Alanna Noëlle Ubach (born October 3 1975) is an American actress.
Ubach (pronounced You-bock) was born in Downey, California, the daughter of Sidna and Rodolfo Ubach and the sister of actress Athena Ubach. She is of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent.
Ubach began her career at the age of four, playing alongside Henry Darrow in a small independent film, "Los Alvarez". At 17, she made a guest appearance on the television series The Torkelsons. She continued with television guest appearances and also appeared in the supporting cast of the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. In 1993, she became co-star of the children's television program Beakman's World and also played the role as Gloria in the movie Airborne. One of her first roles in a feature film was that of lesbian Noreen in the film The Brady Bunch Movie.
Since then, she has appeared in a multi-episode 1996 guest spot on the show Party of Five, a performance in the independent film Clockwatchers, and has guest starred in over 25 television shows and a number of independent pictures. In mainstream film, she has played Serena, best friend to Elle Woods in the film Legally Blonde, and the 2003 sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde. By 2004, she appeared in over 46 films, including Meet the Fockers as Isabel and Waiting.... She wrote and directed "A Mi Amor Mi Dulce," a short that showed in numerous festivals around the world.
She is the voice of Manny Rivera in Nickelodeon's El Tigre. She is also working on a coffee table book, a one woman show, and a Warner Bros. television pilot with Tom Werner, Eric Gold, and Jimmy Miller.
She is in the Velcro Troupe with Skyler Stone and Zach Johnson. It is a popular sketch troupe with a viral following. Their short film Quentin Tarantino's Little Miss Squirtgun was nominated for Best Movie Spoof at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards.
She is currently working on the new ABC show "Eli Stone", Lewis Black's Comedy Central show "The Root of all Evil", Legs on Sale's Mr. Anvil (director of music video), "Everything Up Close Looks Messy", a one-woman she has written and will be starring in - (New York, 2008).
Half Mexican and half Puerto Rican.
Has a tattoo on her back that is half of a heart.
Speaks Spanish and also knows French.
Sister Athena Ubach had a small part in Clockwatchers (1997).
Younger sister of Athena Ubach.
Read for Meg Cabot's "Haunted" CD.
Sister-in-law of Sean Kanan.
Writing partner is Jessica Cauffiel, who plays best friend Margot in Legally Blonde (2001). Jessica had already been cast as Margot and was to read with several actresses vying for the part of Serena. When Alanna walked into the audition, she pulled Jessica aside and said dryly, "Kid, help me out here. I've gotta make rent." Jessica laughed and said, "Okay. I'll stand up and do the scene with you. Just mirror all of my movements." She did: and Margot and Serena were born.
The producers of Meet the Fockers (2004) actually had Alanna, 28, put a fat cushions on and "grey" her hair so she could play a 40-year-old Cuban maid. They saw plenty of actual Cuban women for the role, but director Jay Roach found the young, spunky actress to be the best. She plays much younger, but really played it down for this role.
Has a bulldog named "Otis Redding".
She and Michelle Matthews (I) both attended the private academy Lycée Français in Los Angeles.
