ALUNA

Biography

The Colombian-American Actress, Director and Producer, Paula Garces has been breaking down barriers and opening doors for Latinos in Hollywood for many years. Paula recently costarred on TNT’s season 6 series “Major Crimes” and NETFLIX’s original hit comedy series “ON MY BLOCK“ as Geny Martinez. After 30 years in the industry, Netflix invited Mrs Garces to attend their exclusive Netflix Original Series Directors Development Program ran by legendary award-winning director Paris C K Barclay, which she completed in 2020. In 2021 she was finally given an opportunity to Direct episode 2 of season 4 on Netflix hit show ON MY Block. She also directed  Netflix’s Freeridge in 2022. Furthering her education and experience as a director, she has shadowed showrunner/director Lauren Iungerich (On My Block Netflix), director/producer Billy Gierhart (SWAT CBS), director producer Jen Celotta (Cobra Kai Netflix), prducer/director Milena Govich (FBI Most Wanted, CBS). In 2024, Mrs Garces is slated to Direct Netflix’s hit show “Lincoln Lawyer”.

Paula Garces is one of the first Latina’s to star in hit daytime soaps like All My Children and Guiding Light. Ms. Garces has also starred in hit primetime shows such as The Shield, Defying Gravity and Warehouse 13. Her acting credits also include recurring and guest starring roles on The Sopranos, Law & Order: SVU, CSI: Miami, The Good Wife, Elementary, Knight Rider, Chase and Breakout Kings. She also starred as Flora Hernandez in Marc Cherry’s hit Lifetime series Devious Maids; executive produced by Eva Longoria. On the silver screen, Ms. Garces is best known for her starring roles in films like Dangerous Minds, ClockStoppers, Marci X and the cult-classic film franchise hit Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and its two wildly successful sequels: Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, as a fan favorite: Maria, which combined grossed well over $100 million dollars worldwide. At the 2014 Hamptons International Film Festival, Ms. Garces received rave reviews for her starring role performance in the critically acclaimed indie “The Maid’s Room”. Expanding her career further in 2010 Paula Garces created, wrote, executive produced, co-directed and starred in “The Mun2 Look” for NBC Universal/Mun2 network for 2 seasons. In 2011 she co-created, Directed, co-wrote and became the voice behind the popular online Latina Superhero character “Aluna.” Aluna at her peak was chosen online for play more than 90 thousand times a day worldwide. Due to high demand, she recently rebooted her “Aluna” comic book series that she co-created with Antonio Hernandez by engaging the writing team behind the Assassins Creed Franchise, Batman: Arkham Origins and Prince of Persia. In 2017 these books made their big return at San Diego Comic Con. In 2021 Garces voiced, co-create, and produce the Smash Hit Aluna Video Game “Aluna: Sentinel of the Shards” an Action RPG for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Sony PlayStation and PC Steam. Mrs Garces is considered by many to be the only Latina Actress to have her own successful Latina Superhero Comic Book & Video Game Character IP. She plans to bring Aluna to live action TV series …