Isabel Arraiza is an award-winning actress hailing from Puerto Rico. She is set to star in Fox’s highly anticipated anthology series “Accused,” opposite Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy. The sophomore season premieres October 8.
Arraiza has also made her mark on the big screen, starring in John Lee Hancock’s film “The Little Things” opposite Rami Malek and Denzel Washington. Recently, she wrapped the lead opposite Michael Zegen in the indie film, “Notice To Quit,” and can also be seen in the award-winning Spanish language short film, “Renata,” for which she has received the 2024 Puerto Rico European Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Upcoming, Arriaza will star in “Notice to Quit,” from NBA All-Star Gordon Hayward’s film distribution company, releasing theatrically on September 27.
Additional film credits include 2018 Toronto Film Festival official selection feature, “Driven” alongside Jason Sudeikis, Judy Greer and Lee Pace, and Derrick Borte’s “American Dreamer” opposite Jim Gaffigan, which debuted at Los Angeles Film Festival.
Additional television credits include Amazon’s “Outer Range,” USA Network’s “Pearson,” Crackle’s “The Oath,” CBS’s “Elementary” and “Prodigal Son.”
Most recently on stage, Arraiza captivated critics such as The New Yorker as an “excellent Portia” in “The Merchant of Venice,” directed by Arin Arbus and produced by the Shakespeare Theatre Company and Theatre for a New Audience, at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. In January 2025, she will be reprising her role as Portia in “The Merchant of Venice” as the production travels to Edinburgh, Scotland debuting at The Royal Lyceum Theater.
Additional theater credits include “Julius Caesar” at the Public Theater, directed by Oskar Eustis, “Minetti” at the Barbican Centre in London, England and Royal Lyceum Theater in Edinburgh, Scotland, and “Intersections” at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Arraiza obtained her Master of Fine Arts from The Juilliard School, becoming the first Puerto Rican to graduate from the Drama Division since its founding in 1905. Her impressive work within the acting program has also earned her The Laura Pels Award for Best Actor of the Company, Juilliard 2017.
She currently resides in New York City and holds both US and EU citizenship.
She is represented by Gersh Agency, Circle Management +Production and Insight Management in the UK .
Isabel Arraiza is an award-winning actress hailing from Puerto Rico. She is set to star in Fox’s highly anticipated anthology series “Accused,” opposite Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy. The sophomore season premieres October 8.
Arraiza has also made her mark on the big screen, starring in John Lee Hancock’s film “The Little Things” opposite Rami Malek and Denzel Washington. Recently, she wrapped the lead opposite Michael Zegen in the indie film, “Notice To Quit,” and can also be seen in the award-winning Spanish language short film, “Renata,” for which she has received the 2024 Puerto Rico European Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Upcoming, Arriaza will star in “Notice to Quit,” from NBA All-Star Gordon Hayward’s film distribution company, releasing theatrically on September 27.
Additional film credits include 2018 Toronto Film Festival official selection feature, “Driven” alongside Jason Sudeikis, Judy Greer and Lee Pace, and Derrick Borte’s “American Dreamer” opposite Jim Gaffigan, which debuted at Los Angeles Film Festival.
Additional television credits include Amazon’s “Outer Range,” USA Network’s “Pearson,” Crackle’s “The Oath,” CBS’s “Elementary” and “Prodigal Son.”
Most recently on stage, Arraiza captivated critics such as The New Yorker as an “excellent Portia” in “The Merchant of Venice,” directed by Arin Arbus and produced by the Shakespeare Theatre Company and Theatre for a New Audience, at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. In January 2025, she will be reprising her role as Portia in “The Merchant of Venice” as the production travels to Edinburgh, Scotland debuting at The Royal Lyceum Theater.
Additional theater credits include “Julius Caesar” at the Public Theater, directed by Oskar Eustis, “Minetti” at the Barbican Centre in London, England and Royal Lyceum Theater in Edinburgh, Scotland, and “Intersections” at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Arraiza obtained her Master of Fine Arts from The Juilliard School, becoming the first Puerto Rican to graduate from the Drama Division since its founding in 1905. Her impressive work within the acting program has also earned her The Laura Pels Award for Best Actor of the Company, Juilliard 2017.
She currently resides in New York City and holds both US and EU citizenship.
She is represented by Gersh Agency, Circle Management +Production and Insight Management in the UK .