Eva LaRue

Intro

Eva LaRue is an actress whose television work includes Dr. Maria Santos in All My Children, Natalia Boa Vista in CSI: Miami and Celeste Rosales in The Young and the Restless. Her official biography also credits Natalia Rogers-Ramirez in General Hospital. These roles connect a career in daytime serial drama with a long-running primetime crime series.

Career snapshot

All My Children established an important strand of LaRue’s screen career through Maria Santos. She later moved into CSI: Miami as Natalia Boa Vista, appearing in the series from 2005 to 2012. The shift placed her in a different dramatic format: a crime-investigation ensemble alongside the continuing relationships and character histories of daytime television.

The entry point

Natalia Boa Vista is the CSI: Miami role named in LaRue’s own career biography. It remains one of her principal screen credits, alongside Maria Santos. For viewers entering through the crime series, her daytime work offers another way to follow the same performer across different production styles and extended character stories.

Screen identity and style

LaRue returned to daytime in 2019 as Celeste Rosales on The Young and the Restless. That performance earned the 2020 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series. The award is specific to guest performance in that drama category; it should not be confused with an award for her earlier work on CSI: Miami.

Collaborations and patterns

Her work also includes television films and projects outside those serial roles. Hallmark’s Home & Family welcomed her to discuss Help for the Holidays and, in a separate 2020 conversation with David A.R. White, Finding Love in Quarantine. These appearances document her participation in both projects and provide a broader picture than the crime and soap-opera credits alone.

Era reflection

LaRue took an executive-producing role on My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story. The two-part Paramount+ documentary concerns the stalking ordeal she and her daughter Kaya experienced, and both discussed it on CBS Saturday Morning in November 2025. It is a personal nonfiction project, distinct from the fictional characters she has played throughout her acting career.

Legacy and rediscovery

The two gallery photographs date from 2009. Manfred Werner photographed LaRue at the Romy television awards in Vienna on April 25. A separate image by Michael Thom for Vanessa Noel shows her at the designer’s New York boutique on July 30. These are public-appearance photographs, not scenes from her television programs, and the individual credits and Creative Commons reuse terms are preserved below.

Selected roles

• All My Children: Dr. Maria Santos — Daytime drama
• CSI: Miami: Natalia Boa Vista — 2005–2012
• The Young and the Restless: Celeste Rosales — Daytime drama
• General Hospital: Natalia Rogers-Ramirez — Daytime drama

A career in pictures

Two distinct 2009 photographs of Eva LaRue in Vienna and New York.

Romy television awards (2009)

Eva LaRue at the awards in Vienna

Manfred Werner photograph, April 25, 2009.

New York boutique visit (2009)

Eva LaRue at Vanessa Noel

Michael Thom for Vanessa Noel, July 30, 2009; Commons upload by Vanessanoel158.

Rewatch notes

• LaRue plays Natalia Boa Vista in CSI: Miami.
• Her 2020 Daytime Emmy recognized Celeste Rosales in The Young and the Restless.
• She is an executive producer of My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story.