Arianna Ortiz is a Peruvian-American actor, writer and filmmaker. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, she studied theater at The California Institute of the Arts (CALARTS). She has appeared in countless episodes of television, films, and on stage. In 2025, she was part of the cast of the smash festival hit Fucktoys (SXSW Special Jury Prize, Newfest Grand Jury Prize). She was critically acclaimed for her work in Edson Oda’s 2020 Sundance-winning sci-fi drama Nine Days (Sony Pictures Classics) opposite Winston Duke (Us, Black Panther).

She produced and starred in The Wound, a hit short film at festivals that boasts an engaged international audience online. Her dark thriller screenplay, Mama, Don’t, was selected for the 2022-23 cohort of NYWIFT’s The Writer’s Lab, funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. She received the 2024 Stowe Launch Advanced Development Fellowship for her comedy feature script The Bastard Children of Javier Ortiz, which was also selected for The 2024 Latine List by The Black List and NALIP. Both features are currently in development as part of a Texas trilogy of stories that range from the harrowing to the darkly comic.

She is currently set to direct the feature adaptation of Stephanie Alison Walker’s stage play The Abuelas, which is in active development.