As All My Children’s network run on ABC came to an end, LaRue returned as Dr. Maria Santos Grey as a guest star throughout July and September 2011. She portrayed Agent Tanya Mays in the Criminal Minds episode “Final Shot” from the year 2013.
On January 5, 2010, LaRue temporarily returned to the role of Maria for the 40th anniversary of All My Children.
In the television sitcom George Lopez in 2005, LaRue played Linda Lorenzo, George Lopez’s “Long Lost” sister. LaRue started playing Natalia Boa Vista on CSI: Miami in the fall of 2005. The mole in the lab who was informed by the FBI was revealed to be Natalia Boa Vista, played by Eva, towards the conclusion of season four. LaRue started working as a cast member full-time in season five.
From 1991 to 1992, LaRue served as Candid Camera’s co-host and announcer. On All My Children from 1993 to 1997 and again from 2002 to 2005, LaRue played Dr. Maria Santos Grey. She was one half of the power duo Edmund and Maria from All My Children there. For her work on All My Children, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of “Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.”
The song “Dance Again with You,” which served as the background music for the scene of lovers following the third marriage of the fictional characters Edmund and Maria in June 2003, earned her a nomination in the category of “Outstanding Original Song” in 2004.
LaRue was a teenage beauty queen before she started acting at the age of six. At the state competition held in Irvine, California, she was awarded the Danfranc Productions Miss California Empire 1984 title. Eva LaRue graduated from Norco High School in 1985, and shortly after that, she began modeling, initially for the Judith Fontaine Agency and later for Frederick’s of Hollywood.
