Talia Peralta

Talia Nastassja Peralta is an American television personality. She was a contestant on The Challenge: Dynamic Duos, the first season of the reality competition television series The Challenge.

Biography
Peralta was born on 14 November in x|New York City, New York to parents Ernesto and Tiana Peralta, both second-generation Dominican-Americans whose parents had immigrated to New York from rural areas in the Dominican Republic. She grew up in a x|Pentecostal x|Dominican family in the x|Sunset Park neighborhood of x|Brooklyn. Her father worked as a telemarketer, while her mother worked as a hairdresser. Peralta has three younger siblings; her siblings include Alessandra who is a year younger than her, Marco who is three years younger than her, and Genevieve who is six years younger than her.

Peralta attended public schooling in Brooklyn. After completing middle school, she received entrance to x|Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, a performing arts high school in x|Manhattan. She was an active member of the school's musical theatre productions, and after graduating began college at x|Brooklyn College. She went on to graduate with a degree in theatre. After completing her education at Brooklyn College, Peralta began pursuing a career as an actress, singer, and dancer in New York City, while also supporting herself as a waitress.

Dynamic Duos
Peralta became a contestant on The Challenge: Dynamic Duos, the first season of The Challenge. Peralta impressed the alumni enough on the initial obstacle course to be selected as the partner of Markus Black for the duration of the competition. Black and Peralta quickly established themselves as competitive threats after eliminating Alec Taylor and Madison McGillicutty in the episode three elimination challenge, and Peralta became well-known throughout the house for her diva antics and frequent verbal altercations. They became the power couple in episode four, and sent Kennedy Schultz and Sam Jennings into the elimination challenge, intensifying a rivalry between the two duos which began in the previous episode. In episode six, Peralta and Black were eliminated by Anthony Pirozzi and Jennifer Andrews after being sent to the elimination challenge by Schultz and Jennings, narrowly missing out on the final challenge.