Ruth Livier

Actor

Born: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

BIOGRAPHY

Ruth Livier is a Mexican-American actress best known for her role as Yolanda Santiago on the Showtime television series Resurrection Boulevard. Ruth recurred in Beverly Hills, 90210 playing Joy Taylor, Kellys (Jenny Garth) half-sister. She also had a recurring roles in Soldier of Fortune, Inc., playing the antagonist, Katrina Herrera, and in Weird Science, playing Michael Manasseris love interest. Other guest starring roles include: Switched at Birth, Haunted (opposite Matthew Fox), NYPD Blue, The Ghost Whisperer, Becker (opposite Ted Danson), and The Pretender.Her film work includes Sam Raimis Drag Me To Hell, Michael Stevens Bad City Blues, One Last Flight, Game of Life, Ranchero (opposite Danny Trejo) and the Fwak! animated feature Los Campeones de la Lucha Libre. Other voice-over work includes: the 2012 Grammy Award-nominated audio drama The Mark of Zorro, where she played the starring role of Lolita Pulido opposite Val Kilmer as Zorro, several voices on Fox TVs King of the Hill and la quinceañera on Playhouse Disneys Handy Manny. She has also voiced for several video games, including the role of Inspector Carmelita Fox in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, as well as various roles in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Saints Row: The Third, and Dead Rising 3,.Theatre credits include work at some of most prestigious theaters in the West Coast including: The premiere play at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (A Perfect Wedding, dir: Gordon Davidson), South Coast Repertory (Lovers & Executioners, dir: Bill Rauch), Long Beach Opera (The Indian Queen, dir: David Schweizer), The Met (Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas), East LA Classic Theater (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), The Wiltern (Latinologues), The Lillian Theatre (Lost Angeles), Friends and Artists (De Donde?/ Dentity Crisis), Mark Taper Forums (NWF). Ruth also toured with Mexico’s premiere comedian, Eugenio Derbéz, in Rick Najera’s Latinologues.As a writer and New Media producer, Ruths web series Ylse (www.Ylse.net) garnered her critical praise in addition to the 2010 Imagen Award; the first in Imagen Awards history. Ylse also won Cal State LAs 2009 Reel Rasquache Award for best web series and was a finalist in the NextTV web series competition. Ms. Livier was featured on the cover of the WGAs Written By magazine for being the first person to become a member of the Writers Guild of America through her work in New Media.

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