Josie de Guzman

Josie de Guzman, also known as Jossie de Guzman, is an American actress and singer of Puerto Rican descent,^[1] best known for work in the theatre.^[2]

Career

Josie de Guzman graduated from the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro. After studying at the Boston Conservatory of Music, Guzman made her Broadway debut in 1978 as Lidia in the original production of Elizabeth Swados's Runaways. She returned to Broadway the following year to portray Gia Campbell in the original production of Joseph Stein and Alan Jay Lerner's Carmelina.^{[citation needed]}

In 1980 she was handpicked by Leonard Bernstein to portray Maria in the 1980 revival of West Side Story for which she received her first Tony Award nomination.^[3] She returned to Broadway in 1992 to portray Sarah Brown in Jerry Zaks's critically acclaimed revival of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls with Nathan Lane, Peter Gallagher, and Faith Prince. For her performance she earned a second Tony Award nomination.^[3] The recording of the cast album was filmed for broadcast on PBS's Great Performances. She is currently a member of the Acting Company of the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas.

Although Guzman's career has been in theatre, she has occasionally performed on television and in films. Her television credits include The Tenth Month (1979), Miami Vice (1984), Reading Rainbow (1998), and Third Watch (2002). Her film credits include F/X (1986)

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	F/X	Marisa Velez
1991	F/X2

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	The Tenth Month	Iliana	Television film
1983	Guiding Light	Anita	—
1984	Miami Vice	Maria Rivera	Episode: "Brother's Keeper"
1984	The Cosby Show	Mrs. Ramos	Episode: "How Ugly Is He?"
1998	Reading Rainbow	—	Episode: "Saturday Sancocho"
2002	Third Watch	Alicia	Episode: "The Unforgiven"

Stage

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes	Ref.
1978	Runaways	Lidia	Broadway (debut) Also provided translations and original material in Spanish	[4]
1979	Carmelina	Gia Campbell	Broadway	[5]
1980	West Side Story	Maria	Broadway	[6]
1991	Fuente Ovejuna	Laurencia	Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger	[7]
	Nick & Nora	Maria Valdez	Broadway	[8]
1992	Guys and Dolls	Sarah Brown	Broadway	[9]
1997	Carmen	Carmen	Court Theatre (Chicago)	[10]
2001	The Music Man	Marian Paroo	Cherry County Playhouse	[11]
2003	Diosa	Amber	Hartford Stage	[12]
2004	Nine	Luisa	North Shore Music Theatre	[13]
2009	The Man Who Came to Dinner	Maggie Cutler	Alley Theatre	[14]
	Rock 'n' Roll	Esme		[15]
2010	Mrs. Mannerly	Mrs. Mannerly		[16]
2011	August: Osage County	Barbara Fordham		[17]
	And Then There Were None	Vera Claythorne		[18]
2012	The Seagull	Arkadina		[19]
	Noises Off	Belinda Blair		[20]
	Black Coffee	Barbara Armory		[21]
	Death of a Salesman	Linda Loman		[22]
2013	Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club	Club Secretary		[23]
	The Hollow	Lady Lucy		[24]
	You Can't Take It with You	Penelope Sycamore		[25]
2014	Communicating Doors	Ruella		[26]
	Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike	Masha		[27]
	A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas	Spirit of Christmas Past		[28]
2015	All My Sons	Kate Keller		[29]
	The Other Place	Juliana		[30]
2016	The Nether	Detective Morris		[31]
	Agatha Christie's Spider's Web	Clarissa Hailsham-Brown		[32]
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Hippolyta, Titania		[33]