Liana Arauz

Liana Arauz is an American actress known for her work in Film, Television, and Theatre. Born in Managua, Nicaragua, Liana witnessed civil war and the ramifications of living under a communist regime first-hand. The family traveled often and she spent school years living in Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and Belize, and her college years in the US, Chile and Japan. Raised in a family of mainly doctors and engineers, she is the only one to choose to dedicate her life to arts. She started doing theater at age four and wrote her first play at thirteen, for which she won first place at a state wide arts competition in Puerto Rico. She moved to NYC to train with Academy Award winning director, Mike Nichols, at the New Actors Workshop, as well as Second City founder, Paul Sills. She was cast in her first professional role by the late David Hugh Jones, Artistic Dir. of the Royal Shakespeare Company, as the understudy for the Public Theater production "The Controversy of Valladolid", portraying an Ind