Stephanie Beatriz

2019
2019
2015
2020
2017
2013
2013

Birthday

February 10, 1981

Number of Episodes

All except:

Coral Palms Pt. 1 and The Box

Portrays

Rosa Diaz

Stephanie Beatriz is an Argentine-American actress. She portrayed the breakout character Rosa Diaz on all eight seasons of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine television series. She directed the episode He Said, She Said in the show's Season Six.

Beatriz is an influential actor who has brought her own experiences with her bisexuality to the show. In the Season 5, episode "Game Night," Stephanie Beatriz's character comes out as bisexual, making her the only LGBTQIA+ actor to represent an LGBTQIA+ character on the show. Her character's coming out was inspired by Beatriz's own coming out in the Summer of 2015.

Getting To Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Beatriz is an alumni of Stephens College. After acquiring a degree in theater she moved to New York City where she performed in a myriad of theater productions including the Shakespeare Festival in Oregon. She performed in a play in Los Angeles where she was scouted by a Los Angeles based agency. With this she decided to try her hand at film and television and moved to Los Angeles with then boyfriend, Dan Harmon. He would eventually come to play Martin Cozner.

During her first year in Los Angeles Beatriz booked the roles in television shows The Closer, Southland and a recurring role as Sophia Vegera's sister, Sonia, in Modern Family.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

The character, Rosa Diaz, was originally created for Chelsea Peretti, with the audition calling for a fiery red headed woman named Meghan. Chelsea read for the part and casting’s feedback was that she wasn’t believable as a cop. From there the creators created the civilian administrator role of Gina for Chelsea and the role of “Meghan” remained open.

Stephanie Beatriz’s original audition was for the role of Amy Santiago, as she was the only latina character called for auditions. Casting Director Allison Jones encouraged Stephanie to audition for the character of Meghan instead. When the time came for her callback that was in front of the creators Allison Jones had hair and makeup create her into the character she knew was meant to be.

It wasn’t until Stephanie booked the role of Meghan that the creators informed her they were thinking about changing her character’s name to something soft to juxtapose how tough she is. When she received the script for the Pilot she saw the new name, Rosa Diaz. Beatriz interpreted the name as two great signs from the universe. Her mom's name is Rosario and her previous landlady in New York happened to have the name Mrs. Diaz.^[1]