Alana De La Garza has established herself as a household name on television. De La Garza born 1976 to her Irish mother as well as an Irish mother and a Mexican father, in Columbus Ohio. De La Garza moved soon to Texas to study physical therapy at the University of Texas. De La Garza didn't stay long in Texas before moving to Orlando, Florida. In Orlando, she played many roles, ranging from local independent films to world-wide commercials. Despite the small parts, she realized that she was a performer with a love. In 2001, she moved from the Midwest to New York where her first role was on All My Children's daytime soap-opera in the role of Rosa Santos. Throughout the first decade of 2000, she played minor roles on JAG Las Vegas and Two and a Half Men. In 2004, her first major show was The Mountain. The character was Maria Serrano and De La Garza was lucky enough to be a part of a cast that included some of the best TV actors such as Barbara Hershey Oliver Hudson Penn Badgley ...