Eileen Galindo is a renowned film, stage, and television actor with a career spanning multiple decades. Her most recent notable project is starring opposite Oscar Isaac in the Academy Award-nominated short film The Letter Room, a dark prison comedy that explores the secret life of a correctional officer transferred to the letter room.
Her impressive resume includes starring roles in award-winning short films such as Mosquito: The Bite of Passage, Caprichosas, and Woman Child. On the silver screen, she has appeared in comedies like The Binge, Granddaddy Daycare, Hello My Name Is Frank, and Body High.
On stage, Eileen has showcased her talent in both Off Broadway and regional theatre productions across the country. One of her most notable performances was alongside the legendary Chita Rivera in "The House of Bernarda Alba" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. She was also nominated for the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Performance in "The Clean House" at International City Theatre in Long Beach, CA, and won the Garland Award the same year.
In television, Eileen recurs as Isabel Vega in the highly anticipated second season of the hit CBS All Access series Why Women Kill, premiering this summer. She has also made guest appearances on popular shows such as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory, NCIS, Stumptown, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., and The Affair, among many others.
Throughout her extensive career in voiceover work, Eileen has lent her voice to iconic characters on long-running animated series including Dora The Explorer and Phineas and Ferb.
Eileen is a passionate advocate for artists and has been an outspoken activist for diversity in casting. At the age of twenty-one, she became instrumental in the non-traditional casting movement, which gained momentum in the 1990s. Her efforts have contributed to a more diverse representation on Broadway. She has also served as a board member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Originally from New York City, Eileen currently resides in Los Angeles.
