Famosos Actores Latinos!
Some of the Hispanic/Latino males and females actors I seen and recognized in countless films I have seen them in. I will also list some of the films that "I" have seen them in. This list will be continually updated as I see more and more Spanish movies...
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- Actress
- Casting Director
- Producer
Julia Vera was born on 23 January 1941 in Laredo, Texas, USA. She is an actress and casting director, known for This Fool (2022), The Old Ways (2020) and Elena of Avalor (2016).1994 Speed
Additional Bus Passenger #7
2001 Blow
Clara Blanca
2002 Real Women Have Curves
Doña Gorgonia
2003 Kingpin (TV Mini-Series)
Delia's mother- El Velorio (2003) ... Delia's mother
2006 The Virgin of Juarez
Arcelia
2007 Dexter (TV Series)
Old Cuban Woman- Waiting to Exhale (2007) ... Old Cuban Woman
2014 Black Jesus (TV Series)
Concerned Wife- Fried Green Tomatoes (2014) ... Concerned Wife
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Bruno Bichir is one of the most talented actors working in current Mexican cinema, theater and television. He comes directly from a family of artists, where all of its five members (his parents and his two older brothers) are as well highly recognized actors and directors. Bruno has worked with some of the most important contemporary filmmakers.1995 Midaq Alley
Abel- Margarita Sanz was born on 20 February 1954 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Midaq Alley (1995), Frida (2002) and The Blue Room (2002).1995 Midaq Alley
Susanita - Actor
- Director
- Producer
Daniel Giménez-Cacho was born on May 15, 1961, in Madrid, Spain. He is a Mexican actor and director, Ariel award winner, who has starred in several Mexican films such as 'Solo con tu pareja' (1991), 'Cronos' (1993), 'Midaq Alley' (1995) and 'Arráncame la Vida' (2008), among others. He is also known for 'Y tu mamá también' (2001), 'La mala educación' (2004) and 'Blancanieves' (2012).1995 Midaq Alley
José Luis- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Durable Mexican-American actor Pepe Serna has appeared in more than 100 feature films and 300 television shows, but is most recognized for his gritty support performances in a variety of motion pictures, including Scarface (1983) as Al Pacino's ill-fated cocaine partner, as well as the western Silverado (1985) with Kevin Costner, the crime yarn The Rookie (1990) starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen, and the drama American Me (1992) starring Edward James Olmos. In a career surpassing five decades, Pepe's characters have played on both sides of the law -- from drug peddlers to sheriffs.
He was born (and raised) in Corpus Christi, Texas on July 23, 1944, the son of a naval base interpreter for Latin American pilots and a hairdresser. His desires to become an actor happened early in life, moving to Hollywood in 1969 to finally pursue his dreams. He didn't have to wait long to find steady Latino work on film and TV.
Making an inauspicious debut in the exploitation film The Student Nurses (1970), Pepe found more "A" quality work after being discovered by producer Hal B. Wallis for the coming-of-age film Tim Belcher starring Richard Thomas and Catherine Burns and the western Shoot Out (1971) starring Gregory Peck. Specializing in urban, streetwise roles, he went on to mix a number of popular films (The New Centurions (1972), The Day of the Locust (1975), Car Wash (1976), A Force of One (1979), Walk Proud (1979), Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Inside Moves (1980), Deal of the Century (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Caddyshack II (1988)) with a slew of popular TV crime dramas such as "Mannix," "Police Story," "Adam-12," "The Rookies," "The Rockford Files," "Baretta," "Kojak," "CHiPs," "Barney Miller," "Scarecrow & Mrs. King," "T.J. Hooker," "Simon & Simon," "Hill Street Blues," "Miami Vice," "Cagney & Lacey" and "Diagnosis Murder." He also played the role of Jennifer Lopez's disapproving father in the one-season crime mystery series Second Chances (1993) and it's equally short-lived sequel Hotel Malibu (1994).
In addition to support roles in such millennium films as Picking Up the Pieces (2000), Exposed (2003), The Black Dahlia (2006), Downsizing (2017), Road to Juarez (2013), Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone (2021), The Margarita Man (2019) and The Planters (2019), as well as the Asian-American movies of writer/director Dave Boyle including Big Dreams Little Tokyo (2006) and White on Rice (2009), Pepe, after a 45-year career, was handed a film lead by Boyle as a sheriff in Man from Reno (2014). He also was given leads in the movies Gino's Wife (2016) and Flavor of Life (2019). As a producer, Pepe's credits include Kill or Be Killed (2015), Aguruphobia (2015), From the Dead (2019) and Going Rogue.
Long married to wife Diane, Pepe is a noted keynote teacher and motivational speaker who tours colleges and universities. His strong sideline as a painter has been met with critical success, having been commissioned quite frequently. His vibrant paintings and one-man stage shows reflect a serious return to his Mexican roots and was the subject of the 2015 short documentary "Life Is Art."1975 The Deadly Tower (TV Movie)
Mano
1976 Car Wash
Chuco
1979 The Jerk
Punk #1
1979 The Streets of L.A. (TV Movie)
Sergeant Castro
1979 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (TV Series)
Additional Voices (voice)
1979 Walk Proud
Cesar
1979 A Force of One
Orlando
1980 City in Fear (TV Movie)
Raymond Zavala
1982 Vice Squad
Pete Mendez
1983 Heartbreaker
Loco
1983 Scarface
Angel
1984 Red Dawn
Aardvark's Father
1985 Silverado
Scruffy
1986 Out of Bounds
Murano
1990 The Rookie
Lt. Raymond Garcia
1990 Postcards from the Edge
Raoul
1992 American Me
Mundo
1993 Roosters (voice)
2003 Kingpin (TV Mini-Series)
Jorge Romo- Gimme Shelter (2003) ... Jorge Romo
- French Connection (2003) ... Jorge Romo
- Pilot (2003) ... Jorge Romo
2003 Justice League (TV Series)
Shifflet- Hearts and Minds: Part II (2003) ... Shifflet (voice)
- Hearts and Minds (2003) ... Shifflet (voice)
2006 The Virgin of Juarez
Eduardo Morales- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Actor, Producer and Founder of independent film company Entangled Entertainment, Noel Guglielmi was raised in Los Angeles and first cast -- without a formal audition -- in a Taco Bell commercial at the age of 15.
Discovered during an acting class as a boy, today he is one of Hollywood's most recognized faces with more than 150 large and small-screen credits to his name over a 25-year career.
Noel has worked with some of the best in the business, with roles in Fast and Furious, Training Day, Bruce Almighty, Purge Anarchy, The Dark Knight Rises, Fresh Off the Boat, CSI Miami, Bones, The Walking Dead and literally hundreds more.
His personal dedication to entertainment spans not only acting and producing but writing, digital content creation, stand-up comedy, talent recruitment, coaching and mentoring as well as motivational speaking.
For Noel, the opportunity to engage audiences across cultures, ages and borders is made even more rewarding when he can draw from his dramatically unique personal experiences to enlighten and improve the quality of life for others, especially at-risk youth and criminal offenders to pop and car culture enthusiasts and more.
After groundbreaking years in the profession as one of Hollywood's original Latino celebrities, Noel was honored to be invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2017 as part of its diversity efforts and in recognition of his contributions.
Noel credits much of his success to learning from his peers. Attentive to every important aspect of film creation and being true to his roots and community help him stand out to succeed in one of the world's most competitive professions and against challenging odds.
Today, he makes time to mentor others both in business and life.2000 Resurrection Blvd. (TV Series)
Lalo / Gang Member (as Noel Albert Guglielmi)- El Baile (2000) ... Lalo
- Pilot: Part 1 (2000) ... Gang Member (as Noel Albert Guglielmi)
2000 Road Dogz (uncredited)
2001 Training Day
Moreno (as Noel Guglielmi)
2001 The Fast and the Furious
Hector (as Noel Guglielmi)
2001 The Animal
Gang Leader (as Noel Guglielmi)
2003 National Security
Latino Convict (as Noel Guglielmi)
2003 Bruce Almighty
Hood (as Noel Guglielmi)
2006 The Virgin of Juarez
Gio
2010 The Walking Dead (TV Series)
Felipe- Vatos (2010) ... Felipe (as Noel G.)
2012 The Dark Knight Rises
Ex-Prisoner at River (as Noel G.)- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Rolando Molina was born Rolando Argueta-Molina in San Salvador, El Salvador, and came to the U.S. at a very young age along with his single mother Ana and younger brother Mario. Rolando and his family struggled to pursue the American dream. All three stayed with family and friends and finally settled down in the suburbs of North Hollywood, California. He attended North Hollywood High School and grew up with the magic of the movies and television.
