Sandy Idalia Valles
Sandy Idalia Valles
Sandy Idalia Valles (born April 25, 1993) is a TV actress. She is famous for playing Isabella Vargas in the USA Network drama Queen of the South.
Education
Valles studied at the Humphreys School of Musical Theatre at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. She moved to Los Angeles, California shortly after high school to pursue a career in acting.[15]
Career
In an interview with Houstonia (magazine), Valles told about audition process for Queen of the South:When you think of your BIG goal, sometimes you start feeling overwhelmed. Why? Because big goals don’t get achieved right away. Instead, you need to create mini goals to help excite you along the way. This way you can be more goal-orientated and build a habit of being more effective.
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Plus, celebrating is always super fun.
Maybe you break your goal down to 10 small-sized goals with tasks that get you on track to achieve them.
For each of the 10 goals you can add a small celebration.
Maybe a glass of champagne for one or a dessert with a sparkler on top for another.
Don’t forget to check out some of our motivational quotes about success in a later section.
This goes back to the positive environment point: You need to be around others who are just as ambitious as you.
American entrepreneur John Rohn once said, “You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with it.”
And whether or not that’s true is debatable, the reality is being around the right kind of people can only help you grow.
If you’re surrounded by those who love your ambition, you’ll be more ambitious and achieve more.
If you’re surrounded by loved ones who tell you your goals are stupid and tell you to change them, you need to avoid them.
Be around those who help you feel comfortable being the ambitious, go-getter you are, so you can become the successful person you’re meant to be.
I truly believe that every [show] that I was wrong for in the last four years was because this is specifically a role for me.
I immediately connected with Isabella.
I empathized with her because she is going through so much pain.
I have never experienced the pain she is going through with her family, but just imagining not having a great family like mine, it made me want to take care of Isabella.
I remember my agent calling me asking if I wanted to go to Dallas for an audition.
I said f*ck —I couldn’t afford a plane ticket at the time, but I made it work with my mother’s help. I arrived at the audition room in Dallas that flooded with pre-teens. I thought I was definitely not getting the role. Although I was a bit confused with what was going on, I decided to just have a blast with it.[5]
About two months later, after I had completely forgotten about it, I get a call from my agent, and I was told I made the producer rounds.
They were gonna ask me to come and audition one more time.
About 10 minutes later, I get another call from my agent saying, “They saw the audition tape again, and they don’t care.
They chose you.
You start filming in the next two days.”[5]
She made her feature film debut in the 2016 horror film Recovery.[1]
Before she made her USA debut, Valles graduated from Pasadena Memorial High School and spent more than 12 years working on her actress armor at Theatre Under The Stars.[5]
Personal Life
She has a younger brother.[1]
In 2018, Valles changed her name Sally for Idalia.
In an interview with Houstonia (magazine), she said:
I knew it’ll be confusing for the first couple months because everyone knows me as Sandy—even for Queen of The South.
Idalia is my middle name.
When I first started acting in L.A. I wanted to change my name to Idalia, but my manager and agent at the time didn’t want me to.
I was told Idalia was “too confusing.”
That with a simple name like Sandy you could be white; you could be anything.
I listened to them.
Now years later, I realize that was a big mistake.
I am sticking to my core.
If you can’t pronounce my name, or you don’t get it, tell me.
I am here to teach you.[5]
As of June 2020, Valles is dating Haider Ali, a Los Angeles-based composer, songwriter and musician.[7] When you think of your BIG goal, sometimes you start feeling overwhelmed. Why? Because big goals don’t get achieved right away. Instead, you need to create mini goals to help excite you along the way. This way you can be more goal-orientated and build a habit of being more effective.
Celebrating your small wins will help you stay motivated through your journey.
Plus, celebrating is always super fun.
Maybe you break your goal down to 10 small-sized goals with tasks that get you on track to achieve them.
For each of the 10 goals you can add a small celebration.
Maybe a glass of champagne for one or a dessert with a sparkler on top for another.
Don’t forget to check out some of our motivational quotes about success in a later section.
This goes back to the positive environment point: You need to be around others who are just as ambitious as you.
American entrepreneur John Rohn once said, “You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with it.”
And whether or not that’s true is debatable, the reality is being around the right kind of people can only help you grow.
If you’re surrounded by those who love your ambition, you’ll be more ambitious and achieve more.
If you’re surrounded by loved ones who tell you your goals are stupid and tell you to change them, you need to avoid them.
Be around those who help you feel comfortable being the ambitious, go-getter you are, so you can become the successful person you’re meant to be.