Woman Crush Wednesday: Diane Guerrero Kicks Butt in ‘Doom Patrol’ Season 4

Happy December! It’s officially the holiday season, and we can’t help but feel extra grateful for the gift that is every single amazing actress who is serving up a spectacular and memorable performance in the newest movies and shows streaming now. We’re celebrating one of those laudable ladies with today’s Woman Crush Wednesday, the perfect day for talking about some of the best up-and-comers and veterans in top titles from your favorite platforms. This week, we’re shouting out a wonderful woman who has been putting in dynamic, fascinating, and heartfelt performances for over a decade now, and who shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. So without further ado, give it up for your WCW, the delightful Diane Guerrero!

WHO’S THAT GAL: Diane Guerrero

WHY WE’RE CRUSHING: Guerrero continues to star as Jane in the HBO Max Original title Doom Patrol, which premieres its first part of Season 4 on the platform this Thursday, December 8. The superhero series follows the titular Doom Patrol, a squad made up of traumatized and down-on-their-luck superheroes whose superhuman abilities came at the cost of emotional and physical scars and disfigurement. Together, the team of oddballs and outcasts has found purpose in working together to look into some of the world’s weirdest conundrums and phenomena.

Doom Patrol: Season 4 sees the Doom Patrol unexpectedly traveling into the future, where they come face to face with an unwelcome surprise that forces them to make the ultimate crushing choice between their own happiness and the fate of the world. See Guerrero, April Bowlby, Brendan Fraser, Matt Bomer, Joivan Wade, Michelle Gomez, and Madeline Zima star in this wild ride of a series as soon as the newest episodes drop this week, only on HBO Max.

WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HER BEFORE: Guerrero’s professional onscreen career started strong in 2011, when she appeared in an episode of ABC medical crime dramedy series Body of Proof, as well as in short films Ashley/Amber and Detour, and feature film Festival. She then continued to build up her filmography with work on TV shows like Are We There Yet?, Blue Bloods, and Person of Interest, as well as on films like 2012 comedy short film Saved by the Pole and 2012 horror film Open Vacancy before landing one of the roles for which she is best known, as Maritza Ramos in comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black, starting in 2013.

From there, Guerrero guested in episodes of shows like Taxi Brooklyn and Dora and Friends, as well as earned even more recurring roles in TV series like Superior Donuts, Elena of Avalor, Harvey Girls Forever!, and, notably, Jane the Virgin. She also started accumulating even more work in feature films like 2014 comedy My Man Is a Loser, 2015 drama Peter and John, 2016 musical comedy Happy Yummy Chicken, 2019 animated superhero adventure Justice League vs. the Fatal Five, and 2019 action crime-drama Killerman. Most recently, Guerrero has appeared in episodes of Legends of Tomorrow, The Eric Andre Show, and Woman in the Book, as well as had roles in films like 2020 coming-of-age drama Blast Beat, 2021 mystery Blood Brothers: Civil War, and 2021 animated musical fantasy-comedy Encanto. Clearly, she has already amassed quite a diverse and impressive body of work, and we can’t wait to see all that she continues to pursue and create in the years to come.

WHERE YOU’LL SEE HER AGAIN: Luckily, you don’t have to wait too much longer to see more from Guerrero since the actress already has an exciting project on the horizon. Look out for her as Maria Elena Holly in the upcoming musical biopic Clear Lake, a film that chronicles Buddy Holly and a few other musicians during the beginning stage of major musical and political change that was the 1950s. In addition to Guerrero, Ruairi O’Connor, Colin Hanks, and Nelly are also set to star in the already highly-anticipated film expected to come out within the next year or two.

For even more from Guerrero in the meantime, be sure to follow her now on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook so that you never miss a moment from your world-class WCW!