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Juani Feliz is an actress born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the Bronx. Juani fell in love with acting at the age of 14 after getting involved in her middle school's play of Shakespeare's Othello. With an immediate love for the craft, Juani spent her spare time after school researching how to become a professional actress and begging her parents to drive her around the city for open calls and acting classes. Within a year, Juani found her first talent manager and started auditioning and booking her first few roles in TV and film.

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Juani's acting took a backseat when she left NYC to attend Harvard University. Wanting to explore the sciences in college, Juani studied Biomedical Engineering at Harvard. Right out of college, Juani worked at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Boston, where she worked on a clinical trial for a melanoma cancer vaccine and helped develop new biomaterials and drug delivery systems. During this time Juani also completed a Master's degree at Harvard. 

 

Despite having a blooming career in bioengineering, Juani yearned to return to acting. She moved back to NYC in 2016 to restart her acting career. Since her return, Juani has made it on the big screen with her roles in The Purge: Election Year and Canal Street. She's worked on various TV shows like Blue Bloods, Power, Shades of Blue, One Dollar and was one of 12 actors chosen to be a part of the 2017 ABC Discovers: NY Talent Showcase. Before the pandemic, Juani filmed her first network pilot as a series regular on the ABC romantic dramedy Until The Wedding and filmed for a major supporting role in the upcoming feature film Quiet In My Town.

 

Currently, Juani can be seen in Alex Garland's A24 action epic Civil War and will be seen starring in the upcoming horror thriller Birthrite. On the TV side, Juani can be seen as Alejandra Lopez in FX's Fleishman Is In Trouble, as Carmen in Ava DuVernay's HBO Max series DMZ , and as Isabela Benitez-Santiago in Tracy Oliver's Amazon comedy series Harlem. She can also be seen guest-starring in The Rookie: Feds, The Good Doctor and NCIS: Hawaii. Juani is currently filming for the third installment of Ridley Scott's AMC anthology series The Terror, titled Devil in Silver. 

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Juani's on-screen presence has started to garner the attention of Latin America. For two years in a row, Juani has been nominated for the "Best Actor/Actress Abroad" award in the Dominican Republic's biggest award show, Premios Soberano. Last year she was nominated for her work in Fleishman Is In Trouble and this year she was nominated for her work in Harlem. In 2022, Juani was named one of People en Español's "50 Mas Bellos" ("50 Most Beautiful") of 2022. Juani's goal is to play roles and tell stories that break the mold and defy stereotypes of Latina women in America, just as she has been able to do in real life. She hopes to use her artistic platform to inspire strength, confidence and possibility in women, people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, and anyone that finds themselves fighting adversity in pursuit of their dreams.