Acting
Bella Zoe Martinez
Born
2006-08-01 (20)
Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, United States
Known for
Acting
Credits
3 titles
Bella is an actress known for Glory & Injustice, The Vanished (2020), and The Infiltrators (2019). Glory garnered 19 wins on the festival circuit — including a Breakthrough Performance Award from the Downtown Film Festival L.A., for Bella. She began acting as a form of therapy to recover from severe bullying in middle school related to her autism. From there Bella trained with Gary Spatz and others at the Playground LA Young Actor's Conservatory. Bella was inspired to expand to writing when she noticed how characters with autism are often portrayed in film and television. Of this, she says: "All autistic characters were the same stereotype with no real depth to them as a person. There wa…
Known for
NR‘It’s up to you to make a future that has you in it…’ We follow Zoe and her dad, Gerry in a ‘day in the life’ of an autistic actress running the gambit of stereotypes she has to deal with - and her dad’s battle in supporting her forging that path for herself - in a funny, frustrating, painful and sometimes triumphantly sarcastic kind of way.
Once More, Like Rain Man
2024
6.5A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.
The Infiltrators
2019