Karina Arroyave

Acting

Karina Arroyave

Born 1969-07-16 · Colombia

Karina Arroyave (born July 16, 1969) is a gorgeous 5-foot-2 Native Colombian-American television, and film actress. Best known as Jamey Farrell in 24. Is of Native Colombian descent. Has appeared in a total of 3 "dedicated teacher" films where the teacher tries to get the inner city students to want to learn (One Eight Seven, Dangerous Minds, and Lean on Me). She also had a role in Crash as wife of Daniel, the Indigenous Latino American locksmith. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karina Arroyave, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Crash poster
7.2

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

Crash

2005

Falling Down poster
7.4

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Falling Down

1993

Dangerous Minds poster
7.0

Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.

Dangerous Minds

1995

One Eight Seven poster
6.7

When a Brooklyn high school student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, Garfield feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but the same student stabs Trevor soon after. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as his old one—including three Indigenous Latino American males and one European-American male claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.

One Eight Seven

1997

Lean On Me poster
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When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.

Lean On Me

1989

Flawless poster
6.1

An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.

Flawless

1999

In Too Deep poster
6.4

Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an assumed identity to penetrate Gittens' criminal empire, he makes a disturbing discovery -- he kind of likes being a gangster.

In Too Deep

1999

The Cowboy Way poster
5.7

Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.

The Cowboy Way

1994

Empire poster
6.2

Big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top, Victor soon finds out that he's been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge.

Empire

2002

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York poster
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Harry Lehman is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New York. Wallets stuffed with cash have been replaced by easily cancelled credit cards, and Harry struggles to make ends meet as he cares for his disabled wife, Rosie. When he unwittingly purloins and fences a valuable USB stick, Harry finds himself in a race against time to return the loot or face the rage of a vengeful crime family.

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

2026

Adam poster
6.8

Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.

Adam

2009

Holy Rollers poster
5.7

Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.

Holy Rollers

2010

Trial by Jury poster
5.4

Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.

Trial by Jury

1994

First One In poster
4.7

Thrown off a reality show in disgrace, an unemployed real estate agent joins a group of slightly menopausal tennis players to rescue her career and take down the reigning queen of the court.

First One In

2020

Blind Spot poster
6.2

Tragedy befalls Congresswoman Nell Harrington and her family when her son-in-law dies in a car accident, and Harrington's pregnant daughter, Phoebe, is propelled into a downward spiral. Things gets worse when Harrington learns that her son-in-law was on cocaine at the time of the accident, and her daughter was using right along with him. What does this mean for Harrington's impending Senate campaign -- and the health of Phoebe's unborn child?

Blind Spot

1993

Missing Pieces poster
5.7

Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.

Missing Pieces

2001

Adrift in Manhattan poster
5.7

The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.

Adrift in Manhattan

2007

The Reunion poster
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An old-money family gathers at their estate to celebrate the matriarch’s birthday—but their real intention is to send her off to a nursing home and begin scheming over her inheritance.

The Reunion

2024

Friends at Last poster
6.0

Some time after her messy divorce, Fanny Connelyn realises her ex-husband is becoming her best friend.

Friends at Last

1995

Lost Cat Corona poster
5.7

A play-it-safe guy must search for his wife's missing cat, bringing him face-to-face with the colorful, wacky, and sometimes, the more dangerous element of his neighborhood, forcing him to confront his fears and rethink his M.O.

Lost Cat Corona

2017

You Can't Stay Here poster
NR

Rick, a photographer, witnesses the brutal murder of a gay man in Central Park. With the cops taking little interest in the crime, a dangerous and sexy game of cat and mouse ensues between Rick and the killer, Adam.

You Can't Stay Here

2023