Bev Land: Filmmaker and Husband of Actress Dania Ramirez

Bev Land is an American filmmaker and author. He wrote and directed the independent feature Lycan. He is married to actress Dania Ramirez. His IMDb biography is credited to him by name. That makes it a first-party account, not an aggregator's summary. Dania Ramirez's Wikipedia entry independently records the marriage, his earlier marriage, and her role as stepmother to his son. This article uses those two sources and does not repeat the net worth figure that other pages supply without attribution.

Quick Profile

Detail

Information

Name used professionally

Bev Land

Full name given by Wikipedia

John Beverly "Bev" Land

Birth name given by IMDb

John Beverly Amos Land

Born in

Columbus, Georgia

Occupation

Director, screenwriter, producer, author

First known work

Short film What Are The Odds, 2002

Feature debut

Lycan, 2017

Current wife

Dania Ramirez, actress

Married

February 16, 2013

First wife

Sharon Leal, actress, married 2001 to 2007

Children

Three

Net worth

Not documented

Every row comes from his own IMDb biography or from Dania Ramirez's Wikipedia entry.

How did he start making films?

His account begins before he left school. He began writing, directing and editing at the age of 16. He did that work in his family's basement. He wrote that nobody could see him working there.

That detail is his own, and it explains the private start. At 18 he made a decision that shaped everything after it. Instead of joining the family business, he moved to Los Angeles. He moved to follow filmmaking rather than to inherit a trade.

He then studied at UCLA film school. UCLA film school is the only educational institution he names. Other pages describe advanced studies in film and visual arts. That is a vaguer restatement of the same fact, not an addition to it.

Who did he train under?

Three working relationships are named in his biography. He started under Nicole Beattie on the HBO series Deadwood. He then worked under Don Roos. His account says he learned the inside of a full feature there.

A third relationship was a shadowing placement. He shadowed Mike Listo on the series Boston Public. He spent close to three years in that role. That period falls between his short film work and his feature.

Working as a shadow is common in film, and it is rarely recorded. He recorded it himself, which makes it usable.

What was his first film?

His first credited film is a short called What Are The Odds. It was written and directed by him, and it came out in 2002. It starred Jon Abrahams, Steven R Schrippa and Sharon Leal. That third name is worth noting, because it was his first wife.

Sharon Leal is an actress with her own filmography. The short screened at many independent festivals. Three named festivals were New York International Film Festival. The others were the Toronto Film Festival and Telluride.

The short went on to win more than thirteen awards. One of them was Best Short Film. That award was at the New York Independent Film Festival. A first short film winning thirteen awards is a documented record.

It also predates everything else his competitors pages describe.

What was his feature debut?

His first feature film was Lycan. That film starred Dania Ramirez in the lead. It also starred Vanessa Angel and Gail O'Grady. Dania Ramirez's own entry lists Lycan in her filmography.

It dates the film to 2017 and names her role as Isabella Cruz. So the film is confirmed by two separate entries. His biography states that the film can be watched on major platforms. Between the short film in 2002 and Lycan there is a long gap.

That gap is documented as his shadowing work and short-form output. It is not a claim of continuous commercial production.

What other work has he made?

His biography names one further piece explicitly. He made a parody video titled Ass and Titties. It starred Mena Suvari and Keith Robinson. Dania Ramirez also appeared in it.

His account says the video caused a viral, controversial stir. That is the only such project his own biography names. Some competitor pages also list a title called Social Misfits. That title does not appear in his IMDb biography.

It is not repeated here, because no source for it was found.

Who is he married to?

Dania Ramirez is a Dominican-American actress. She was born on November 8, 1979, in Santo Domingo. She studied at Montclair State University. Her listed years as active begin in 1997.

She is best known for Heroes and for Devious Maids. Dania Ramirez's entry records her marriage to Bev Land. It gives the full name as John Beverly "Bev" Land. Her entry dates the marriage to February 16, 2013.

It records that they married on a beach in Punta Cana. That is in the Dominican Republic, where she was born. His own biography gives the same date for the marriage. Two sources agree, independently, on the day.

They also agree that the marriage began in 2013.

What was his earlier marriage?

He was previously married to Sharon Leal. His biography records that marriage as running from 2001 to 2007. It records the marriage as ending in divorce. Sharon Leal is also an actress.

Dania Ramirez's Wikipedia entry names her as his previous wife. That entry also records her as a stepmother to his son. So the earlier marriage is confirmed by both entries. Most competing pages do not name Sharon Leal at all.

They describe a previous relationship without naming it. Naming her is simply following the sources.

