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 was born on 30 October 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Mr. Deeds (2002), Erin Brockovich (2000) and Minority Report (2002). She has been married to Joel Bailey since 2 July 1983. They have one child.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
- Erick was born and raised in Guatemala. As early as 5 years old Erick knew he wanted to be an actor. While growing up in a small village with his grandparents he would reenact scenes from the Soap Operas he had watched with his grandmother the previous night. As a teenager he moved to the United States and got the opportunity to go to college to study business administration. Once in college he enrolled in an intro to acting class and that's where his childhood dream of being an actor was reawakened. After that intro to acting class and with much excitement and fear Erick changed his major to acting. A few years later Erick received his Bachelor's in Fine Arts degree in theater performance from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Before pursuing acting for the camera Erick had the opportunity to perform for the stage. Some of his favorite roles include Valentin in The Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Marmeladov in an original production of Crime & Punishment. Some notable television credits include Eastbound & Down, The Bridge, Back in The Game and Southland.
That combination of excitement and fear Erick felt when switching majors in college would become a recurring theme in his life as an actor.2010 Dexter (TV Series)- First Blood (2010) ... Taxi Driver (as Erick Chavarría)
2010-2012 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)- Chapter 21 (2012) ... Casper
- Chapter 19 (2012) ... Casper
- Chapter 18 (2012) ... Casper
- Chapter 11 (2010) ... Casper
- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Michael Peña was born and raised in Chicago, to Nicolasa, a social worker, and Eleuterio Peña, who worked at a button factory. His parents were originally from Mexico. After graduating from high school, he went to an open casting call for the Peter Bogdanovich feature To Sir, with Love II (1996), and to his surprise, beat out hundreds of other young men for a role. After relocating to Los Angeles Peña quickly booked a succession of roles in features including Star Maps, My Fellow Americans (1996) (opposite Jack Lemmon and James Garner), La Cucaracha (1998) (winner of the Best Picture in the Austin Film Festival), Bellyfruit (1999), and the Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer feature Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). Michael resides in Los Angeles, where he plays bass guitar with his band, plays golf, and boxes for relaxation.2001 Men, Women & Dogs (TV Series)- Pilot (2001) ... Miguel
2002 American Family (TV Series)- Crash Boom Love: Part 2 (2002)
- Crash Boom Love: Part 1 (2002)
2004 Million Dollar Baby
Omar
2004/I Crash
Daniel
2005 Sueño
Jimmy
2006 World Trade Center
Will Jimeno
2007/I Shooter
Nick Memphis
2010 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)
Mr. Cisneros- Chapter 13 (2010) ... Mr. Cisneros
- Chapter 12 (2010) ... Mr. Cisneros
- Chapter 10 (2010) ... Mr. Cisneros
- Chapter 9 (2010) ... Mr. Cisneros
- Chapter 8 (2010) ... Mr. Cisneros
2011 Battle Los Angeles
Joe Rincon
2014 Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez
2014 Frontera
Miguel- Joaquín Cosio was born on 4 October 1962 in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico. He is an actor, known for Quantum of Solace (2008), Hell (2010) and Savages (2012).2008 Quantum of Solace
General Medrano
2010 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)
Hector- Chapter 12 (2010) ... Hector
- Chapter 9 (2010) ... Hector
- Chapter 7 (2010) ... Hector
2013 The Lone Ranger
Jesus
2013 A Night in Old Mexico
Cholo - Actor
- Producer
Francis González is an actor, producer and visual artist from Fajardo, Puerto Rico. He was recognized as a performer from an early age when he received the Jerry Lewis Impersonator Award issued by his elementary school. Gonzalez was studying Microbiology at the University of Puerto Rico when he was discovered by a pageant owner. Francis was titled Mister Puerto Rico Model 2005 and became the first Puerto Rican to acquire the international title of the Mr. Mundial pageant, held in Arequipa, Peru. He switched his focus from modeling to acting and starred in Telemundo's teen soap Zona Y. Francis then moved to Los Angeles and secured guest starring roles in shows like NCIS and Modern Family and played a lead role in Syfy's original movie Dam Sharks! Francis is also known for his commercial success, serving as an actor and model for many recognizable brands such as Budweiser, Toyota and Geico. González is an advocate for children with disabilities and fights for environmental conservation efforts. He has partnered with various charitable organizations including OrangUtan Republik Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy Association and Teleton Guatemala. Francis currently resides in Los Angeles2010 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)- Chapter 8 (2010) ... Discouraged Fan (uncredited)
- Actress
Vida Guerra was born on 19 March 1974 in Havana, Cuba. She is an actress, known for CHIPS (2017), Mercy for Angels (2015) and Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006).2003-2004 Chappelle's Show (TV Series)- Episode #2.3 (2004) ... Stripper (uncredited)
- Episode #1.10 (2003) ... Dancer (uncredited)
2010 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)- Chapter 9 (2010)
2013 Not Another Celebrity Movie
Rosalita- Actor
- Producer
As a native Los Angeleno, Nelson Grande is no stranger to the gravitational pull of the entertainment industry. Growing up in Highland Park where a typical Saturday included witnessing Tarantino shoot Reservoir Dogs or Gregory Nava shoot Mi Familia. At the age 21, Grande took a leap of faith and started pursuing a career as an actor and never looked back. Years later, Grande has been in national and regional commercials and has done guest spots on several TV shows including a recurring role in the critically acclaimed HBO show Eastbound and Down and several episodes on General Hospital. Although he continues to thrive as an actor, he felt the familiar strain many actors experience in Hollywood. He refused to let this deter or distract him from pursuing his career. However, it was the birth of his daughter that served as the spark that ignited his need for a change. The opportunity to create this impact on a local, national and global level came when he and Fanny Veliz founded Avenida Productions a production and consulting company that focuses on empowering the independent filmmaker.2010 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)- Chapter 9 (2010) ... Petrus
- Chapter 8 (2010) ... Petrus
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Eddie 'Piolin' Sotelo is known for The Muppets (2011), Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) and Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012).2008 Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Rafa (voice)
2008 Tecate Premios Deportes 2008 (TV Movie)
Himself- Host
2009 Nuestra Belleza Latina (TV Series)
Himself - Guest Judge L.A.- Castings 2009 (2009) ... Himself - Guest Judge L.A.
