Liana Mendoza

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Birth Name: Ericka Mansky

Age: 39, born 19 November 1984

Country of origin: Spain

Height: 5' 4"

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Description: Liana Mendoza, relative to Vicente Fernandez (The King of Ranchera music throughout the Latin world). Grew up between North East Los Angeles and San Juan Del Monte Rancho in Guadalajara, Mexico. She has join the cast of the FX hit Emmy-Award Winning show and franchise American Horror Story: Hotel. The show has garnered much recognition and most recently the cast was nominated for a Golden Globe 2016. Miss Mendoza started performing as a tap dancer by age 3 and moved onto modern jazz, ballet and hip hop and was invited into Hamilton High School for Performing Arts as well as asked to join a professional dance company which lea Liana Mendoza, relative to Vicente Fernandez (The King of Ranchera music throughout the Latin world). Grew up between North East Los Angeles and San Juan Del Monte Rancho in Guadalajara, Mexico. She has join the cast of the FX hit Emmy-Award Winning show and franchise American Horror Story: Hotel. The show has garnered much recognition and most recently the cast was nominated for a Golden Globe 2016.

Miss Mendoza started performing as a tap dancer by age 3 and moved onto modern jazz, ballet and hip hop and was invited into Hamilton High School for Performing Arts as well as asked to join a professional dance company which lead her to tour and perform with various musical acts.

Mendoza, after having trained in martial arts and hand to hand combat for over a decade, began her career in the world of acting as a stunt-woman. Mendoza was honored by Sag-Aftra with an Appreciation Diversity Award and given Special Congressional Recognition for her work as a stunt woman on G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, Jimmy Kimmel, Crank 2: High Voltage, Decisions as well as her volunteer work in the community with at-risk and inner city youth.

Her first principle role was given by Master P (Percy Miller) as she starred alongside Katt Williams and Master P in the TV Movie "Internet Dating" as Claudia. She went on to Star in such TV Shows as Scandal, Jimmy Kimmel Skits (as Kim Kardashian) as well as Bones, Disney's Epic Offenders and returned to her stunt woman roots in "A Haunted House" starring Marlon Wayans.

Liana Mendoza grew up in a single-parent household in a neighborhood nicknamed "Frog Town" due to the vast quantity of frogs located in the area of North East Los Angeles with her brother Adam.

Mendoza credits her aunts Yvette Saucedo and Juanita Anguiano with being the biggest influence for her being able to have obtained her dreams, goals and success. "Their support was insurmountable and necessary for my mentality of success" she states.

Believing in the philosophy that that we all pass the elevator back down--in the words of Jack Lemmon--she involves herself in youth programs and charity organizations including Operation Smile, Sober College, Help as One, Every Monday Matters and Students Run LA, in which five at-risk youth ran the Los Angeles Marathon with her. Miss Mendoza is the Co-Founder of Carbon Pipe Dreams which helps to spread education on preserving the planet. ... (more)