Repertory

South Coast Repertory

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, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. She is the annual guest instructor at the Scuola di Teatro in Bologna, Italy.

Sanes appeared in the recurring role of Aurora Aceveda in the FX drama The Shield

The Shield

The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...

. Other television roles include Saving Grace

Saving Grace (TV series)

Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series which premiered on TNT on July 23, 2007 and ran until June 21, 2010. The show stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series, as well as Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Laura San Giacomo, Bailey Chase, Bokeem Woodbine,...

, Law & Order

Law & Order

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, and Cold Case. She appeared in War of the Worlds and Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit

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.

Sanes' short film The Winged Man (2008) was featured in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner and recently became an official selection of the 2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival. She is currently producing Celestina, a film written by screenwriter José Rivera

José Rivera (playwright)

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, with executive producer Walter Salles and producer Julio Caro.

Films (actor)

• Low (1995) - Brenda White
• From a High Place (1998) - Victoria
• Building Bombs (2000) - Isobel
• Book of Kings (short) (2002) - Carol
• Seabiscuit
  Seabiscuit
  Seabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression...
  
  (2003) - Molina Rojo Woman
• The Silent Cross (2003) - Carmen
• Lookin' for Some Posse (short) (2005) - Girl on Horse
• War of the Worlds
  War of the Worlds (2005 film)
  War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction film adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp. It is one of three film adaptations of War of the Worlds released that year, alongside The Asylum's version and...
  
  (2005) - News Producer

Television (actor)

• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  (1 episode, Episode #1.12774, 1997) - Olivia
• Law & Order
  Law & Order
  Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
  
  (1 episode, "Burned", 1997) - Ellen Rattinger
• The Agency (1 episode, "Soft Kills", 2003) - Adalia Montes
• The Shield
  The Shield
  The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...
  
  (14 episodes, 2002–2005) - Aurora Aceveda
• Cold Case (2 episodes, "Static" and "War at Home", 2006) - Alegria
• Saving Grace
  Saving Grace (TV series)
  Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series which premiered on TNT on July 23, 2007 and ran until June 21, 2010. The show stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series, as well as Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Laura San Giacomo, Bailey Chase, Bokeem Woodbine,...
  
  (1 episode, "Is There a Scarlet Letter on My Breast?", 2007) - Marrisa

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