What children do they have?

Child

Name given

Born

Mother

First son

Kai Miles Land

September 13, 2001

Sharon Leal

Twins, son

John Aether Ramirez Land

December 17, 2013

Dania Ramirez

Twins, daughter

Gaia Jissel Ramirez Land

December 17, 2013

Dania Ramirez

Dania Ramirez's entry confirms the twins in general terms. It records that she announced a twin pregnancy in July 2013. It records that she gave birth to boy-girl twins that December. The specific names come from his IMDb biography.

Two sources agree on the twins and their year.

What does he say about his family background?

His biography names both of his grandparents. He gives his grandfather as John Beverly Amos. He states that his grandfather founded AFLAC. No independent source for that claim was found.

That claim is therefore reported here as his statement. He gives his grandmother as Elena Amos. He records that she is of Cuban descent. He also records that she was known as a Latin American businesswoman.

His birth name includes Amos, which is consistent with that line. His biography gives his birthplace as Columbus, Georgia. He records that he was born there rather than claiming a date. He is also recorded as writing a young adult novel.

His biography describes that novel as a current project.

What does Dania Ramirez's career record show?

Year

Title

Role

Type

2002

25th Hour

Daphne

Film

2006

X-Men: The Last Stand

Callisto

Film

2007

Illegal Tender

Ana

Film

2008

Ball Don't Lie

Carmen

Film

2013

N.Y.C. Underground

Jessica

Video

2015

Mojave

Detective Beaumont

Film

2017

Lycan

Isabella Cruz

Film

2018

Off the Menu

Javiera Torres

Film

2019

Jumanji: The Next Level

NPC Seductress Flame

Film

That table is taken from her Wikipedia entry. Lycan sits in the middle of it, and it is the film she starred in for her husband. She also works extensively in television. Her early television work included a recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That role came in 2003, in the seventh season of that series.

She later had a main role on the horror series Devious Maids. She played a camp counsellor on the series Dead of Summer. That was a main role in 2016. Her best-known television credit is the series Heroes.

She played a main role in You across its first season. She also had a recurring role in the reboot of Gossip Girl. Two awards for that television work are recorded by name. She was nominated at the ALMA Awards in 2008.

She was nominated at the Imagen Awards in 2014. She won a NAMIC Vision Award in 2016 for Devious Maids.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Bev Land? Bev Land is an American filmmaker and author. His IMDb biography, credited to him by name, records two films. He wrote and directed the short What Are The Odds in 2002. He later wrote and directed the feature Lycan. He is married to actress Dania Ramirez.

Who is Bev Land married to? Dania Ramirez, an actress known for Heroes and Devious Maids. Dania Ramirez's Wikipedia entry records her marriage to director John Beverly "Bev" Land. It dates the marriage to February 16, 2013, on a beach in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

What films has Bev Land made?

His first film was the short What Are The Odds, written and directed by him in 2002. It won more than thirteen awards and played at festivals including Toronto and Telluride. His feature debut was Lycan in 2017, starring Dania Ramirez.

How many children does Bev Land have? His IMDb biography records three children. He had a son, Kai Miles Land, born September 13, 2001, with his first wife Sharon Leal. He and Dania Ramirez had twins, John Aether Ramirez Land and Gaia Jissel Ramirez Land, born December 17, 2013.

Who was Bev Land's first wife? Sharon Leal, an actress. His IMDb biography records that marriage as running from 2001 to 2007. Dania Ramirez's Wikipedia entry names Sharon Leal as his previous wife. It also records Ramirez as a stepmother to his son Kai Miles Land.

What is Bev Land's net worth? That is not documented. No source reviewed gives a figure for his finances. Some biography pages publish an estimated range without stating where the estimate comes from. This article does not repeat that Bev Land figure.

Conclusion

This subject has better sourcing than most pages targeting his name suggest.

His own IMDb biography is credited to him by name.

That makes it a first-party account, and it is unusually specific.

It records his first short film at 16 and his move at 18.

It names UCLA film school and three working relationships.

It names his first wife by name and gives both marriage dates.

It names all three children and both birth dates.

Dania Ramirez's Wikipedia entry confirms the marriage independently.

It also confirms Sharon Leal, the earlier marriage and the stepson relationship.

What is genuinely undocumented is equally clear.

Pages searching Bev Land give a birth date, but no strong source does.

His net worth is given by aggregator pages without attribution.

His grandfather's claimed AFLAC role has no independent source.

Where two independent entries agree, this article states the fact.

Where one uncited page supplies a figure, this article does not repeat it.

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