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Ana Alicia (born December 12, 1956) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as scheming heiress Melissa Agretti on the long-running primetime soap opera Falcon Crest.
She was born as Ana Alicia Ortiz in Mexico City to a clothing manufacturing executive mother and a father who worked in business. Her family moved to El Paso, Texas when she was a child. Upon graduating high school in 1973, Ortiz earned a scholarship to Wellesley College, but eventually left, instead pursuing her bachelor's degree in drama at the University of Texas at El Paso to be closer to her mother and siblings. Her first professional role under an AEA contract was as one of the Pigeon Sisters in a production of "The Odd Couple" starring Bob Denver at The Adobe Horseshoe Dinner Theater in El Paso.[citation needed]
After earning her degree in 1977, Ortiz moved to Los Angeles and started auditioning for roles in various productions. She won the part of Alicia Nieves on Ryan's Hope, a daytime soap opera, moving to New York City for taping. After fifteen months on the show, Ortiz moved back to Los Angeles part-time and kept auditioning while attending law school at Southwestern University at night back in Texas.[citation needed] Eventually, her acting opportunities suffered and she decided to pursue acting full-time.
They call holidays an option for a reason
I heard you're coming back to life just for the fourth
I've been catching all your ghosts for every season
I pray to god you won't come back here anymore
do you pray with him, too?
They should deliver all my blessings
in small brown paper handbags near the porch
I wished I'd known that you were bleeding while I sat
and watched you reading with the lord
I read with him, too
Cause when you look at me
I'll be digesting your legs
cause I can hardly see
what's in front of me these days
and those days, too.
I've got to take what I'm making
and make into something
I've got to take what I'm making
and make into something
for you
I've got to break what I'm making
and turn it into nothing
I've got to break what I'm making
and turn it into nothing
for you