Priscilla Quintana

Biography

Priscilla Ann Quintana is an American actress and model. Quintana starred in The CW science fiction series Pandora as Jacqueline "Jax" Zhou. She appears as Ruby Gale in the Peacock comedy thriller Based on a True Story and has the recurring role of Isabella on Freeform's Good Trouble.

Quintana is from Downey, California. Her mother found time to help out pregnant teen girls that had been thrown out of their homes. This, combined with her maternal grandparents' work rehabilitating female drug addicts, formed Quintana's core values of community service. She remembers a Christmas tradition of her family volunteering at soup kitchens, helping feed the homeless.

After spending her early years around the entertainment industry in Southern California, Quintana decided to study the business side of moviemaking. She won a scholarship to film school, helping support herself by waitressing.

 It was during this period she was approached by a modeling agency, and Quintana decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue this new opportunity.

While booking modeling jobs, Quintana also started getting offers for acting roles in commercials. This quickly led to small acting roles in television and films. Among these were a couple of uncredited parts as a Casino Hostess in The Gambler (2014) and as a Foam Girl in Fast & Furious 7 (2015). 

Bigger parts followed, and in 2017 Quintana landed a major supporting role in Polaroid (2019), where she met and started dating her on-screen boyfriend, Keenan Tracey.

In 2018, Quintana was cast as lead Jacqueline "Jax" Zhou, in The CW science fiction series Pandora. In January 2020, it was announced that Quintana would also have a recurring role as Isabella, in Freeform's Good Trouble.

Quintana has said she is of Native American and Castizo Mexican descent, but does not know whether it is proper to call her a person of color due to her light complexion, which allows her to pass for white. 

Quintana has stated she is highly sensitive to roles' cultural sensitivity as a result of her heritage and advocates that more characters be played by performers of their background.