Determined to break into the industry he had grown to love, after graduation Rolando took a job as a security guard at Universal Studios. One day while working the truck gate, a man driving a Porsche 911 with Florida plates drove up to the gate. It turned out to be Edward James Olmos, who was on the Universal lot to begin production on his gritty film American Me (1992). Olmos saw something in Rolando that caught his attention. A few days later Rolando was approached by Olmos' casting director, who asked him to audition for this film. He did and booked the part, making "American Me" was Rolando's acting debut.1992 American Me
Cop
1993 Menace II Society
Vato #1
1995 Virtuosity
Salesman in Videostore
2000 Next Friday
Baby Joker
2001 Crazy/Beautiful
Hector
2002 King Rikki
Javier
2003 Kingpin (TV Mini-Series)
Bartender- Pilot (2003) ... Bartender
2003 Bruce Almighty
Hood
2005 Domino
Security Manager
2006 The Virgin of Juarez
Cop
2007 Delta Farce
Bartender
2013 Dexter (TV Series)
Armando- This Little Piggy (2013) ... Armando
- Actor
- Producer
Jacob Vargas began his acting career when he was discovered breakdancing in a schoolyard at age 12. His introduction to acting came with a bit part as a breakdancer on the hit TV show Diff'rent Strokes (1978). In 1995 he won the very first ALMA Award (for Emerging Artist of the Year) for his work in both Allison Anders' My Crazy Life (1993) and Gregory Nava's My Family/Mi familia (1995). He later starred in films such as Selena (1997), Get Shorty (1995), American Me (1992), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) and the cult favorite Next Friday (2000) as Ice Cube's nemesis, Joker. He later shined as Tijuana cop Manolo, 'Benicio del Toro''s partner in Steven Soderbergh's Academy Award- winning film Traffic (2000), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award and another ALMA Award. He then made us laugh as Sammy the chef in John Moore's Flight of the Phoenix (2004) and brought depth to Marine sniper Cortez in Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes' war drama Jarhead (2005). In 2006 he starred as a straight-arrow DEA agent opposite Laurence Fishburne and Paul Walker in the action drama _Death and Life of Bobby Z, The (2006)_ and joined an all-star cast as a politically charged busboy in Emilio Estevez's historical drama Bobby (2006) and played a psychologically tortured drone pilot in Alex Rivera's sci-fi political love story _Sleep Dealer, The (2006)_. Not satisfied with just being labeled as an actor, he has also been focusing his talents on writing and producing through his production company, Third Son Productions. In 2001 he executive produced and starred in the independent film Road Dogz (2002). He also co-produced and starred in the stage play "Latinologues", which ran on Broadway in 2005 and is available on DVD. Through Third Son Productions, he is currently developing several feature film and television projects.1987 The Principal
Arturo Diego
1992 American Me
Paulito - age 15
1993 Mi vida loca
Ernesto
1993 Fatal Instinct
Flower Delivery Man
1995 My Family
Young Jose
1995 Get Shorty
Yayo Portillo
1997 Selena
Abie Quintanilla
2000 Next Friday
Joker
2000 Road Dogz
Danny Pacheco
2003 Kingpin (TV Mini-Series)
Ernesto 'El Huevudo' Romo- Pilot (2003) ... Ernesto 'El Huevudo' Romo
2006 The Virgin of Juarez
Detective Lauro
2007 The Hills Have Eyes II
Crank
2014 Cesar Chavez
Richard Chavez- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Carlos Carrasco is an actor, director and producer from Panama City, Panamá. He attended Junior College in the former American Canal Zone and was awarded an acting scholarship to Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. He earned a Masters in Speech at the University of Illinois followed by 3 years at Wayne State University on an acting fellowship as a member of their resident classical repertory company. Carrasco spent his early years as a professional actor in New York, making his Broadway debut in the Circle in the Square's production of The National Health with Rita Moreno. Extensive stage work followed including appearances in regional theaters such as The Hartford Stage Company, Atlanta's Alliance Theater and the Los Angeles Mark Taper Forum. In addition, Carrasco's acting career includes television, commercials, voice-overs and movies. His film credits include the blockbuster hit Speed, and roles in director Taylor Hackford's major cult classic film Blood In & Blood Out and Parker starring Jason Statham. Additional film credits include Crocodile Dundee II and The Fisher King. TV credits include recurring characters on HBO's Looking and Insecure, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Voyager, Parks and Recreation, ER, and SeaQuest 2032 to name a few. He has also acted under the direction of John Frankenheimer in The Burning Season (HBO) and William Friedkin in the 200th episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. His directorial and production work includes the award winning short film One, and the shorts Honesty, Pencil Rose and Disarm as well as the documentary short Art Galleries & Back Alleys about the artists collective Self-Help Graphics in Boyle Heights,. He was Executive Producer for eight seasons of the Panamanian International Film Festival, based in Los Angeles and showcasing the work of Latino Filmmakers from the U.S. and Latin America. In his free time, Carrasco likes to play the guitar, go to jam sessions, and listen to the blues and Bruce.1988 Crocodile Dundee II
Garcia
1993 Blood In, Blood Out
Popeye
1994 Speed
Ortiz
2001 100 Kilos (Video)
Oscar Danilo Blandón
2006 The Virgin of Juarez
Bus Driver- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Award-winning actor Esai Morales is a graduate of New York's High School for the Performing Arts. He was born in Brooklyn, to Puerto Rican parents, and began his acting career on the stage, first appearing in El Hermano at the Ensemble Theatre Studio and at New York's Shakespeare Festival In The Park in The Tempest. He had his feature film debut in Bad Boys and his breakthrough role as Bob Morales in La Bamba made him a star, contributing to making the film the most commercially successful Latino-themed Rock biopic of all time.
In 1997 Esai Morales co-founded the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, created to advance the presence of Latinos in the media, telecommunications and entertainment industries. The NHFA has provided scholarships to hundreds of Hispanic students in excess of 1 million dollars. Theater performances include Oscar Wilde's Salome with Al Pacino (Broadway) Joe Papp's production of The Tempest with Raul Julia (New York's Shakespeare in the Park Festival) Tamer of Horses (Los Angeles Theater Center) The Exonerated, directed by Bob Balaban and his musical theater debut on The Mambo Kings. Film credits include Bad Boys, La Bamba, Rapa Nui, Mi Familia, Fast Food Nation, Paid in Full, The Line, Atlas Shrugged: Part II, Jarhead II: Field of Fire, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca and Gun Hill Road a film he starred and executive produced. The film was a grand Jury Nominee at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. Television credits comprise the Emmy award-winning series NYPD BLUE (ABC) Resurrection Blvd (Showtime) American Family (PBS) Miami Vice (NBC) Fame (NBC) Law and Order: SVU (NBC) The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story (HBO) Vanished (FOX) Burn Notice (USA) Jericho (CBS) Caprica (Syfy) Fairly Legal (USA) Criminal Minds (CBS) Major Crimes (TNT) and Saving Westbrook High. Morales plays the role of President of The United States on The Brink, HBO's dark comedy about a geopolitical crisis.1983 Bad Boys
Paco Moreno
1987 The Principal
Raymi Rojas
1987 La Bamba
Bob Morales
1995 My Family
Chucho
2002 American Family (TV Series)
Esteban Gonzalez- The Father (2002) ... Esteban Gonzalez
- Silence of God (2002) ... Esteban Gonzalez
- Circle of Fire (2002) ... Esteban Gonzalez
- La Llorona: Part 2 (2002) ... Esteban Gonzalez
- La Llorona: Part 1 (2002) ... Esteban Gonzalez
- The Star (2002) ... Esteban Gonzalez
- The Sewing Machine (2002) ... Esteban Gonzalez
- Pilot (2002) ... Esteban Gonzalez
2000-2002 Resurrection Blvd. (TV Series)
Paco Corrales- Pararse (2002) ... Paco Corrales
- Saliendo (2001) ... Paco Corrales
- Mano a Mano (2001) ... Paco Corrales
- Con Cuidado (2001) ... Paco Corrales
- Dos Padres (2000) ... Paco Corrales
- Negro y Moreno (Black and Brown) (2000) ... Paco Corrales
- El Regreso de Paco (2000) ... Paco Corrales
2002 George Lopez (TV Series)
Manny Lopez- Who's Your Daddy? (2002) ... Manny Lopez
2006 The Virgin of Juarez
Father Herrera
2009-2010 Caprica (TV Series)
Joseph Adama- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Guillermo Diaz was born in 1975 in New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Scandal (2012), Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021) and Weeds (2005).1996 High School High
Paco Rodriguez
1998 Half Baked
Scarface
2006 The Virgin of Juarez
Felix
2003-2006 Chappelle's Show (TV Series)
Scarface / Customer / Defendant / ...- Episode #3.2 (2006) ... Customer
- Episode #2.7 (2004) ... Scarface
- Episode #1.8 (2003) ... Scarface
- Episode #1.2 (2003) ... Defendant
- Episode #1.1 (2003) ... Popcopy Employee
2010 Cop Out
Poh Boy- Actress
- Producer
Ana Claudia Talancon was born on May 1st, 1980 in Cancun, Mexico. Her first performance was in her home town Quintana Roo in Cancun.
She studied acting in Cancun with the Cuban professor Albio Paz. She later went to Mexico City to continue her studies at the Acting Workshop of Héctor Mendoza and Raúl Quintanilla. She has starred in various soap operas such as 'Al norte del corazón', 'Señora','Romántica obsesión' (for which she won the Sol de Oro award in 1999 for Best New Actress) and 'Amor latino'.
