Tia Texada

I love Tia Texada work on Third Watch. She plays the part of Sgt. Cruz very well. I have seen just about all her work so far and I wish she can be seen in alot more. She had a small role in the movie "Bait" that starred Jamie Foxx, which I think she should have been shown more. This is truly a star who I would love to see have more parts in movies. I love you Tia, keep up the good work.

Texada plays the character of Sergeant Maritza Cruz on NBC's 'Third Watch'. Cruz wasn't perceived as the friendliest of characters when she first appeared, and throughout her time on the series, viewers have either loved her, or hated her. Personally, I loved her. Maritza Cruz was depicted as a no-nonsense, tough, streetwise cop who would do anything to get to keep the criminals off the streets.

Unfortunately for her, the writers didn’t give her the most favourable plotlines to work with, such as shooting one of the most-loved characters in the series [Yokas], working for the FBI and seducing Bosco in order to get his help on a case which made her appear corrupt in her methods and while these things are what have made the audience hate her, she still has to put up with a lot of sh*t.

The death of her sister as a result of a drug addiction and being the victim of a brutal rape while undercover obviously affected Cruz on an extremely personal level, but all of these things only helped to illustrate the range and depth of Texada’s talent as a serious actor.

Tia Texada is one of the most talent actress that I\'ve ever saw on TV. Seeing her Sgt.Cruz on Third Watch is just like watch Angelina Jolie in \"Girl Interrupted\", she breaks all the rules of the typical good girl. She\'s evil, breathtaking, kick-ass and hatefull lovely. I wish we could see more characters like her. And I think she deserves a spin-off or least Tia Texada should be the leading actress of any tv show.

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she is very sexy, and this is a gal talking! if her charater was a real person i would want to be just like her. she was superb in spartan and phonebooth, i should know i work at BLOCKBUSTERS! AMAZING!!!

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Tia Texada is one of the most talented stars ever to be on Third Watch. She has only been a series star on 2 shows, but she is a great actress. She's got the talent and the looks. Even though I hated her character's (Sgt. Maritza Cruz) guts on Third Watch, I still do love her acting. I think that the writers for Third Watch made this unbelievably great actress's character on Third Watch made for crap. The audience started to hate her when she first appeared and was a big ***** on Third Watch, and then they made her shoot Yokas (Molly Price (one of the favoured characters on Third Watch)), and then they made her lie and be part of the FBI, and then they killed her in the storyline. I think Tia Texada got screwed over by the Third Watch writers by making her a real big hated woman on TV.