Ivonne Coll

"A formidable actress as she continues to deliver breakthrough performances on television, film and theater" -Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Ivonne Coll is a Theater, Television, and Film award-winning actress born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico where as a child she trained in classical ballet and flamenco dance with Walter Mercado. This marked her artistic debut at age six with Mercado's Baby Ballet company for the American soldiers in the Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. Ms. Coll's first film was The Godfather Part II. Director Francis Ford Coppola was looking for a night club act for the film while looking for locations in Puerto Rico. After meeting Ivonne Coll he decided to create the role of the Red Headed Yolanda so she could have her first film credit. In the 1960's while she was a psychology student at The University of Puerto Rico she was working part time as a Haute Couture runway fashion model for top designers in the island such as Carlota Alfaro, Fernando