Her big screen debut in the role of Valentina in _ El cometa (1999)_ by Marisa Sistach, for which she was nominated for the Ariel award for Best New Actress. Her performance as Amelia in The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002) with Gael García Bernal, gave her an international recognition.2005 Sueño
Nina
2006 The Virgin of Juarez
Mariela- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez Romo is the most famous person in the history of Mexican movies. For an era he symbolized Mexico due to his violent machismo, rooted in the Revolution of 1910-17, and because of his staunch commitment to Mexican cultural nationalism. Born to a Mexican (Mestizo) father and a Native American Kickapoo mother, Emilio was himself the "mestizaje" (mestizo) that his films would later glorify.
The teenaged Fernandez abandoned his studies to serve as an officer in the Huertista rebellion, which broke out on 12/4/1923, led by Gen. Adolfo de la Huerta. On July 20th of that year, Pancho Villa had been ambushed and murdered; one theory was that the killing was done by agents of Mexican President Álvaro Obregón. Obregon, when he served as a general during the revolution, had defeated Villa in four successive battles collectively known as the Battle of Celaya, which was the largest military confrontation in Latin-American history before the 1982 Falklands War.
Under the Constitution of 1917 that Obregon himself helped write, Mexican presidents could not succeed themselves (Obregon would later have the constitution amended so he could serve a second, non-consecutive term; after winning the presidential election of 1928, he was assassinated before his inauguration). Obregon had won the presidency in 1920 after inciting a successful military revolt against President Venustiano Carranza, who had planned on naming Ignacio Bonillas as his successor instead of Obregon, who believed that he deserved it. The revolt began when the governor of the state of Sonora, Gen. Huerta, broke with President Carranza and declared the secession of Sonora. This was a signal for the beginning of the successful uprising against Carranza, led by Obregon and supported by Gen. Plutarco Elías Calles. After Carranza was killed in an ambush, Huerta served as provisional president of Mexico from 6/1/1920 to 12/1/1920, until elections could be held. When Obregon won the federal election, Huerta became Minister of Finance in the new government.
Huerta considered himself the natural successor to President Obregon, just as Obregon had considered himself Carranza's natural successor. The murdered Villa was seen as an ally of Huerta, who had publicly announced his candidacy for the presidency. Obregon, however, planned to remain in power by handpicking his successor, a tradition that lasted throughout 20th-century Mexican politics. When he named his anti-clerical Minister of the Interior, the former Gen. Calles, as his heir, Huerta rose up in a rebellion that eventually affected half of the Mexican army. Like Huerta a native of Sonora and a former general in the Mexican army, Calles had preceded him as governor and military ruler of their home state from 1915-16. Huerta thought his service and loyalty to Obregon should have brought him the presidency, but Mexican presidents, not allowed to succeed themselves and limited (mostly) to one term, tried to extend their power by naming political puppets as successors (Calles would outdo Obregon by controlling the Mexican presidency outright or through puppets from 1924-34).
The rebellion was a serious threat to Obregon, but he was able to quash it by using loyal army units, battalions of workers and farmers and intervention by the US. By the time the revolt ended in March 1924, 54 generals and 7,000 soldiers were gone, either killed in battle, executed, exiled or dismissed. Obregon banished Huerta to exile in the US (where he lived in Los Angeles, supporting himself as a music teacher). This was the cauldron of violence and nationalism in which the young Fernandez came into his manhood. He received a 20-year prison sentence for his participation in the rebellion on the losing side. Escaping prison by following Huerta into exile in Los Angeles, Fernandez absorbed the rudiments of filmmaking as a bit player and extra working in Hollywood in the 1920s and early 1930s. With the election of Lázaro Cárdenas as president in 1934, the Huertista rebels were granted an amnesty (Huerta himself was recalled from exile by Cardenas in 1935 and served in several posts, including Inspector General of Foreign Consulates and Director General of Civil Pensions). Fernandez returned to Mexico in 1934 and began working in the Mexican movie industry as a screenwriter and actor. His Indian looks, which gave him his nickname "El Indio," also brought him his first lead role, playing an Indian in Janitzio (1935). Due to his imposing physical presence and Indian countenance, El Indio was cast as bandits, charros (cowboys) and revolutionaries.
The Cardenas government of 1934-40 established the framework in which the "Golden Age of Mexican Cinema" could be realized. The political system that dominated Mexico for over half a century was consolidated during his regime. The government incorporated trade unions, campesino (peasant) organizations and middle-class professionals and office workers into the ruling Party of the Mexican Revolution (later the Party of the Institutional Revolution, or PRI). Cardenas oversaw the redistribution of millions of acres of land to peasants and the expansion of collective bargaining rights and wage increases to workers.
Cardenas and all subsequent PRM/PRI presidents (all presidents of Mexico in the 20th century beginning with Calles were PRM/PRI members; Vicente Fox was the first from outside the party in three-quarters of a century) maintained political control of Mexico by granting favors and concessions to their constituencies inside the corporatist party structure in exchange for worker and campesino organizations delivering votes and suppressing discontent among their constituencies. The PRM/PRI itself created an organizational structure for the government that allowed citizens access to the political realm, in the sense that they could interface with government agencies. Once inside the government machine, seeking redress, favors, etc., the non-connected citizen was led through a maze of layers of bureaucracy that never permitted a satisfactory result. Citizens caught in the maze were eventually frustrated and discouraged, but the ingenious if disingenuous system worked as it gave them input--just no guaranteed output. By frustrating them within an institutional structure, the PRM/PRI governments--both federal and state--took the fight out of them. The PRM/PRI sought to control frustration that had led to violence in the past, particularly among the generals who had the power to destabilize the society and economy. That government structure thus served as a homeostatic device for the people's frustration, relieving it and never allowing it to build up again into a revolutionary situation.
Cardenas' most notable achievement arguably was the nationalization of Mexico's oil industry. After unsuccessfully trying to negotiate better terms with Mexican Eagle--the holding company owned by Royal Dutch/Shell and Standard Oil of New Jersey--Cardenas nationalized Mexico's petroleum reserves and expropriated the equipment of the foreign oil companies on 3/18/38. A spontaneous six-hour parade broke out in Mexico City to celebrate the event. Unlike Fidel Castro's nationalization of foreign assets in Cuba, Shell and SONJ were compensated for their expropriated assets. Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Mexican model became a beacon for other oil-producing nations seeking to gain control over their own energy resources from foreign companies. Cardenas was the only PRM/PRI president who did not enrich himself while in office. After retiring as Minister of Defense in 1945--the post he took after relinquishing the presidency--he assumed a modest lifestyle. He spent the last years of his life supervising irrigation projects and promoting education and free medical care for the poor. This was the man who set the tone of the modern Mexico that arose from the revolution and civil wars of the 1920s, who cleared the ground for the economic boom of the 1940s in which the "Golden Age of Mexican Cinema" reached its apogee. Classic Mexican cinema has mostly been ignored in the US due to the language barrier and a colonialist mindset suffused with racism. When Mexican cinema has been addressed by those north of the border, the primary focus fell on the brilliant cinematography of Gabriel Figueroa, who shot films for John Ford and John Huston, or on former Hollywood star Dolores Del Río. Fernandez's reputation was so great that he was even appreciated in the US in his lifetime, but his notoriety as a sort of wildman of the Mexican movie industry and his appearance as an actor in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) overshadowed his greatness as a director. While Mexico has often served as a locale for American films--the genres of sweet (white) young things imperiled by swarthy Mexican bandits and of Americans in revolutionary Mexico, to say nothing of Zorro and The Cisco Kid--have been part of the Yankee cinema since the East Coast-based film companies began relocating to southern California in the early 1910s. Gringo Warner Baxter won the second Oscar ever awarded for Best Actor playing The Cisco Kid in a role originally intended for Raoul Walsh, of all people. Mexico has been the site of such blockbuster films as Viva Villa! (1934), Juarez (1939), Viva Zapata! (1952), Vera Cruz (1954), The Professionals (1966) and "The Wild Bunch," but except for La caza del oro (1972), a Johnny-Come-Lately to the genre, they seldom featured Mexican actors in anything other than bit parts, if at all, with the exception of Anthony Quinn, one of the few Mexican-Americans to achieve superstar status. Mexican performers taken up by Hollywood --such as Ramon Novarro, Rita Hayworth, John Gavin and Raquel Welch--were, like half-Mexican baseball great Ted Williams (born in San Diego), de-ethnicized in a sort of cultural ethnic cleansing. Salma Hayek, who is of mixed Mexican and Lebanese parentage, is arguably the first Mexican since Lupe Velez and Dolores del Rio to cross over as a Hollywood superstar and remain identifiably Mexican (even at the dawn of a new millennium, she was urged by her Hollywood agents to play up her Arabic ethnicity, even with anti-Arab feeling rife in Hollywood and the US at large--their "reasoning" was that no one would go see a Mexican in movies since their cleaning ladies were Mexican),
Until the 1990s, with Like Water for Chocolate (1992) ("Like Water for Chocolate"), Mexican films themselves seldom strayed in the Yankee consciousness, except for the rare one like The Pearl (1947), based on a novel by Californian John Steinbeck and a prize-winner at the Venice Film Festival. "La Perla" was directed by Fernandez, the greatest director to come out of Mexico's golden age of cinema. The first Mexican feature was released in 1906, though production often was eclipsed by political and economic conditions. There were documentaries made about the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s, but very few films were made in the 1920s. Sergei Eisenstein's trip to Mexico in the early 1930s to make Que Viva Mexico (1979), which remained unfinished due to his problems with his American backer, Upton Sinclair, injected a new enthusiasm into the Mexican movie industry.
