Karina Arroyave

Acting

Karina Arroyave

Born July 16, 1969 · Colombia (age 57)

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 o…

Known For

CrashCrash · 2005
Crash
7.22005
MovieDrama
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.
Falling DownFalling Down · 1993
Falling Down
7.41993
MovieCrimeDrama
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
One Eight SevenOne Eight Seven · 1997
One Eight Seven
6.71997
MovieDramaThriller
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 four Latin Americans and a European American claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.
Dangerous MindsDangerous Minds · 1995
Dangerous Minds
7.01995
MovieDrama
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.
Lean On MeLean On Me · 1989
Lean On Me
7.31989
MovieDrama
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.
FlawlessFlawless · 1999
Flawless
6.11999
MovieComedyDrama
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.
In Too DeepIn Too Deep · 1999
In Too Deep
6.41999
MovieDramaAction
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.
The Cowboy WayThe Cowboy Way · 1994
The Cowboy Way
5.71994
MovieActionComedy
Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.

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