Kristin Lisa Herrera is an American actress. She is of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent and talks fluently both Spanish and English. She was born in Los Angeles, California and has two older brothers, named Ryan and Justin. She attended Hillcrest Christian School in Granada Hills, California.

Kristin, who won West Coast National Tap Champion, spent several years mastering ballet, jazz, and hip-hop dancing. She also enjoys basket ball, surfing, and snowboarding. She played basketball for Hillcrest.

Herrera has a long list of acting credits. She has been acting in commercials since she was six. Her first TV role was in a phone service commercial. At age 11 she played an uncredited guest role on the longest-running AbcDaytime American soap opera, "General Hospital." She followed it up with more guest appearances in such TV shows as Abcs Emmy Award-winning police drama "NYPD Blue" as Eleena, the CW family drama "7th Heaven" as Katie, Lifetime cop/crime drama "The Division" as Aimee Varga, FOX sitcom "The Bernie MacShow" as Sophie, and the hit NBC medical drama "ER" as Frederika.

After returning as a guest in a December 2004 episode of "General Hospital," Herrera snagged her most popular role to date, as Zoey's (played by Jamie Lynn Spears sarcastic roommate, Dana Cruz, who constantly fights with another roommate, Nicole (played by Alexa Nikolas), on Nickelodeon's Emmy Award-nominated live-action sitcom, Zoey 101. She stayed on the show during its first season (2005) and left after her character was accepted by a European student exchange program. Along with the show's cast members, Herrera won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Ensemble Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) in 2006. Kristin is good friends with co-star Jamie Lynn Spearsand learned how to surf with her. She is also friends with Brenda Songand Ashley Tisdale

Herrera subsequently guest-starred in a May 2006 episode of CBS FBI missing persons unit drama, "Without a Trace." In the following year, Herrera began appearing in films. She was cast in Richard LaGravenese-directed crime/drama, starring Hilary Swank "Freedom Writers," which is based on the book “The Freedom Writers Diary” by teacher Erin Gruwell and her students, and in Sean Michael Beyer's thriller, starring Kevin Schmidt and Pamela Noble, "Resurrection Mary" (both in 2007).