While most American film historians place the Golden Age firmly in the 1940s--some specifically assigning it to the period 1943-46 and others extending it until the mid-'50s--the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema properly stretches back to 1936, peaks in the mid-'40s (when the Mexican cinema receives international recognition; two of Fernandez's films won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and were nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festivals) and terminates in the mid-'50s, with the end of Fernandez's 25-film collaboration with cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. Figueroa, the Mexican movie industry's first great director, inaugurated the Golden Age in 1936 with two hits, Out on the Big Ranch (1936) ("Out at Big Ranch") and Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936) ("Let's Go with Pancho Villa"). Both were "political message" movies addressing the social and cultural issues lying at the heart of Mexican Revolution. "Vamonos con Pancho Villa" has the distinction of being the first feature produced at the Mexican government-subsidized studio Cinematografica Latino Americana S.A., while "Allá en el Rancho Grande" made Tito Guízar a star. Guizar eventually became the Mexican movie industry's first superstar by playing in the "comedias rancheras" (ranch comedies) genre that was the most popular type of film in Mexico in the 1930s. A hit with audiences throughout Latin America, "comedias rancheras" were set in an idyllic, pre-revolutionary Mexico. The vaudevillian Mario Moreno, who became a Latin-American superstar under the name Cantinflas, made his short-subject debut in 1936 and would soon become the Latin-American film industry's leading comedian when he made his feature-film debut in You're Missing the Point (1940) ("There is the Detail"). The Cantinflas character is rooted in the image of the "pelado," or poor white trash, and his character deflates respectable society through his sharp repartee. Peace--i.e., a lack of overt domestic political turmoil--laid the groundwork for the development of a truly popular indigenous cinema in the 1930s and '40s. The comedias rancheras and Cantinflas comedies helped make the Mexican cinema commercially viable. With Hollywood distracted by turning out propaganda and military training films during World War II, there was an opening in Latin America that the Mexican industry filled. Without competition from Hollywood, the Mexican movie industry dominated Latin-American cinemas for most of the decade. Movie production tripled in the 1940s compared to the previous decade. The Mexican film industry underwent a consolidation and developed a star system, some of whom crossed over to achieve international recognition. The peak of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema came in the 1940s, spurred by rapid industrialization and a resulting affluence--although inequitably distributed--caused by trade with the US, as World War II boosted American demand for Mexican raw materials. The Mexican movie industry became the world's largest producer of Spanish-language films, helped by the fact that the other large producers, Argentina and Spain, were headed by fascist governments. Though the Mexican government was conservative and repressive in the 1940s, it encouraged the production of nationalist films that helped articulate a Mexican identity. During the 1940s Mexican movie stars and directors became popular icons, and some even became public figures with effective political influence. Among the movie stars blossoming during the decade were Dolores del Rio, Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Joaquín Pardavé and María Félix, while Fernandez and Figueroa became globally known. Luis Buñuel moved to Mexico and would direct some of the country's major movies in the following decade.
Mexican movies typically were genre pictures, melodramas, romances, musicals, comedies and horror, which addressed all aspects of Mexican society, from love stories about the "lumpen proletariat" to dramas about the Indians. Mexican movies are a mirror of Mexican society, including history (19th-century dictator Porfirio Díaz and his court, The Revolution and Villa and Emiliano Zapata), obsessions (both familial and erotic) and mythology (Indian and big-city culture). Mexican cinema did this using the classic genres of the the melodrama, the comedy (in its romantic, musical and ranchera versions, and slapstick and farce) and even the horror film. With its proximity to Hollywood, and the fact that many leading lights of the Mexican cinema were familiar with Hollywood production values, the indigenous movie industry set a high standard for itself, as it had to measure up to Hollywood product.
Fernandez made his motion picture debut as an actor in Chano Urueta's El destino (1928), but his early work in movies was in American westerns churned out by Monogram director John P. McCarthy, including the Bob Steele programmers The Oklahoma Cyclone (1930), The Land of Missing Men (1930), Headin' North (1930), The Sunrise Trail (1931) and the Tim McCoy "hoss opera" The Western Code (1932). After a supporting role in Enrico Caruso Jr.'s La buenaventura (1934), he made his return to Mexican pictures in 1934, starring in Heart of a Bandit (1934) and director Fernando de Fuentes' Cruz Diablo (1934).
Fernandez's first film as a director was La isla de la pasión (1942), in 1941, which he also wrote and in which he played a bit part. The movie starred Pedro Armendáriz, who Fernandez would cast in many of his films. Another favorite collaborator was his wife Columba Domínguez. El Indio rapidly gained a reputation as Mexico's premier director making populist dramas. His Maria Candelaria (1944) put Mexican film on the map when it won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. It has been variously praised as "the highest triumph of Mexican plastic arts on celluloid" and as "a titanic promise for strictly patriotic [Mexican] cinema." French film critic Georges Sadoul, in his 1954 book "Histoire General du Cinema," praised the film for its "authentic" portrayal of rural Mexican life and for addressing race relations.
The film remains controversial in Mexico due to El Indio's aesthetic choices, which emphasized the exotic and primitive, and his representation of Mexican Indians, which some critics believed was inauthentic or "touristy." The nationalistic Fernandez wanted to articulate an idea of what it meant to be Mexican that was uniquely Mexican, and not influenced by Hollywood, whose films he felt were Americanizing Mexican cinema audiences. Terming his films "autos sacramentales [passion plays] of mexicanidad," Fernandez wanted to create a Mexican cinema that Mexicanized Mexicans. The film stars Dolores del Rio, the Hollywood movie star who had returned to Mexico after becoming disillusioned with the American movie industry, as the daughter of a prostitute trying to survive just before the Revolution. Set in the floating gardens of Xochimilco in Mexico City, del Rio's character is shunned by the locals, who are indigenous people. Her great desire is to marry her lover, played by Pedro Armendariz, but their romance proves to be star-crossed. Fernandez's direction was flawless, and Figueroa's black-and-white cinematography was masterful. The collaborators created one of the classics of not just Mexican movies but of world cinema. When El Indio and Figueroa were making "Maria Candelaria," they were part of a movement in which Mexican filmmakers were consciously attempting to create an indigenous art cinema that could compete with Hollywood product while simultaneously articulating a vision of Mexicans that was rooted in the "indigenismo" and "mestizophilia" of Mexican intellectuals. José Vasconcelos, the Minister of Education during the Obregon administration, was particularly influential due to his concepts of "mexicanos en potencia" and the cosmic race. In Vasconcelos' philosophy, the "barbarous" Indian was redeemed by a modernization program based on education, and by the assimilation of the Indians with the Caucausian Europeans into "la raza" of mestizos ("mestizaje"). Gabriel Figueroa was conscious of the fact that he and Fernandez, a creative team that became known as "Epoca de Oro," invented an idea of rural Mexico that did not actually exist. Figueroa established himself as the leader in imagining a new, post-revolutionary Mexican consciousness, through the vehicle of the visual image. A "painter in light," Figueroa learned his craft from Gregg Toland and Eduard Tisse, Eisenstein's cinematographer. Figueroa is credited with creating the classic Mexican film aesthetic in collaboration with El Indio and other film directors. In over 200 movies, he developed the classic imagery and aesthetic of Mexican cinema, which also influenced and was influenced by contemporary Mexican artists. Figueroa pioneered an indigenous visual vernacular that affected the muralist movement, and he has been referred to as the fourth of the most important Mexican muralist after Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros. Siqueiros himself called Figueroa's cinematography "murals that travel."
In their 25 films together between 1942-58, El Indio and Figueroa created the idea of "mexicanidad" cinema while elevating the mestizaje (mixed-race) identity, as well as the status of the pre-Columbian culture. The epic visual style they developed was indebted to Eisenstein's unfinished "Que viva Mexico." Their style fetishized the Mexican landscape through beautiful, carefully composed, stationary long shots. For two decades Mexican art cinema was identified with the films resulting from the Fernandez-Figueroa collaboration. Their films not only affected Mexican audiences' collective identity, but they affected how their audiences, both domestic and global, viewed Mexico and its history.
The climax of "Maria Candelaria" was an homage to Carlos Navarro's classic "indigenista" film Janitzio (1935). The movie is evocative of the anti-clerical struggles engendered by the Revolution. The secularization of the Mexican state was begun with the 1910 Revolution, continued with the 1917 Constitution, and reached a violent apotheosis in the Cristero Rebellion of 1926-29, when the President tried to crack down on the Roman Catholic church. However, the anti-clericalism of the revolutionaries had to co-exist with the cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the symbol that has proved the most powerful and enduring in creating a Mexican national consciousness. Our Lady has served as a symbol for political struggles from the 19th-century wars of independence to the Cristero wars. On one level, "Maria Candelaria" is a paean to the cult of the Virgin Mary, a phenomenon present in much of classical Mexican cinema, which likely is one of the reasons the films Fernandez and Figueroa and others of the 1940s and 1950s proved so popular all over Latin America.
