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wisely. Hey there, I'm Alicia Menendez. This is Latina to Latina. Each week, we talk with

Latinas on the Rise.

Hello from Stephanie Biazreza's house. Today I'm talking with the actor in Brooklyn Nine-Nine Star about landing one of the best roles on television and almost losing it, her recent wedding,

and how she's sharing her personal experiences and struggles

so that others might feel less alone.

Hi, Stephanie.

Hi, thanks for being here in my home in Los Angeles, California.

Yay, you're getting the real L.A. hipster Silver Lake scene right now.

You're really in it. I get the sense that you are not great at being famous because most people are

not like, yeah, could you just come to my house? Could you just, here's my cell phone? Just, I mean, I don't know. I don't, you know, here's my cell phone? I mean, I don't know.

I don't, you know, there's like, I think there's different levels of fame, obviously.

There's like, you can't go outside with someone, without someone screaming your name, which is the Terry Cruz level, I think.

And then there's, I think, a place where actors get to where they've done some really consistently good work on, say, a sitcom and fans of that show know who they are.

And, you know, there's sometimes when I'll meet like a teenage kid who like explodes into tears and is really excited to see me.

I rarely get recognized. I would define myself as a character actress. who like explodes into tears and is really excited to see me.

I rarely get recognized.

I would define myself as a character actress more than anything else because I find that I really transform in the roles that I'm in.

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