Ruth Livier is a Mexican-American actress best known for her role as Yolanda Santiago on the Showtime television series Resurrection Boulevard. Ruth recurred in Beverly Hills, 90210 playing Joy Taylor, Kelly's (Jenny Garth) half-sister. She also had a recurring roles in Soldier of Fortune, Inc., playing the antagonist, Katrina Herrera, and in Weird Science, playing Michael Manasseri's love interest. Other guest starring roles include: Switched at Birth, Haunted (opposite Matthew Fox), NYPD Blue, The Ghost Whisperer, Becker (opposite Ted Danson), and The Pretender.
Her film work includes Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell, Michael Stevens' Bad City Blues, One Last Flight, Game of Life, Ranchero (opposite Danny Trejo) and the Fwak! animated feature Los Campeones de la Lucha Libre. Other voice-over work includes: the 2012 Grammy Award-nominated audio drama The Mark of Zorro, where she played the starring role of Lolita Pulido opposite Val Kilmer as Zorro, several voices on Fox TV's King of the Hill and la quinceañera on Playhouse Disney's Handy Manny. She has also voiced for several video games, including the role of Inspector Carmelita Fox in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, as well as various roles in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Saints Row: The Third, and Dead Rising 3,.