In 1946 Fernandez filmed an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novella "The Pearl," in Spanish- and English-language versions. Shot by Figueroa and starring El Indio's favorite actor, Pedro Armendariz, "La perla" won El Indio a nomination for Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, further solidifying his notoriety as a director and publicizing the Mexican movie industry. The film also won him the Golden Ariel for Best Picture at the 1948 Ariel Awards (the Mexican equivalent of the Oscars), and Fernandez, Figueroa, Armendariz and Juan García won Silver Ariels for Best Direction, Cinematography, Actor and Supporting Actor, respectively. Figueroa won a Golden Globe for Best Cinematography in 1949 from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
In 1948 Salón México (1949) was released, written and directed by Fernandez with cinematography by Figueroa. An urban melodrama, the film was groundbreaking in that it helped usher in a new genre, the "cabaretera" (cabaret) film, racier and just as commercial as the familiar genre of rancheras, which was then fading in popularity. The movie recreates the atmosphere of the famous Mexico City dance hall and won Marga López an Ariel Award for her role as the taxi dancer Mercedes. The movie featured a sensual soundtrack performed by the Afro-Cuban music group Son Clave de Oro. By the end of the 1940s Emilio Fernandez was the most famous and prestigious director in all of Latin America. He would continue his reign as Mexico's premier director into the mid-'50s, when his powers began to decline and Spanish amigra Luis Buñuel took over the title. As the most famous directors and biggest stars aged or died, Mexican cinema began to decline commercially, and the Golden Age of Mexican cinema came to an end (ironically, Bunuel's Mexican oeuvre strengthened as the national cinema went into decline and L'age d'or went into eclipse).
Although Fernandez and Figueroa last worked together in El puño del amo (1958), which starred El Indio's half-brother Jaime Fernández, the collaboration was essentially over by the mid-'50s when they made La rosa blanca (1954) and La Tierra del Fuego se apaga (1955). Their last great film together was La rebelión de los colgados (1954) (based on B. Traven's "Rebellion of the Hanged," it's English-language title), which starred Pedro Armendariz and Emiolio's half-brother Jaime Fernández, both of whom were nominated for Silver Ariel awards as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. Jaime Fernandez won the Ariel, as did Amanda del Llano for Best Supporting Actress, Gloria Schoemann for editing and José B. Carles for sound. Antonio Díaz Conde was nominated for a Silver Ariel for Best Score. As his collaboration with Fernandez waned, Figueroa's professional relationship with Bunuel waxed. Figueroa first served as director of photography on Bunuel's classic The Young and the Damned (1950), which won 11 Ariels in 1951, including the Golden Ariel as Best Picture in 1951 and awards for Best Cinematography for Figueroa and Best Director and Original Story for Bunuel. Their other films together were Nazarin (1959) ("This Strange Passion"; winner of the International Prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival), Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959); The Young One (1960), (which won a Special Mention at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival); The Exterminating Angel (1962), ("The Exterminating Angel"); and Simon of the Desert (1965) ("Simon of the Desert"). Of the Golden Age output, "New York Times" movie critic A.O. Scott said, "There is a frankness in these films that would never have passed muster with the Hays Office." The Golden Age had peaked in the 1940s, bolstered by the economic boom caused by the World War II alliance with the US, government support for the industry via state-funded studios, the maturation of a star system, and the rationalization of distribution and exhibition. Aside from Bunuel's pictures, the post-Golden Age era saw indigenous cinema suffer through the 1960s, as the industry became more dependent on formulaic pictures and such popular genres as the "Santo the Wrestler" series. During the 1960s and 1970s many low-grade horror and action movies were produced with professional wrestler Santo and Hugo Stiglitz being the biggest stars. However, the moribund 1960s led to a revival of government support for the industry in the 1970s, which established the base for a revival of Mexican art cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. El Indio continued directing films until 1979, but when his collaboration with Figueroa ended in 1958, his reputation suffered as the artistry of his pictures declined. He began acting more, though he directed a picture every few years. Gradually, the notoriety of his life began overtaking his reputation as a filmmaker. El Indio lived out the fantasy of perhaps every director when he shot a critic, who had dissed one of his movies, in the testicles. A violent man, he shot and killed a farm laborer, which he claimed was in self-defense. Convicted of manslaughter in 1976, he served six months of a 4-1/2-year sentence. By the 1960s Fernandez's off-screen reputation as a violent man led to his typecasting as brutal villains in many Mexican and American films. As an actor, Fernandez appeared with his brother, singer/actor Fernando Fernández, in John Ford's The Fugitive (1947), on which he also served as associate producer. Other American films he appeared in were John Huston's The Unforgiven (1960) (on which he also served as second unit director) and The Night of the Iguana (1964), the John Wayne pictures The War Wagon (1967) and Chisum (1970) (on which he also served as second unit director), Sidney J. Furie's The Appaloosa (1966) in support of Marlon Brando, and Burt Kennedy's Return of the Seven (1966). After assaying the role of renegade Mexican Gen. Mapache in the classic "The Wild Bunch", Fernandez appeared in two other Peckinpah films, as Paco in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) and as El Jefe, who gives the order to Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). He was reunited with John Huston in Under the Volcano (1984) and appeared in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986).
El Indio's last two films as a writer-director were México Norte (1979) and Erótica (1979), in which he also starred. In all, El Indio directed 43 pictures from 1942-79. He was the credited screenwriter on 40 pictures, starting with Beautiful Sky (1936) in 1936. He also served as second-unit director, both credited and uncredited, on such American pictures shot in Mexico as The Magnificent Seven (1960), in which he was attached to the American crew by the Mexican government to ensure that the depictions of Mexicans were not racist or demeaning. Fernandez died in Mexico City on 8/6/86.
Government sponsorship of the industry and the creation of state-supported film helped create the phenomenon known as the "Nuevo Cine Mexicano" ("New Mexican Cinema") that catapulted Mexican movies into prominence on the global market in the 1990s. Amores Perros (2000), And Your Mother Too (2001) and The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002) are just three of the most recent Mexican films that have featured prominently in American art cinemas. The spirit of El Indio lives on!
In 2002 "La Perla" was named to the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry, which is maintained by the US Library of Congress. Fernandez and his collaborator Gabriel Figueroa were honored on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of El Indio's birth at the inaugural Puerto Vallarta Film Festival of the Americas held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in November 2004.R.I.P. (1903-1986) 89 films /peliculas
Born: Emilio Fernández Romo
March 26, 1903 in Hondo, Coahuila, Mexico
1966 Return of the Seven
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Fernando Rey, the great Spanish movie actor primarily known in the United States for his role as "Frog One" in The French Connection (1971) and its sequel, was born Fernando Casado D'Arambillet on September 20 1917, in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, the son of Colonel Casado Veiga. Originally, the young Fernando intended to become an architect. However, when the Spanish Civil War erupted in 1936, his architectural studies were interrupted, and he gained employment as a movie extra. He took the stage name "Fernando Rey" at the beginning of his career, equivalent, in English, to "Fernando King". Eight years after his movie debut, he was cast in his first major speaking role, as the Duke de Alba in José López Rubio's 1944 movie "Eugenia de Montijo".
Rey enjoyed a long and prosperous career as an actor in movies, the theater, radio, and television. He also was a major voice-over artist in Spain, narrating films and dubbing the voices of actors in foreign films. Rey's most fruitful collaboration was with the great director Luis Buñuel, which began during the 1960s and continued thought the 1970s. The films that Rey appeared in for Buñuel' made him an international star, the first produced by the Spanish cinema. By the early 1970s, Rey's career reached its high point, with his co-starring role in "The French Connection" (Best Picture Oscar Winner for 1971) and his starring role in Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) ("The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner for 1972). Rey followed up these successes by appearing in The French Connection (1971) in 1974, and Buñuel's tandem That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) ("That Obscure Object of Desire"), an art-house hit that was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Ironically, in the film, Rey's voice was dubbed into French by Michel Piccoli. That same year, he won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for Carlos Saura' Elisa, My Life (1977).
Many honors came to Rey in the twilight of his career, during the 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded at San Sebastián and Cannes, and was presented with the gold medal of the Spanish Art and Movie Sciences Academy. He became the president of that Academy from 1992 till his death from cancer two years later.R.I.P. (1917-1994) 243 films/ peliculas
Born: Fernando Casado Arambillet
September 20, 1917 in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
1966 Return of the Seven
Priest- Soledad St. Hilaire was born in Santo Tomas Hospital in the City of Panama, on October 25, 1950, at 11:00pm. Graduated from Panama School in 1969, and in 1970, she came to Los Angeles, California, to attend California Business College, at this moment, she is attending Cypress College where she is under the intensive theater program. And although her hopes are set on a Law Degree, acting will be her first love. Ms. St. Hilaire has been a single mom of a very supportive daughter, Sabella St. Hilaire, also an actress, who continues to give her mother's career a one hundred percent support.
In January 1992, Soledad was diagnosed with cancer, and after several operations, God gave her another opportunity, making Soledad realize that acting was her definite path. In 1995, her daughter's agent asked her to go to an audition, which she declined. Later, her daughter asked her to call the casting agent and try to reschedule, but it was too late. The Casting agent told Soledad that it was very difficult for her to find qualified motherly, Hispanic/Latina women to cast in her commercial and encouraged Soledad to break into showbiz. Without hesitation, Ms. St. Hilaire researched everything about the business and was hooked.
