Vanessa Marquez was born on December 21 1968 in Los Angeles County California She decided that she wanted to be an actress after she first saw The Wizard of Oz 1939 when she was only 3 or 4 She made her film debut as Ana Delgado in Stand and Deliver in 1988 In the Nineties Miss Marquez was very much in demand as an actress appearing in such films as Twenty Bucks 1993 Bound by Honor 1993 also known as Blood In Blood Out and Father Hood 1993 On television she guest starred on such shows as Wiseguy Seinfeld Nurses and Melrose Place She appeared in the first three seasons on the hit TV show ER in the role of Nurse Wendy Goldman Vanessa Marquez died on August 30 2018 in South Pasadena California