Discovered by Spike Lee while dancing in a club, Rosie Perez was an Oscar-nominated actress and producer whose performances combined a brassy dynamism with an earthy sexuality. Lee provided her debut in his landmark 1989 feature “Do the Right Thing,” which led to subsequent feature roles as well as an Emmy-nominated turn as choreographer for the comedy series “In Living Color” (Fox, 1990-94). She soon shed her Fly Girl persona and displayed a skill at emotionally nuanced performances in films like “White Men Can’t Jump” (1993), “Fearless” (1993) and “The 24-Hour Woman” (1997). Perez later
