Jacqueline Danell Obradors (born October 6, 1966)^[1] is an American actress. She has appeared in films such as Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999), Tortilla Soup (2001), A Man Apart (2003) and Unstoppable (2004).^[2] She is also the voice of Audrey Rocio Ramirez in Atlantis: The Lost Empire. On television, Obradors is known for her role as Detective Rita Ortiz in the ABC crime drama series NYPD Blue (2001–2005).

Obradors was born in the San Fernando Valley, the daughter of Argentine immigrants Angie, a church worker, and Albert Obradors, an office cleaning business owner. Before becoming an actress, Jacqueline was a cashier at Hughes Market in Canoga Park, California.^[3]

Obradors began her career with starring in the action films Red Sun Rising (1994) and Soldier Boyz (1995). On television, she guest-starred on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Diagnosis: Murder, Murder, She Wrote and The John Larroquette Show. She appeared in the Problem Child 3: Junior in Love (1995), a made-for-television movie and the third and final installment of the Problem Child trilogy. In 1998, she co-starred in the box-office hit action-adventure comedy film, Six Days, Seven Nights. The following year, she appeared in the comedy film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. In 2000, she was a regular cast member in the short-lived sitcom, Battery Park.

In 2001, Obradors played the leading role in the comedy-drama film, Tortilla Soup. The film received positive reviews from critics.^[4] She did voice over work in the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and its sequel, Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003), and co-starred in the action films A Man Apart (2003) playing Stacy Vetter, the murdered wife of Vin Diesel's character DEA Agent Sean Vetter, and Unstoppable (2004). She appeared in one episode of George Lopez as Angie's sister, Gloria. Also in 2001, she moved to television for the regular role of detective Rita Ortiz in the ABC police drama series, NYPD Blue. She stayed in the show to series finale that aired in 2005. Later in 2005, she took the series regular role on the NBC sitcom, Freddie as Sofia, Freddie's sister.^[5] The series was canceled after one season in 2006.

Obradors took a break after Freddie. In 2009, she appeared in the crime film Crossing Over starring Harrison Ford and the following year had a recurring role of Paloma Reynosa in the CBS series, NCIS. She guest-starred on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Franklin & Bash, Grimm, Castle and Lucifer. She starred in the original pilot for the FX crime drama series, Mayans M.C. as a matriarch of the Reyes family and EZ’s mother, but was cut-off during the creative reasons.^[6] She had a recurring roles on the TV Land sitcom Lopez in 2016, the Amazon Studios crime drama Bosch |(2019-21), and the Freeform mystery thriller The Watchful Eye in 2023.^[7] She appeared in the romantic comedy film Palm Springs in 2020, and in 2023 co-starred in the Amazon Prime Video miniseries Daisy Jones & the Six.^[8]