Lidia Porto

Lidia Porto

Lidia Porto is best known for her role as Amara de Escalones in the Epix original series Get Shorty (2017). She was born in Barranquilla, Colombia and raised there and in Houston, Texas. She lives in Los Angeles, California. In 2019, she earned a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Gulf Coast Film and TV Festival and was featured in the article "Scene Stealers of Peak TV" in the Los Angeles Times. In 2016, her performance in the short film Doris (2016) was awarded "Mejor Interpretación Femenina" at the Festival de Cine Social in Toledo, Spain and nominated by the Official Latino Film Festival. Her career has included voiceover acting, writing, directing and producing Interactive Media, developing Applied Theatre Projects in the area of Cancer Prevention, serving on multiple boards for various arts organizations and supporting the development of projects focusing on multicultural life however she can. Her son is actor Mateo Mpinduzi-Mott.

Movies

Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
  • Dec 09, 2022
  • English
Nick Daley is following in his father's footsteps as night watchman at the American Museum of Natural History, so he knows what happens when the sun goes down. But when the maniacal ruler Kahmunrah escapes, it is up to Nick to save the museum once and for all.
Queenpins
  • Dec 01, 2021
  • English
A pair of housewives create a $40 million coupon scam.
Vida
9.0
  • May 05, 2018
  • OST
Two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles who couldn't be more different or distanced from each other are forced to return to their old neighborhood, where they are confronted by the past and surprising truth about their mother’s identity.
Horrible Bosses 2
  • Nov 27, 2014
  • OST
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.
Scary Movie 5
  • Apr 18, 2013
  • OST
Home with their newly-formed family, happy parents Dan and Jody are haunted by sinister, paranormal activities. Determined to expel the insidious force, they install security cameras and discover their family is being stalked by an evil dead demon.