It wasn't long after that Ms. St. Hilaire made her first big-screen appearance in Miguel Arteta's 1996 controversial feature film Star Maps (1997). Her work has been continuous with a string of films including The End of Violence (1997) directed by Wim Wenders; Crazy/Beautiful (2001) directed by John Stockwell; Real Women Have Curves (2002), HBO (2002) winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, directed by Patricia Cardoso and Full Frontal (2002) with the Oscar Winner Director Steven Soderbergh.
Aside from her busy film career, Ms. St. Hilaire is a Licensed Real Estate Agent and has been an Escrow Officer, Title Officer, Travel Agent, Welfare worker for Orange County, Notary Public, Manager for Denny's Restaurant and IHOP, has a certificate for Court Mediator as well. She currently resides in Cypress, California, where she is the proprietor of SoleMar Marketing & Promotions and SoleMar Productions, which used to produce "Nosotros Now," an entertainment program. In her free time, Soledad enjoys browsing the web, getting healthy recipes, and working on her Theater web class. A handywoman, avid gardener and all around performer.Aside from her busy film career, Ms. St. Hilaire is a Licensed Real Estate Agent and has been an Escrow Officer, Title Officer, Travel Agent, Welfare worker for Orange County, Notary Public, Manager for Denny's Restaurant and IHOP, has a certificate for Court Mediator as well. She currently resides in Cypress, California, where she is the proprietor of SoleMar Marketing & Promotions and SoleMar Productions, which used to produce "Nosotros Now," an entertainment program. In her free time, Soledad enjoys browsing the web, getting healthy recipes, and working on her Theater web class. A handywoman, avid gardener and all around performer.
2005 English as a Second Language
Aunt Maria
2003 The Maldonado Miracle (TV Movie)
Josephina
2002 Real Women Have Curves
Pancha - Rene Raymond Rivera. Born January 9th, in the middle of the third quarter of the 20th century, in San Antonio, Texas. U.S.A. The youngest of six children. Parents, Andres Aguilar Rivera, and Eva Perez Rivera, who early on in their marriage worked in the Texas fields, picking cotton, and fruits and vegetables. Rene is thankful and grateful to his parents for leading by example the importance of hard, honest work, and never giving up the loyalty to love and family, no matter how sacrificial. Rene also owes much of his purpose as an artist to his brothers and sisters, Ray Rivera, Janie Aguirre, Dora Morales, Joe Rivera, and Rose Chang, because their support, and guidance through out his childhood, taught him that love and friendship in family life is exactly the same in life's work and purpose outside of family. That we are true to ourselves and everyone we meet every day of our lives. Rene is also grateful to his years in school in San Antonio, at Stonewall elementary, he learned that friendship and respect are always coexisting, and loyalty equals an integrity of the soul that will last forever. At Southcross (Leal) middle school, he learned that respect for girls is a vital way of showing up in life with true gentility and stillness of the loving heart. At Harlandale High school he learned the core purpose of his soul, to be an actor, an artist that sees the beauty of art embracing life. He gives thanks to his teacher, Mark Blakeney, for seeing and recognizing his talent as an actor, and guiding him to pursue his theatrical studies at Incarnate Word College, (now University). At Incarnate Word College, Rene learned the most important lesson of his life's work- Love of self as an artist. No matter the theme, or plot of the story, the personality of the character's portrayed, or even the amount of work. The core was all love, all fearlessness, and pure excitement of the soul. For this all encompassing gift, Rene thanks the beautiful Ronald Ibbs, and Maureen Halligan, two of the greatest persons, actors, teachers and artists anyone will ever know. He also humbly bows to, and thanks with gratefulness Ronnie's, and Maureen's incredible supporting, creative team- George Burnett, Karen Jones, and Richard Jones. They walked with grace, and a theatrical power of love, and endless creative imagination, that was awe-inspiring, and inspirational. Bless you Incarnate Word. Rene eventually would audition for The Juilliard School in New York City, and on April 1, 1982 he received a letter of acceptance from Juilliard, where he would be accepted on a full scholarship. His journey through The Juilliard School's Drama department, and life in NYC, where he would grow into adulthood, was filled with all the beauty and raw life experiences, light and dark, that would help add to the sculpture of his life, and work. He deeply thanks Harold Stone, Michael Langham, Tim Monich, Marian Seldes, Moni Yakim, Robert Williams, Eve Shapiro, and Kevin Kline. The Juilliard School Drama Departments' Stalwarts. Their highest level of professionalism was never without child-like wonder, curious excitement, and loving support. Rene gives unbridled thanks to Joe Papp, founder of The Public Theater in New York City. To Rosemarie Tichler, and JoAnne Akalaitis, who cast him in prolific productions after graduating from The Juilliard School, Drama Group 15. Rosemarie Tichler, and JoAnne Akalaitis, two great heroines of theater, and life. Working in New York City theater, On Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off Off Broadway, and in Reogional Theater in the U.S., and Europe, Rene also was working in Film and Television, and all those productions allowed him to work at deeper, higher stakes levels, and he's grateful to all those he worked with in New York City. He will always know, and be thankful to NYC , as the birth place of his man-hood, and his maturity as a human being. Rene Rivera is a life time member of The Actors Studio in Los Angeles, and New York City. He is eternally grateful, and thankful to Jaime Sanchez, Al Pacino, Estelle Parsons, James Eric, Harry Cohn, Mark Rydell, Martin Landeau, Barbara Bain, Joanne Linville, Charlie Dierkop, Salome Jens, Allan Miller, and Helen Sanders...for their undeterred trailblazing visions, and leadership in artistic integrity, and soulful guidance. They are my stalwarts. The Actors Studio has been a life altering, powerful institution, brimming with beautiful, and wonderful artists. I embrace it in my heart forever. Rene lives in Los Angeles, CA. I am grateful for this incredibly beautiful, rare gift, we call life,...Vida....,and everyone, and everything in it. I look forward to...NOW... Gracias a Dios.1993 Carlito's Way
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Del Zamora was raised in various locations across the Southwest of the United States of America. His family dates back to the 1500's, and even further back, on the Mescalero Apache side of his family; in what is now known as Lincoln County, New Mexico. Del is a Mescalero Apache/Chicano mix. His great, great, grandmother, Nestorita Lara, who lived to be 114 years old, was painted by the famous Southwest painter, Henrietta Wyeth. The painting, "Dona Nestorita", hangs in the Roswell, New Mexico, City Museum. Del's godfather, was Domingo 'Sunday' Lopez, father to golfer great, Nancy Lopez.
Del attended schools in Roswell, New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Woodland, California, San Francisco, California, Alameda, California, and Los Angeles, California. Del graduated from Leuzinger High School, on the honor roll. A straight 'A' student, all of his school years, he received a full scholarship to UCLA.
However, his father, coerced him into turning down school, and taking a computer technician job. Del took the computer job. He worked in that industry for 4 years, before, deciding to pursue an acting career. Though successful in the computer industry, Del walked away. He drove his brand new Chevrolet Van, to New York City, and attended classes with the great Stella Adler. He studied for a little over a year, then returned to Los Angeles, to pursue an acting career. He lived in his van, with his small dog, Chivo, for 3 years and 5 months. Del refused to do any work, besides acting or crewing, on movies and TV shows. During this time, Del did most of the 94 student films, he has acted in. He crewed in several dozen other student films. He also reapplied to UCLA, and was accepted, with a full scholarship intact. As Del began the transition, to the Motion Picture/Television Department, as a directing student at UCLA; he was cast by English film maker, Alex Cox, in Repo Man (1984). This was Del's film debut, and his breakthrough role. Though Del made some money as an actor, on Repo Man, he did not move out of his van, for another year; and in actuality, was living in his van, with his dog, while Repo Man, was shot.
