Biography

Yetta Gottesman is a Puerto Rican actress, director, and audiobook narrator of Puerto Rican and Jewish heritage, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, where she lived for ten years as a child. She is 5′ 8″ (173 cm) tall and completely fluent in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. A lifetime member of The Actors Studio and LAByrinth Theater Company, she splits her time between New York, Los Angeles, and Puerto Rico. On stage she originated Celeste in John Patrick Shanley's Where's My Money? and Loretta/Mary Magdalene in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman at The Public Theater), and received a Best Actress Ovation Award nomination for Mariela in the Desert at the Denver Center Theater (2010). Her most notable film credits include Ana in Rabbit Hole (2010, with Nicole Kidman), Hip Bridesmaid in 27 Dresses (2008), Poker Room Cashier in Lucky You (2007), J-Date Woman in Jake Squared (2013, with Jennifer Jason Leigh), Chay Caldwell Lara in Sex, Death and Bowling (2015, with Selma Blair), Sophia in Namour (2016), Juror #3 in Driven (2018, with Judy Greer), Night Nurse in The Last Thing He Wanted (2020, with Anne Hathaway), Nurse Grant in Chick Fight (2020), Blanche in Attraction to Paris (2021), Julia in A Stage of Twilight (2022), and Carmen in Ramona at Midlife (2025). On television she appeared in Nurse Jackie (2009), Sex and the City (1998), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), Gossip Girl (2007), StartUp (2017), and The Oath (2018–2019), and she also served as extras casting assistant on Malcolm X (1992, directed by Spike Lee).