Biography
Rochelle Maria Muzquiz is an actor, screenwriter and filmmaker in Los Angeles. She is known for playing smart and quirky characters on film.
An identical twin originally from Plano, Texas, Rochelle was born into a musical family. Her father is the principal percussionist for the Dallas Winds and a Latin percussion specialist, while her mother is a retired music teacher and elementary school principal.
As a child, Rochelle's artistic family instilled in her a love of theater and music. She grew up performing in plays, choirs, and playing percussion in the school band. Following in her twin sister's footsteps, she eventually taught herself guitar and songwriting. After moving to Portland, Oregon, she decided to pursue acting professionally in 2013, training at The Actor's Lab with coach Kristina Haddad.
Rochelle's career recently picked up momentum with her role as Deputy Miller in Jason Rising: A Friday the 13th Fan Film (2021), which garnered over 700,000 views on YouTube from dedicated fans of the franchise. Soon after, she was cast as Mel in Somebody I Used to Know (2023), playing a goofy married couple with Academy Award-nominated Haley Joel Osment and acting opposite Alison Brie.
Aside from her latest credits, Rochelle loves to create original work with collaborators such as Actress/Writer Casey Pfeifer, with whom she co-created the DIY mockumentary Half-Quaked (2018). Rochelle stars as an anxious journalist in this highly-improvised comedy about the impending Pacific Northwest earthquake that won best comedy at the Oregon Independent Film Festival in 2019.
With her writing partner Greg Kerr, Rochelle writes comedy and sci-fi TV scripts and pilots. And with her twin sister Renée Muzquiz, she's written serious and comedic music, performed in bands, written scripts, and chipped away at their amorphous but hilarious pet project, "Twin Empire."
Whether she's playing a role or writing a script, Rochelle is drawn to material that is clever, funny, empowering and/or challenges the status quo. Her scripts explore themes of work/life personas, self help and unconventional relationships. She believes that diverse representation in film and media is crucial to creating a more compassionate world.
Rochelle has a B.A. with a focus in visual arts, women's studies and business from University of North Texas and is a member of SAG-AFTRA.