After that, he was promptly cast in RoboCop (1987), Born in East L.A. (1987), and became a 'go to' Latino/Native American actor. Del has worked on both coasts of the USA, and is bilingual in Spanish and English. Initially a stage actor, he rapidly adapted his skills to the silver screen. He is known as a very versatile, strong actor, who can play a wide range of characters, in drama and comedy. A veteran actor, of over 3 decades, his work in True Blood, as brujo (shaman), Don Bartolo, is proof positive, that Del Zamora, still does top shelf work, well into his 50's. As of 2018, Del has portrayed 263 speaking roles in a 37 year career. A true character actor, who has worked with some of the biggest stars in the World.1984 Repo Man
Lagarto
1984 Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats (TV Series)
Tree Cutter
1986 Sid and Nancy
Mexican Transvestite (uncredited)
1987 RoboCop
Kaplan
1987 Born in East L.A.
What's Happening Boys
1988 Tequila Sunrise
Columbian Cocaine Cowboy (uncredited)
1989 The Fabulous Baker Boys
Man with Cleaver
1992 White Men Can't Jump
Fast Food Counterperson (uncredited)
-1992 In Living Color (TV Series)
Straight Basher- Basic Instank (1992) ... Straight Basher
- Calhoun Tubbs
1993 Man's Best Friend
Rudy's Dad
1994 Midnight Run for Your Life (TV Movie)
Hombre #2
1995 MADtv (TV Series)
Saloon Drunk- Episode #1.7 (1995) ... Saloon Drunk (uncredited)
1997 Face/Off
Janitor (uncredited)
2004 American Family (TV Series)
Roberto- The Brother (2004) ... Roberto
- The Doors to the Past (2004) ... Roberto
- Rogelio T. Ramos was born in Laredo, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Spider-Man 3 (2007), Sex and the City (2008) and Richard III (2007).2007 Spider-Man 3
Emergency Room Doctor (as Rogelio Ramos)
2013 Zombie Night (TV Movie)
Officer Lopez - Actor
- Director
- Producer
Randy grew up on the beaches and baseball fields of southern California and in the mountains and basketball courts of North Carolina as a result of his parents divorce. His father, Ralph, was a high school business teacher and accountant in Escondido. His mother, Joyce, from North Carolina, was a secretary and elementary school teacher. His older brother Perry is an art professor in San Diego. After performing plays in elementary school and high school, Randy was accepted to UCLA where he tried to join the theatre department and baseball team but was rejected from both. He dropped out after one quarter and struck out on his own in Los Angeles. In 1981, he met his acting teacher and mentor, Antony Ponzini. Through Tony, Randy met his future manager, Robert P. Marcucci. The Taylor Hackford film, The Idolmaker, was based on Robert's life as the manager of pop singers Frankie Avalon and Fabian. Bob represented Randy for over 25 years, a relationship that included four series regular jobs for Randy; Acapulco H.E.A.T., Love Boat: The Next Wave, JAG, and First Monday. Randy has done over forty plays in theaters throughout Los Angeles and appeared Off-Broadway in Jose Rivera's "Each Day Dies With Sleep" in 1990 at the famous Circle Rep Theatre, as well as a few off-off Broadway productions. In 2003, he began a successful collaboration with Mexican director Beto Gomez beginning with Punos Rosas in 2005, Saving Private Perez in 2011 and Volando Bajo in 2014. Randy has directed and produced three award winning documentaries; "Testimony: The Maria Guardado Story," about a Salvadoran woman surviving death squads in1980 and her journey to the United States; and two American Indian themed documentaries, "The Thick Dark Fog" and "Badger Creek," which have both aired on PBS. He lives with actress Marilyn Sanabria.1984 Beverly Hills Cop
Bell Hop (as Randy Gallion)- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
Thomas Rosales Jr. was born on 3 February 1948 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Running Scared (2006), Commando (1985) and Speed (1994). He is married to Joyce Johnston. They have two children. He was previously married to Charlene Jones.As an actor:
1978 Every Which Way But Loose
Young Trucker (uncredited)
1980 The Hunter
Bernardo (as Tom Rosales)
1981 Nighthawks
Ripper (as Thomas Rosales)
1982 Voyagers! (TV Series)
Soldier- Bully and Billy (1982) ... Soldier (uncredited)
1982 They Call Me Bruce?
Thug (as Tom Rosales)
1983 Blue Thunder
Thug (as Tom Rosales)
1985 Stand Alone
Cocaine Cowboy #2
1985 Space Rage
Felon #2 (as Tom Rosales)
1985 Commando
Young Guerrilla
1986 Raw Deal
Jesus (as Thomas Rosales)
1986 No Mercy
Man #4
1986 Eye of the Tiger
Jamie's Relative (as Tom Rosales)
1987 The Running Man
Chico (as Tom Rosales Jr.)
1987 La Bamba
Man at Party (uncredited)
1987 Extreme Prejudice
Scarza (uncredited)
1990 Predator 2
El Scorpio Gang Member (uncredited)
1990 Death Warrant
Punk
1990 RoboCop 2
Chet (as Tommy Rosales)
1990 Kindergarten Cop
Street Tough #4 (uncredited)
1991 The Perfect Weapon
Man in Alley
1991 Rush
Wino (as Tom Rosales)
1991 Ricochet
Drug-Dealer (uncredited)
1992 Universal Soldier
Wagner (as Thomas Rosales)
1993 Nowhere to Run
Prisoner (as Thomas Rosales)
1993 Extreme Justice
Chavez (as Tom Rosales)
1993 Last Action Hero
Henchman (uncredited)
1993 Man's Best Friend
Mugger
1994 Speed
Vince (as Tommy Rosales Jr.)
1994 Beverly Hills Cop III
Car Mechanic (uncredited)
1994 The Crow
Sanchez (as Tom Rosales)
1994 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
Prisoner #2 (uncredited)
1994 A Low Down Dirty Shame
Hood who fails Mendoza (uncredited)
1995 Heat
Armoured Truck Driver
1996 Last Man Standing
Ramirez Bodyguard (as Tom Rosales)
1996 Escape from L.A.
Gang Member (uncredited)
1996 Tremors II: Aftershocks (Video)
Oil Worker (as Thomas Rosales)
1997 Face/Off
Prisoner (uncredited)
1997 Con Air
Cindino Gunman #1 (as Thomas Rosales)
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Carter (as Thomas Rosales)
1997 L.A. Confidential
First Mexican
1998 Vampires
Ortega (as Thomas Rosales)
2002 Analyze That
Coyote
2004 Collateral
Ramone
2012 Bad Ass
Bartender (as Tommy Rosales)
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Old Man
As a Stuntman:
1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes (stunts - uncredited)
1974 The Towering Inferno (stunts - uncredited)
1978 Big Wednesday (stunts - uncredited)
1978 Every Which Way But Loose (stunts - uncredited)
1979 Boulevard Nights (stunts)
1979 Walk Proud (stunts)
1980 Borderline (stunts - as Thomas Rosales)
1980 The Hunter (stunts - as Tommy Rosales)
1982 Voyagers! (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)- Bully and Billy (1982) ... (stunts - uncredited)
1983 Scarface (stunts)
1983 Blue Thunder (stunts - uncredited)
1984 Red Dawn (stunts - as Tom Rosales)
1984 Cannonball Run II (stunts)
1984 Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (stunts - as Thomas Rosales)
1985 Commando (stunts)
1985 Fright Night (stuntperson - as Tom Rosales)
1985 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (stunts - as Thomas Rosales)
1986 ¡Three Amigos! (stunts)
1986 Out of Bounds (stunts)
1986 8 Million Ways to Die (stunts - as Tom Rosales)
1987 La Bamba (stunts - as Thomas Rosales)
1987 Extreme Prejudice (stunts - as Tom Rosales)
1987 The Bedroom Window (stunt coordinator)
1987 *batteries not included (stunt coordinator) / (stunts)
1988 Midnight Run (stunts - as Tom Rosales)
1988 License to Drive (stunts)
1988 Two Moon Junction (stunts)
1988 Remote Control (stunts)
1988 They Live (stunts)
1988 Alien Nation (stunts - as Tom Rosales Jr.)
1989 Weekend at Bernie's (stunts)
1989 K-9 (stunts)
1989 One Man Force (stunts - as Tommy Rosales)
1990 The Rookie (stunts)
1990 Predator 2 (stunts - as Tom Rosales Jr.)
1990 Downtown (stunts)
1991 Ricochet (stunts)
1991 Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (stunt player - as Thomas Rosales)
1992 Dracula (stunts - as Tommy Rosales)
1992 Class Act (stunts)
1992 Deep Cover (stunts)
1992 American Me (stunts - as Tom Rosales)
1993 Falling Down (stunts)
1993 Blood In, Blood Out (stunts - as Tommy Rosales Jr.)
1993 Demolition Man (stunts)
1993 Extreme Justice (stunts)
1993 Menace II Society (stunts)
1994 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (stunts)
1994 The Silence of the Hams (stunts - as Tom Rosales)
1993 Street Knight (stunts)
1994 Stargate (stunts - as Tommy Rosales)
1995 Major Payne (stunts - as Tommy Rosales Jr.)
1995 Vampire in Brooklyn (stunts)
1996 Mars Attacks! (stunts)
1996 Last Man Standing (stunts - uncredited)
1996 The Crow: City of Angels (stunts)
1996 Escape from L.A. (stunts)
1996 Tremors II: Aftershocks (Video) (stunts)
1997 Face/Off (stunts - uncredited)
1997 Con Air (stunts - as Tommy Rosales)
1998 Inferno (TV Movie) (stunt performer)
1998 Lethal Weapon 4 (stunts)
1998 Out of Sight (stunts - as Tom Rosales)
1998 City of Angels (stunts)
2001 Planet of the Apes (stunt player)
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (stunts - as Thomas Rosales)
2008 Iron Man (utility stunts - as Thomas Rosales)
2001 Tomcats (stunts - as Tommy Rosales, uncredited)- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Gina Gallego, a second-generation Angeleno, has appeared in over one hundred feature films and television shows. Recently she completed four seasons as Mrs. Hernandez on the CW Channel's ground breaking musical comedy, Crazy Ex Girlfriend, starring Rachel Bloom. Prior to that she was Estella on USA Network's The Shooter starring Ryan Phillippe.
