Coral Peña
Coral Peña is a Dominican actor. She is known for playing the role of NASA flight director Aleida Rosales on the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind.
Early life and education
Peña was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and raised by a single mother in Harlem, New York. She graduated from St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School.Peña took acting classes while attending the Peddie School in New Jersey, and decided to pursue a career in that field. After graduating from Peddie, Peña studied drama at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and RADA.
Career
Peña made her debut film appearance in the 2017 film The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg.Peña was cast opposite Corey Hawkins, Miranda Otto and Jimmy Smits in the reboot of 24 titled 24: Legacy in 2016. In 2020 she joined the main cast of For All Mankind in its second season playing the older Aleida Rosales.
Peña's stage performances include the role of Ry in the off-Broadway premiere of BLKS at the MCC Theater, Kit in Our Dear Dead Drug Lord at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and Ophelia in Robert O'Hara's production of Hamlet, starring Patrick Ball as Hamlet and Gina Torres as Gertrude, at the Mark Taper Forum. The Los Angeles Times praised Peña's performance in Hamlet, noting her "formidable Ophelia might be the production's saving grace. Fiercely independent, she answers to no one's morality but her own."
In 2023, Peña was nominated for an Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her work on For All Mankind.
She currently narrates the American version of Antiques Roadshow.