Lina Esco

About

Lina Esco (born May 14, 1985) is an American actress, producer, director and activist. She gained recognition in 2007 for portraying Jimmy Smits’ character’s daughter in the CBS television drama Cane. Esco has also performed in films, including London (2005), Kingshighway (2010), LOL (2012), and Free the Nipple (2014). She is also known for portraying SWAT officer Christina “Chris” Alonso in S.W.A.T. and most recently, Captain Jackie Velez in the Netflix hit, The Rip (2026).

Esco was cast in her first television guest star role in 2006, as Angie Watson in the series CSI: NY. In March 2007 Esco joined the cast of the CBS drama Cane. In 2009, she guest starred in an episode of the Drop Dead Diva series with Paula Abdul. Esco played a lingerie model who had been fired for going public about her breast cancer survival story.
In February 2011, Esco was slated to join the cast of Fox’s pilot Exit Strategy. Described as a high octane procedural set in the world of CIA agents who are sent in to “fix” operations gone bad. The cast included Ethan Hawke, Megan Dodds and with Antoine Fuqua directing. Esco was to play Mia, an MIT graduate and computer expert from South Boston. In 2014…