Eileen Del Valle

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Summary

Elaine Del Valle, also credited as Eileen Del Valle, is an actor, writer, director, producer, and casting director known for Dora the Explorer, The Sopranos, and her autobiographical Brownsville Bred. Her work often draws on her Puerto Rican family and Brownsville upbringing, with recurring stories about women, family, hardship, and resilience. She has said she wants to create female-led stories featuring people of color and marginalized voices, and that she began writing after finding few roles that reflected her Latina experience. No public record of partisan campaigning or political affiliations is on record.