Miami, FloridaSAG-AFTRA

BellaValdes

Cha Cha in FX's The Shards

Bella Valdes looks directly into the camera, arms raised, dark curls loose, in a leopard-print top against sunlit downtown Miami architecture.

Photography: Helio Media

Black-and-white street shot: Bella Valdes mid-stride in downtown Miami, bag over her shoulder.Bella Valdes leaning against a white column under a canopy walkway in downtown Miami.Close portrait of Bella Valdes, eyes closed, curls falling across her face in soft light.

The one-line version

Bella Valdes is a Cuban-American actor based in Miami. She plays Cha Cha in The Shards, the FX series based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel, and has guest-starred on NBC's Law & Order. On stage: Victoria in American Psycho in Houston. NYU Tisch, BFA Drama, 2025.

More reels

Bella Valdes seated on stone courthouse steps in white trousers and a leopard-print top, elbows on knees, looking into the camera.
Photography: Helio Media

Selected Credits

Screen

  1. The ShardsCha ChaRecurring · FX · 2026
  2. Law & OrderGuest StarNBC

Stage

  1. American PsychoVictoriaHouston · dir. Joe Calarco
  2. Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812Marya D.NYU Tisch: New Studio on Broadway
  3. A Chorus LineCassieNYU Tisch: New Studio on Broadway

TrainingNYU Tisch School of the Arts — BFA Drama, minor in Film Production, 2025. New Studio on Broadway. Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Commedia dell'Arte, Florence.

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She Also
Makes Records

The range doesn't stop at the frame line. Bella writes and releases original music, choreographs her own videos, and produces the work herself.

Film still from the Play Pretend music video: Bella Valdes in soft pink light holding a pom-pom pen, gaze off camera, in a teenage bedroom set.
Play Pretend — music video still
Bella Valdes in studio headphones on a white cyclorama, mid recording session, seen from above.
In session

What's Next

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