EXCLUSIVE: S.W.A.T. alum Lina Esco, who will subsequent be seen in Joe Carnahan’s upcoming Netflix movie RIP alongside Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, has signed with Buchwald for illustration in all areas.
Esco is finest identified for her function as officer Christina Alonso in S.W.A.T., the place she was a collection common from 2017 to 2022. She made her tv debut reverse Jimmy Smits within the 2007 CBS drama Cane and has appeared in LOL, Kingdom, Flaked, and London, the place she starred alongside Chris Evans and Jessica Biel.
Esco portrays Captain Jackie Velez within the upcoming RIP. Within the movie, upon discovering thousands and thousands in money in a derelict stash home, belief amongst a staff of Miami cops begins to fray. As exterior forces study in regards to the measurement of the seizure, the whole lot known as into query — together with who they will depend on, in accordance with the logline.
Past performing, Esco wrote, directed, and starred within the 2014 movie Free the Nipple, which was acquired by IFC and Netflix and have become a cultural flashpoint within the dialog round gender equality. She additionally directed two PSA campaigns for the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove.
As she takes on her newest high-profile function in RIP, Esco is trying to additional develop her presence in movie and tv whereas persevering with to develop tasks behind the digital camera.
She’s going to proceed to be repped by Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren & Richman.