Coming from a puerto rican family background, born in New York and raised in New Jersey, of course there’s a lot of spunk and attitude. This Jersey New Yorican had to learn to survive many moves and many changes in surrounding cultures. Marilyn’s petiteness and shyness helped in making her aware of others who were treated badly due to differences, even if that difference was just popularity.
Seeing and hearing of many injustices growing up Marilyn wished there were a way to help, which fits in with her niche “Clashing of Ideologies, Cultures and Belief Systems” where the characters she has portrayed, fights for the rights of others in many ways. Even if it’s the character she portrays like the one many have grown to love as Veronica in one of the most popular films of 1994, the cult classic Clerks.
Marilyn continues to be drawn to those kinds of characters, which is evident in the independent films such as Starship Rising and Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter playing a Warlord and saving the planet from invasion.
Marilyn has played many strong characters with heart and weaknesses in staged productions before moving to LA in 1998 such as Crimes of the Heart, Same Time Next Year, Wait Until Dark and many more.
Since moving to LA, Marilyn produced along with fellow acting students, a theater production titled Bedroom Stories, a series of one act plays, with great reviews directed by then acting coach Richard Kline who has since moved and now coaches in New Jersey .
Other roles that show diversity in her acting, credits include, short films, Bad Hair day, Negotiations which won official selection DGA first cut, Roadkill, winning BestFest America 1st place horror/thriller 2007, Dig, Best Director nomination and Marilyn receiving Best Supporting Actress Nomination and Neighbors. Feature films, Dead and Gone, Alien Armageddon, Geek USA and Lake Eerie.
Because being creative is all she knows, Marilyn doesn’t just act, she has worked in salons, freelanced as a hair and makeup artist behind the camera on many a productions, worked on weddings and has also done still photography on set and shoots actors headshots.
In 2017 Marilyn and several other filmmaker formed a group and created their own short films in which she directed a short titled A Mother's Love written by Shelby Lee, a member of the film group.
In 2022 it has started screening at various film festivals where it is very well received by audiences.