Actress Gina Rodriguez poses for a portrait while promoting the film "Filly Brown" during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah January 22, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Purchase Licensing ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As both an actor and a rapper, Gina Rodriguez gives an empowered performance in "Filly Brown," playing a young Los Angeles woman angling for hip-hop stardom as a means to help ...