伊丽莎白·佩尼亚（Elizabeth Peña，1961 年 9 月 23 日 - 2014 年 10 月 14 日）是一位美国女演员，也是戏剧公司联合创始人的女儿，她自己也积累了电视导演的经验。佩尼亚出生于新泽西州伊丽莎白，是艺术行政人员和制片人埃斯特拉·玛格丽塔（原名托拉克）和古巴出生的演员、作家和导演马里奥·佩尼亚的女儿，他们共同创立了拉丁美洲剧团。目前尚不清楚佩尼亚是否以她出生的城镇命名。Peña于1977年毕业于纽约表演艺术高中。她的同学包括 Ving Rhames，她后来与她一起出演了 Jacob's Ladder，以及 Esai Morales，她后来与她一起共同出演了 La Bamba。她还是西班牙裔拉丁演员组织的创始成员。

1979年，佩尼亚出演了她的第一部电影《El Super》，这是“一部非常感人而忧郁的喜剧，讲述了一个中下层古巴难民家庭试图适应西班牙哈莱姆区的生活。Peña 再次与电影导演 Leon Ichaso 合作，在他的下一部电影《Crossover Dreams》中与 Ruben Blades 对戏。

Peña 曾出演过 La Bamba、Down and Out in Beverly Hills、Lone Star、Vibes 和 Rush Hour 等电影。2002 年，她出演了 Showtime 的 Resurrection Blvd.，在她执导的剧集“Justicia”中饰演 Tia Bibi Corrades。在接下来的一年，即2003年，她出演并执导了《加西亚兄弟》的一集“It Was Fun While It Lasted”。她还为皮克斯动画电影《超人总动员》中的角色海市蜃楼配音。她客串出演了 Numb3rs 第二季的第 18 集，饰演索尼娅·贝纳维德斯。尽管这位女演员确实会说西班牙语，但她并没有为西班牙语版本配音。

佩尼亚还因出演 1987 年仅持续 13 集的情景喜剧《我嫁给了朵拉》而闻名，饰演该剧标题中的“朵拉”朵拉。在最后一场演出中，演员们打破了悬而未决的怀疑的“第四堵墙”，在镜头前宣布取消并谢幕。

编剧兼导演约翰·塞勒斯（John Sayles）制作了广受好评但短命的电视连续剧《香农的交易》（Shannon's Deal，1989-1991），由佩尼亚（Peña）和剧集主演杰米·谢里丹（Jamey Sheridan）共同主演。1996年，塞勒斯编剧并执导了悬疑电影《孤星》，并再次让她担任联合主演。

Peña 于 2014 年 10 月 14 日在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的 Cedars-Sinai 医疗中心去世，享年 55 岁。

Elizabeth Peña (September 23, 1961 - October 14, 2014) was an American actress, and the daughter of a theater-company co-founder, who has also compiled experience as a television director in her own right. Peña was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, daughter of Estella Margarita (née Toirac), an arts administrator and producer, and Mario Peña, the Cuban-born actor, writer, and director who jointly founded the Latin American Theatre Ensemble. It is unknown whether Peña was named after the town of her birth. Peña graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts in 1977. Her classmates included Ving Rhames, alongside whom she would later co-star in Jacob's Ladder, and Esai Morales, alongside whom she would later co-star in La Bamba. She is also a founding member of the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors.

In 1979, Peña appeared in her first film, El Super, "an exceptionally moving and melancholy comedy about a family of lower-middle-class Cuban refugees attempting to adjust to life in Spanish Harlem.", New York City. Peña worked once again with film director, Leon Ichaso in his next feature Crossover Dreams opposite Ruben Blades.

Peña has appeared in movies such as La Bamba, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Lone Star, Vibes, and Rush Hour. In 2002, she starred in Showtime's Resurrection Blvd. as Tia Bibi Corrades in the episode "Justicia," which she also directed. During the next year, 2003, she appeared in and directed "It Was Fun While It Lasted," an episode of The Brothers Garcia. She also provided the voice of the character Mirage in Pixar's animated film The Incredibles. She guest starred in the 18th episode of Numb3rs, Season Two, as Sonya Benavides. Although the actress does speak Spanish, she does not dub her own voice for Spanish releases.

Peña is also noted for having starred in I Married Dora, a sitcom that lasted only 13 episodes in 1987, as Dora Calderon, the "Dora" of the show's title. In the final show, the cast broke the "fourth wall" of suspended disbelief by announcing their cancellation on-camera and taking a curtain call.

Writer-director John Sayles produced the critically acclaimed but short-lived television series Shannon's Deal (1989–1991) co-starring Peña alongside series lead Jamey Sheridan. In 1996 Sayles wrote and directed the mystery film Lone Star and again cast her in a co-starring role.

Peña died on October 14, 2014 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California at the age of 55.