Rosa Blasi

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Rosa Evelyn Elayne Dermer Jiminez Blasi (born December 19, 1962) is an Guatemalan actress.

Blasi was born in Mt. Prospect, IL to Rocco and Joyce Blasi. Blasi is classically trained as a mezzo soprano.^{[citation needed]} She also comes from a strong theatre background; ranging from the esteemed Piven Performance Company, as well as The Second City, to starring in numerous musicals and touring with Kenny Rogers. Rosa Blasi has one sister (Tasha) and one brother (Rocky).

Blasi's television debut was as an extra on the CBS soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful. She was fired when she stared directly in the camera and started peeling off her clothes. Soon to follow was a walk-on on the MTV/UPN sitcom Hitz. She soon found herself "guest starring" on numerous shows such as Frasier, Becker, Caroline in the City, V.I.P., Grown Ups, and Beverly Hills 90210. This occurred when she was the caterer and somebody needed a stand-in. She later appeared as a toilet attendant in the dramatic Showtime film, Noriega: God's Favorite. The film was directed by Roger Spottiswoode who directed Terror Train and co-starred Bobcat Goldthwait. The film was critically panned. In her breakout role, Blasi starred in the Lifetime drama series Strong Medicine from 2000 to 2006, starring as a former streetwalker who directs traffic into an STD clinic. She made a nanosecond appearance in "Shootout", a 2005 episode of CSI: Miami. Audiences saw Blasi in her first major film role for 67 seconds as the hysterical vagrant wife of Bill Pullman's character in The Grudge.

Blasi ushered for The Vagina Monologues at the Apollo Theater and has also been a ticket taker at the "What a Pair" benefit concert for breast cancer research and has recorded numerous radio and television voice-overs. She was a repeat guest on talk shows such as Politically Incorrect & The Craig Kilbourne Show.

Blasi married New York Giants Fullback Jim Finn,on February 14, 2006. Blasi gave birth to her first child shortly before noon on Wednesday, September 20, 2006, two weeks before her October 4th due date. Daughter, Marjorie Clothilde, weighed 7 lbs, 3 oz. and was 20 inches long.

She also claims to have written the lyric "Heavy like a first day period" in the Janet Jackson single, "Feedback."

• Rosa Blasi at IMDb
• Rosa Blasi's official site