Dasany Kristal Gonzalez’s personal life
Dasany Kristal Gonzalez is the daughter of Dascha Polanco. We do not have any information about her early life and education. She loves to live a private life and is inactive on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Dasany Kristal Gonzalez is famous for being the daughter of a Dominican American actress. Here, we will discuss her mother’s successful career.
Dasany Kristal Gonzalez’s mother Dascha Polanco
Dascha Polanco is a Dominican American actress who has a net worth of $5 million. Dascha Polanco is best known for playing the role of Dayanara Diaz on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. Polanco won an ALMA Award in 2014 and a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2015 for Orange Is the New Black. She has also had notable roles on the programs The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story and Russian Doll. Additionally, Polanco has been in several films, including The Perfect Match, In the Heights, and the animated comedy DC League of Super-Pets.Following her college graduation, Polanco entered the healthcare industry intending to become a nurse. While studying in the field, she worked in administration at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Eventually, Polanco decided she wanted to pursue an acting career instead and enrolled herself at BIH Studios. She went on to sign with the talent agency Shirley Grant Management.
Polanco made her acting debut on television in 2011 in an episode of the CBS police procedural series Unforgettable. The next year, she appeared in an episode of another CBS police procedural series, NYC 22. Polanco subsequently had her breakthrough role in 2013 when she began playing Dayanara Daya Diaz, a Puerto Rican inmate, on the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. Following the show’s first two seasons, in which she appeared in a recurring capacity, Polanco became part of the main cast for the remaining five seasons through 2019. She was joined in the large ensemble cast by Taylor Schilling Laura Prepon Kate Mulgrew, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne, Nick Sandow, and Taryn Manning, among many others. For her work on Orange is the New Black Polanco shared two SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series with her cast mates. Polanco first appeared on the big screen in the 2013 Christian drama Gimme Shelter, starring Vanessa Hudgens as a pregnant homeless teenager.
The year after this, she appeared in the dramedy The Cobbler, starring Adam Sandler, Method Man, Dustin Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, and Melonie Diaz. In 2015, Polanco acted opposite Jennifer Lawrence in the biographical film Joy, in which Lawrence portrays millionaire entrepreneur and Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano. Next, Polanco co-starred alongside Terrence J, Donald Faison, Cassie Ventura, Paula Patton, and Lauren London in the romcom The Perfect Match. In 2019, Polanco played a nurse in Martin Scorsese’s epic biographical crime film The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci.
