Age: 40
female
Alyssa Diaz was born on September 7, 1985, in the city of Northridge (California), in the United States. Colombian and Mexican - American descent, Alyssa studied at Bishop Alemany High School. She began acting at the beginning of the new millennium, participating in some episodes of various series such as "CSI: Miami" and "The Brothers Garcia", "American Family". In 2005, she won the role of Celia Ortega on the popular soap opera "As the World Turns", in which she played for over 56 episodes. She later had some recurring roles, such as the Mercedes Moretta on the television series "Southland" and was a guest artist at shows, which include "The Unit", "Greek", "CSI: New York", "Three Rivers", "Lie to me" or "law & order: Los Angeles (Law & Order: Los Angeles)". Alyssa is currently working on "The Nine Lives of Chloe King" series which is broadcast by the ABC Family sign, and which plays the role of Jasmine, cousin of the protagonist Chloe King (Skyler Samuels), who discovers that she belongs to an ancient race call the Mai, and has powers similar to the of a feline, including their nine lives. Alyssa, that also filmed some short films and telefilms, participated in her first feature film in 2005, integrating the cast of the comedy "How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer" starring America Ferrera. More recently filmed the horror 'Shark Night 3D' movie (2011) which co-starred along with Sara Paxton and Dustin Milligan. Her latest work for this medium was in the action movie "Red Dawn", whose filming was completed recently and which has the lead of Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, and Josh Hutcherson.
Alyssa Diaz
The Great-Aunt Vivienne (in memory fragments)
for The Great-Aunt Vivienne (in memory fragments) in The Hollow Season
Suggested by mr95
She inherited the house. The house had its own ideas about inheritance. A gothic supernatural horror film that understands horror as a psychological state before it is a genre. Nadia Alcott, 28, inherits a large, isolated house in the Pacific Northwest from a great-aunt she never met. She is a bookbinder — someone whose professional life is about restoration and preservation, about the care of fragile, damaged things — and she arrives at the house intending to stay only long enough to assess what to do with it. The house has a specific quality: it is full of other people's memories, not as a metaphor but as a literal presence. Objects hold impressions. Rooms hold echoes. At night, the house shows Nadia things — not ghosts, exactly, but the residue of every significant emotional event that occurred within its walls. Some of these residues are beautiful. Some are terrible. All of them are pulling Nadia toward something the house wants her to understand. The film is a slow, patient, deeply atmospheric horror that earns its dread through accumulation rather than shock. Its climax is not a confrontation with a monster but a confrontation with a truth that has been building since the film's opening frame. Act One — The Arrival Nadia arrives. The house establishes its quality. The first memory fragment. The introduction of Daniel. The sense that the house has been waiting. Act Two — The Archive The accumulation of memories. What the house shows becoming more specific, more emotionally demanding. Nadia's sleep deteriorating. The question of why this house, why her. Act Three — The Inheritance The truth the house has been leading her toward. What Vivienne left behind and why. The ending is not horror's resolution but emotional completion — Nadia understanding something about herself she could not have understood without this house.
