A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Mexico City, Mexico
Maria Jose De La Cruz is an actress born in Mexico City to Spanish and Mexican parents, making her upbringing a mixture between the colors and passions of both cultures and falling in love with expression. She discovered the performing arts at a young age, dancing, writing, and then acting. Having a background in ballet, hip-hop, jazz, contemporary dance, and flamenco as well as a black belt in Tae Kwan, Maria Jose decided to move to Los Angeles to further pursue her acting career and recently graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she also had the opportunity to write and perform an autobiographical piece.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.