Rose Portillo is an actress and writer, known for Happy Birthday, …And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him, The Mean Season, and Exorcist II: The Heretic. Other film credits include Fathers and Sons, Love Always, Breaking Through, Palomino, Taken Away, Best Kept Secrets, Victims, Zoot Suit, Where the Buffalo Roam, Kill Me If You Can, and Panic in Echo Park.

Television credits include Detective Lopez on FOX’s Party of Five, Millie Zamora on Eisenhower & Lutz, and Rhonda Gallegos on CBS’ Cagney & Lacey.  

Theatre credits include her Broadway debut as Dell Barrios in Zoot Suit (Winter Garden Theatre); and regionally, as Cecilia in Chilean Holiday (Actors Theatre of Louisville).