Mishel Prada

[1] Prada was born and raised in Hialeah, a city in the metropolitan Miami area.

[3] While acting in minor roles, she worked as a concierge at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.

[4] Her first lead role was in Fear the Walking Dead: Passage, which received a Creative Arts Emmy Award nomination.

[3] Prada first auditioned for the roles of Lyn and Cruz, but was eventually offered the role of Emma, a Mexican-American woman who moves back to her gentrifying neighborhood in East Los Angeles after the death of her mother.

She is a founding member of a female art collective called Damarosa, which looks at the artistic work of influential women in literature.