Andrea Navedo is an American actress. She began her career on the daytime soap operas One Life to Live and Guiding Light, and in later years had several supporting roles on primetime television. In 2014, Navedo began starring as Xiomara "Xo" Villanueva in The CW comedy-drama series, Jane the Virgin.

Navedo, a second-generation New York Puerto Rican, said that she relates to her character on Jane the Virgin, because her mother was a young, single mother like Xiomara.

Navedo was born in The Bronx and graduated from the State University of New York at Old Westbury in 1998 with a BA in Communicative and Creative Arts and a concentration of Theater.

From 1995 to 1997 she played the role of Linda Soto in the ABC daytime soap opera, One Life to Live. In 1999, she joined the cast of CBS soap opera Guiding Light as Theresa Sandoval.

From 2001 to 2004, Navedo had a recurring role on the NBC series, Law & Order, as Detective Ana Cordova, and later guest-starred on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Damages and Blue Bloods. Navedo also has appeared in the number of films such as Double Take, Washington Heights, El Cantante and Remember Me.

Navedo has had recurring roles on How to Make It in America, Golden Boy and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2011 to 2013. In 2014, she was cast in the series regular role Xiomara "Xo" Villanueva, Jane's mother in The CW comedy-drama series, Jane the Virgin. In 2020, she was cast as civil rights activist Carmen Delgado Votaw in the Hulu miniseries Mrs. America.

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