Gina's career spans a diversity of roles. As Ms. Sanchez, the iron-willed attorney in Erin Brokovich, she caves when Julia Roberts offers her a glass of tainted water. Other film highlights include: Disney's top box office performer Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Adam Sandler's successful comedies Anger Management, and Mr. Deeds.
Gina's Television career was kick-started on NBC's prime-time drama Flamingo Road. She spent several years on network soap-operas including Santa Barbara, Rituals, The Bold and the Beautiful, and her last role on daytime television was Judge Lopez on Days of Our Lives. Highlights of her current television roles include NCIS, The Middle, Shameless, Bosch, and Grey's Anatomy as Callie's mom. One of Gina's memorable TV moments was on NBC's hit series, Seinfeld, giving Jerry his first ever on-screen kiss in the classic episode "The Suicide".
Gina is the co-librettist of the new musical, América Tropical (americatropicalmusical), which has won numerous awards and distinctions, including: Finalist for the American Theatre Wing's Jonathan Larson Grant, Semi-finalist at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Alliance for Musical Theatre Conference, Musical Theatre West's New Works New Voices Festival-featured concert reading, winner of the Raise Your Voice Script Competition, (awarded a concert reading by McCoy Rigby Entertainment), and was selected for the Latiné Musical Theatre Lab's Table Read Series, supported by Lin-Manuel Miranda's Family Fund.
Gina was honored with Nosotros' prestigious Golden Eagle Award for her work. While not in front of the camera she is a choral singer who's sung in several choirs, including under the direction of the celebrated conductor, Jeannine Wagner. Gina is an avid tennis player, and loves spending free time tending her flower garden. Married to writer-producer-actor Joel Bailey for the past 40 years, she is the proud mother of their son, Brendan.1982 Voyagers! (TV Series)
Rita Dela Rosa- Bully and Billy (1982) ... Rita Dela Rosa
1983 Deadly Force
Maria
1987 My Demon Lover
Sonia
1990 Rainbow Drive (TV Movie)
Valerie Moreland (uncredited)
1992 Seinfeld (TV Series)
Gina- The Suicide (1992) ... Gina
2002 Minority Report
Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
2003 Anger Management
Bar Waitress
2008 Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Shelter Director- Actor
- Director
- Casting Director
Miguel Sandoval was born on 16 November 1951 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Sharp Objects (2018), Clear and Present Danger (1994) and Jurassic Park (1993). He is married to Linda Sandoval. They have one child.1982 Voyagers! (TV Series)
Ned Dawson- Bully and Billy (1982) ... Ned Dawson (as Michael Sandoval)
1982 Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Emil
1984 Repo Man
Archie (as Michael Sandoval)
1985 Badge of the Assassin (TV Movie)
Francisco Torres (as Michael Sandoval)
1986 Sid and Nancy
Record Company Executive
1986 Howard the Duck
Bar Entertainment Supervisor
1989 Do the Right Thing
Officer Ponte
1991 Ricochet
Vaca
1992 White Sands
FBI Agent Ruiz
1993 Jurassic Park
Juanito Rostagno
1994 Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Hector Vasquez
1994 Clear and Present Danger
Ernesto Escobedo
1995 Get Shorty
Mr. Escobar
2001 Blow
Augusto Oliveras
2001 Wild Iris (TV Movie)
Ramando Galvez
2002 Collateral Damage
Joe Phipps
2003 Kingpin (TV Mini-Series)
Tio Beto- Gimme Shelter (2003) ... Tio Beto
- El Velorio (2003) ... Tio Beto
2003-2004 10-8: Officers on Duty (TV Series)
Captain Otis Briggs
2004 The Batman (TV Series)
Thug #1- The Bat in the Belfry (2004) ... Thug #1 (voice)
- Actor
- Stunts
- Casting Director
Mariano is best known for his part in Eastbound and Down as Rodney "Hammer" Garcia in Season 4.
Mariano Mendoza is former MMA World Champion Fighter, Actor, Stuntman, Veteran and deemed as the WORLD'S STRONGEST LATINO and rated in the top 100 fighters in the WORLD!
His Autobiography "The Untold Story of Mariano Mendoza" was released this last year and is now available to rent and buy on Amazon. He has several current projects he's working on in 2018 and is in post production of "Duel of Legands"(2018), "The Pining"(2018), "Voyeur"(2018), "Compton's Finest"(2017) and is currently filming "Pontius Pilate". Past TV shows and Movies he has appeared on include "Better Call Saul", "Training Day", "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" just to name a few. You can expect to see more and more of Mariano on the big screen and on your TV this year because he is getting hit after hit in and not just in MMA!
Mariano Mendoza was born in Los Angeles, California. He is a U.S Navy Veteran. He is considered the Hispanic version of Debo/Van Damme Martial Artist and. He is the first Hispanic Heavyweight Cage Fighter to fight in the W.V.C in Brazil and Jamaica. He is know as OLEG in the video game "Saints Row 3" He was also featured in the "MMA Supremacy" video game as Mariano "Big Dawg" the boxer. He has numerous world record titles such as Muscle Beach Strong Man 1995 and 1996. He has the World Record at 220 lbs with the Strict Curl and it is undefeated. He has been a stunt coordinator for a scene on the T.V. show "The Mentalist" and featured as a coach in the episode called "Blood Sport". In 2012 he was featured as Junior in the movie "School Dance", with Nick Cannon as the director. With Wilmer Valderrama as his brother in the movie, featuring Kevin Hart, George Lopez and Efren Ramirez.1994 Highlander: The Final Dimension
Sword fighter (uncredited)
2010 Crazy on the Outside
Inmate #3
2011 Horrible Bosses
Bar Patron (uncredited)
2011 Dexter (TV Series)
Lineman Football Player- Those Kinds of Things (2011) ... Lineman Football Player (uncredited)
2013 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)- Chapter 29 (2013) ... Rodney (Hammer) Garcia
- Chapter 28 (2013) ... Rodney 'Hammer' Garcia
- Chapter 27 (2013) ... Rodney 'Hammer' Garcia
- Chapter 26 (2013) ... Rodney 'Hammer' Garcia
- Chapter 25 (2013) ... Rodney 'Hammer' Garcia
- Chapter 23 (2013) ... Rodney 'Hammer' Garcia
- Chapter 22 (2013) ... Rodney 'Hammer' Garcia
- Actor
- Producer
Hector is an American-born actor of Tarahumara Indian, Mexican, and Spanish extraction. He came of age on the streets of Los Angeles, selling oranges and collecting recyclable cans with his Mother. Poverty, gang violence, and drugs colored his life; this led him to incarceration. Despite grappling with the street-life, he enrolled in a community college and found himself jousting a sword on stage in Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing'. He then transferred to USC, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in theatre and received the notable Jack Nicholson Award for Best Actor. Now this kid, who once was known as 'Hector the can collector', is in pursuit of the Hollywood silver screen dream...2005-2006 Mind of Mencia (TV Series)- Carlos Smoov (2006) ... Silvio
- Episode #2.3 (2006) ... Little Puppet
- The Serranos (2006) ... Silvio
- Episode #1.4 (2005) ... Runway Model
2007 Death Sentence
Heco
2010 Crazy on the Outside
Prisoner
2012 The Dark Knight Rises
Gangbanger- Actress
- Producer
Elizabeth De Razzo was raised in Los Angeles, CA and Laredo, Texas, the oldest of three girls. After graduating high school in Laredo, she immediately relocated back to LA and began pursuing her acting career in earnest. She appeared on stage as Estella in "Real Women Have Curves: The Musical," and had featured roles on "The West Wing" and "Six Feet Under." Her first big break was a guest starring role in a 2005 episode of "Cold Case." Elizabeth continued to guest star on television for the next few years, and in 2010 became a recurring guest star on HBO's "Eastbound & Down," playing the beloved role of Maria until the series concluded in late 2013. Elizabeth stayed busy in 2014, traveling to South America to shoot "The 33," a star-studded feature about the Chilean mine collapse in Copiapó, then in 2015 reunited with "Eastbound & Down" co-star Jillian Bell in the Comedy Central series "Idiotsitter", from 2015 thru 2017 Elizabeth also starred in a string of films including the cult hit, "The Greasy Strangler", and in in late 2017 Elizabeth joined STARZ new acclaimed series "Vida." In addition to her busy acting schedule, Elizabeth is also a writer/producer, singer/songwriter, and an avid philanthropist.2010-2013 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)- Chapter 29 (2013) ... Maria
- Chapter 28 (2013) ... Maria
- Chapter 27 (2013) ... Maria
- Chapter 26 (2013) ... Maria
- Chapter 25 (2013) ... Maria
- Chapter 24 (2013) ... Maria
- Chapter 23 (2013) ... Maria
- Chapter 22 (2013) ... Maria
- Chapter 21 (2012) ... Maria
- Chapter 20 (2012) ... Maria
- Chapter 18 (2012) ... Maria
- Chapter 17 (2012) ... Maria
- Chapter 16 (2012) ... Maria
- Chapter 15 (2012) ... Maria
- Chapter 13 (2010) ... Maria
- Chapter 12 (2010) ... Maria
- Chapter 10 (2010) ... Maria
- Chapter 9 (2010) ... Maria
- Chapter 8 (2010) ... Maria
- Chapter 7 (2010) ... Maria