Award winning film and television actress Yareli Arizmendi is regarded as one of the most talented and respected actresses. Arizmendi is best known for her tour de force performances in Like Water for Chocolate, the cult classic A Day Without a Mexican and Emmy-winning television shows such as Six Feet Under, Heroes, House, The Agency, 24, Medium, NYPD Blue and Chicago Hope. Born in Mexico, raised in the United States, the grand dame of Latin American cinema had to coin a word, AmeXican to describe herself. "It is a declaration of identity for the 21st century; my own account on how I prepared to wage battle in a world spilling over its human-made borders," explains Yareli. Forever committed to social change, she worked with Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino and toured with Teatro de la Esperanza to Nicaragua. She translated and staged Latin American plays, as well as developed bilingual in-schools programs with The Old Globe Theater. In 1995 Arizmendi received the Princess Grace Foundation Statuette Award for Outstanding Achievement from Princess Caroline of Monaco. Her PBS Series Nostalgia Maldita 1-900-Mexico is based on a one-woman show that received critical acclaim in the United States. Recent work includes the motion pictures Don’t Let me Drown and AMERICA with Edward James Olmos. Arizmendi is also promoting the film Naco es Chido a movie destined to be a classic of Latin cinema. At this time, Arizmendi is preparing for a confidential project further information soon to be released! Arizmendi received a BA in Political Science and her MFA in Theatre at University of California, San Diego.