Alana De La Garza

Alana De La Garza

...as Connie Rubirosa

Characters Connie Rubirosa
Date of birth June 18, 1976
Place of birth Columbus, Ohio




IMDb profile

Alana De La Garza is an actress who is known for her portrayal of A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa in Law & Order. She replaced cast member Annie Parisse (Alexandra Borgia) as the series A.D.A. starting with the Season 17 episode "Fame". After the cancelation of Law & Order, she continued to play Rubirosa in Law & Order: LA after a midseason cast reshuffle. She then reprised the role in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Jersey Breakdown".

Along with Jerry Orbach, Dann Florek, Chris Noth, and Fred Dalton Thompson, she is one of five Law & Order cast members who later joined the regular cast of one of the spin-off series.

Before Law & Order, De la Garza had starred on the short-lived show The Mountain (with Anson Mount and Mitch Pileggi). After Law & Order: LA, she went on to star on the shows Forever (with Judd Hirsch and Lorraine Toussaint) and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (with Tyler James Williams).

She portrayed Isobel Castille in Dick Wolf's CBS drama series FBI with Missy Peregrym, John Boyd, Kathleen Munroe, Charlotte Sullivan, and her former Law & Order co-star Jeremy Sisto. She also reprises her FBI character in FBI: Most Wanted (with Dylan McDermott) and FBI: International (with Luke Kleintank).

De la Garza married her long-time boyfriend, Michael Roberts, a writer, on May 31, 2008, in Orlando, Orange County, Florida. They have a son and a daughter. Alana is a distant cousin of TV writer-producer René Balcer, sharing a common relative Juan Cortina, a Mexican folk hero known as the Rio Grande Robin Hood.