Feature acting debut, playing a young girl who consents to transport heroin into the US, in director Joshua Marston's "Maria Full of Grace"; received SAG and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress

Made her New York stage debut in an Off-Off-Broadway staging of Shakespeare's "King John"

Portrayed a Mexican immigrant working in a slaughterhouse in Richard Linklater's "Fast Food Nation"

Co-starred in Ethan Hawke's adaptation of his own novel, "The Hottest State"

Played a supporting role in the Mike Newell adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Portrayed Ernesto Guevara's daughter in Steven Soderbergh's biopic, "Che"

Cast alongside Matthew Broderick in Kenneth Lonergan's Off-Broadway play "The Starry Messenger"