
Monique Candelaria
Actor · b. 1987 · Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Monique Kathleen Candelaria was born February 11th in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Carla Bernadette Castillo and David Robert Candelaria. Soon after she was born her father joined the army and they moved to Bremerhaven, Germany where her brother, David A. Candelaria, was born. Monique also has 2 half brothers (twins), Ivan and Nathan Del Curto, which are a year younger than her. After her father suffered from a brain aneurysm, making him a 100% disabled veteran, her family returned to New Mexico and her love for the arts began to flourish. As a child around the age of 7 she began singing in weddings and funerals. Realizing that singing is her security blanket she never pursued music as a career but kept it in her life as a passionate hobby. At 15 years old she became a dancer for a local television show in Albuquerque called, "Dance, Dance, Dance it's a Teen Thing". In 2009 she graduated from the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Theatre emphasis in Acting. The first film she was officially cast in was a 1940's New Mexican period piece called Bless me, Ultima (2013)_ directed by 'Carl Franklin'_ in 2010. Her most recognizable role was Lucy, the Denny's waitress from "Breaking Bad" {Live Free or Die (#501} (2012-2013) (TV)_. However, her 1st lead role was in a feature film was The Control Group (2014) starring Brad Dourif. A couple of years later she was cast in her 2nd lead role in the film Cents (2016)_ as the character Angela Baca who struggles with being a single mother raising a mathematical genius.
Movies19
Movie5.4ActionAdventureWe always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
Independence Day: Resurgence
2016 · 6.6K votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaA newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
Shot Caller
2017 · 2.3K votes
Movie6.3ComedyDramaStuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by leaving her desk job in New York and taking a dangerous assignment in Afghanistan. Far from home and completely out of her comfort zone, a culture-shocked Kim befriends an adventurous reporter Tanya Vanderpoel, a stern Colonel, and a charming photojournalist to help her navigate this crazy new world.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016 · 1.1K votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaA couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.
Ideal Home
2018 · 286 votes
Movie5.8ComedyDramaA group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation.
10 Years
2012 · 587 votes
Movie5.6HorrorThrillerOn the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin.
Banshee Chapter
2013 · 324 votes
Movie5.1ActionA former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in which convicts are forced to fight each other to the death as part of a game that's broadcast to the public.
The Condemned 2
2015 · 170 votes
Movie6.0Science FictionA man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
The Wave
2019 · 182 votes
Movie5.5DramaGlen is on a drunken road trip when he plots to commit suicide on his birthday. His decision sends him on a spirited adventure.....
Dark Around the Stars
2013 · 2 votes
Movie4.0HorrorComedyA group of superstar influencers are drawn to a reclusive billionaire's mansion only to find themselves trapped in the lair of an evil vampire. The only way out is to be saved by a famous online gamer and an old school vampire hunter.
Slayers
2022 · 98 votes
Movie5.5ThrillerWesternThe true story of a recently widowered lawman who befriends a boy dying of tuberculosis and a madam of the local brothel while their town is being politically and violently overtaken by a gang of reckless cattlemen from Texas.
Deadman Standing
2018 · 13 votes
Movie6.5Science FictionHorrorAfter status-obsessed teen Sara has sex for the first time, she wakes up the next day nine months pregnant-with an alien.
Snatchers
2019 · 171 votes
Movie4.9DramaComedyDuring a layover in Albuquerque, work colleagues Les and Natalie discover more about each other than they ever thought possible. Anxious and irritable, Les is drawn back into the city by past experiences he can’t forget (even if he doesn't really remember the particulars of his previous drunken adventure). Natalie, refusing to leave his side, follows along as her own secrets are slowly revealed, leaving her feeling both vulnerable and unbound.
Dirty Weekend
2015 · 85 votes
Movie3.8AdventureCrimeWhen a state government shutdown closes parks on 4th of July weekend, Park Ranger Nova Abbey must protect the park from the people, and the people from each other.
Driftless
2020 · 4 votes
Movie5.4DramaA San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to the dysfunctional life of drugs and violence he left behind.
Spoken Word
2009 · 4 votes
Movie6.1FantasyHorrorFive college students wake up in an abandoned, locked-down insane asylum - with no idea how they got there and no means of escape. They discover that they are the subjects of secret experiments, but these tests have awakened something that cannot be explained by science. The group must now fight to escape both the human and supernatural threats if they are to survive and break out of their prison.
The Control Group
2014 · 7 votes
MovieDark comedy about three heroines who finally track down their dimension hopping enemy - now in the form of a womanizing sports reporter.
- MovieDrama
Sammy, an uncommonly smart twelve-year-old girl, uses her gift for mathematics and enlists her frenemies to revamp the school penny drive into a major moneymaking operation.
Cents
2015
MovieFamilyHorrorWhen kids get lost in the New Mexico wilderness. Just like life, we must not lose love and hope or the Devil wins in the end.
The Lost Pueblo
2016
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TV9.0DramaCrimeWalter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
Breaking Bad
2008 · 18K votes
TV7.7Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAfter reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer—he’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.
Roswell, New Mexico
2019 · 449 votes
TV7.1DramaMysteryThe anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
Lovecraft Country
2020 · 803 votes
TV6.9WesternDramaWhen the Los Angeles County’s Sheriff dies, an arcane rule forged back in the Wild West thrusts the most unlikely man into the job: a fifth-generation lawman, more comfortable taking down bad guys than navigating a sea of politics, who won’t rest until justice is served.
Deputy
2020 · 93 votes
TVPeople of the West is a ten-part premium documentary series that reclaims the history of California through Indigenous perspectives. Blending oral histories, tribal archives, expert insight, and cinematic recreations, the series spans from creation stories and pre-contact life through colonization, state-sponsored violence, resistance, and cultural survival. Each episode centers Native voices and lived experience, reframing well-known events—from the mission system and Gold Rush to Alcatraz and modern sovereignty movements—through those who endured them. Visually ambitious and emotionally grounded, the series pairs sweeping landscapes with intimate storytelling to reveal California as it has always been: Native land. Designed to live both on screen and in classrooms, People of the West offers a corrective to dominant narratives while highlighting the resilience, continuity, and contemporary presence of Native nations shaping the state today.