42+ Best Photos of Rosie Perez
42+ Best Photos of Rosie Perez. Born of puerto rican descent, perez busted onto the scene in the classic spike lee "joint" do the right thing in 1989. Since then she has fashioned quite the. Trying to guess everyone was just so much fun for me! Rosie perez was born in bushwick, brooklyn, new york city, to lydia perez and ismael serrano, a merchant marine. Her film breakthrough was in spike lee's do the right thing (1989), which she followed with white men can't jump (1992).