Charissa Cree Chamorro (born April 26, 1977 in Baytown, Texas) is an American television actress of Chilean heritage, and Ph.D. candidate in Clinical Psychology. She is best known for her leading roles on such soap operas as Guiding Light as Tory Granger (2001–2002) and One Life to Live as Sophia Pellegrino (1999–2001), for which she won the 2001 OLTL Soap Central Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Newcomer. She starred in the feature film Hysterical Psycho and had guest starring roles on Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.