2010 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)
Announcer- Chapter 12 (2010) ... Announcer (as Eduardo 'Piolín' Sotelo)
- Chapter 10 (2010) ... Announcer (as Eduardo 'Piolín' Sotelo)
- Chapter 9 (2010) ... Announcer (as Eduardo 'Piolín' Sotelo)
- Chapter 8 (2010) ... Announcer (as Eduardo 'Piolín' Sotelo)
- Chapter 7 (2010) ... Announcer (as Eduardo 'Piolín' Sotelo)
- Actor
- Stunts
Marco Rodriguez is a film, television, and stage actor. Received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California and trained with notable acting coaches, Jeff Corey and Jose Quintero. After a short stint as a teacher in the Lausd, Rodriguez embarked on a professional acting career with his debut as "El Pachuco" in the Mark Taper Forum production of Zoot Suit and then toured Europe with Luis Valdez' Teatro Campesino. While at the Taper, Marco joined the Improvisational Theatre Project (now known as P.l.a.y.) collaborating on the critically acclaimed play School Talk. Other writing projects include the award-winning Espernaza Del Valle for the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (Osap) and Natividad, a solo Christmas play in Spanish. Rodriguez is also a founding member of the East Los Angeles. Classic Theatre, an organization dedicated to exposing disadvantaged youth to classic dramatic literature and the theatrical experience. In 1998, Marco founded Dejando Huellas (Leaving a Mark), a bilingual drama outreach program including coaching, workshops and performance opportunities for the under served Latino population. Since 2007, Marco has also been involved as a lead teaching artist with the acclaimed Los Angeles theatre company, About Productions, and its innovative educational programming that introduces at-risk youth to the importance of writing and the power of communication through artistic expression, facilitated dialogue and live performance. Rodriguez worked also in many films and series Tv in supporting roles.1981 Zoot Suit
Smiley / Ismael Torres
1986 Cobra
Supermarket Killer (as Marco Rodriguez)
1987 Extreme Prejudice
Deputy Cortez
1987 Disorderlies
Luis Montana
1989 Tripwire
El Tigre
1990 Internal Affairs
Demetrio
1990 Maniac Cop 2
Convenience Store Robber (uncredited)
1990 The Rookie
Loco Martinez
1993 Street Knight
Jack Fernandez
1993 Walker, Texas Ranger (TV Series)- Family Matters (1993) ... Agent Escalanti (as Marco Rodriguez)
1994 The Crow
Torres
1996 High School High
Mr. DeMarco
2000 Resurrection Blvd. (TV Series)- Suenos (2000) ... Ortega (as Marco Rodriguez)
2003 A Man Apart
Hondo (as Marco Rodriguez)
2004 Million Dollar Baby
Second at Vegas Fight (as Marco Rodriguez)
2007 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Video Game)
Mercenaries #7 (voice)
2010 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)
Roger Hernandez- Chapter 13 (2010) ... Roger Hernandez
- Chapter 12 (2010) ... Roger Hernandez
- Chapter 10 (2010) ... Roger Hernandez
- Chapter 9 (2010) ... Roger Hernandez
- Chapter 8 (2010) ... Roger Hernandez
- Chapter 7 (2010) ... Roger Hernandez
- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Ana de la Reguera grew up in the tropical state of Veracruz, on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. She began her performance arts studies in the Cultural Institute of Veracruz, then left for Televisa's Center for Artistic Education (CEA) and TV Aztecas' artistic institute (CEFAC) in Mexico City, later taking study with Lisa Robertson and Aaron Spicer in Los Angeles and acting coach Juan 'Carlos Corzza in Spain. In theater she participated in "El Cartero" ("Il Postino") for which she received two awards: one for "Best Actress" from the Association of Theatre Journalists in Mexico and the other for the year's "Most Promising Actress" from the Association of Theatre Critics and Journalists.
De la Reguera's professional career began with her role in the telenovela Azul (1996), followed by Pueblo chico, infierno grande (1997)--for which she received the Heraldo Award for "Best Breakout Female Actress"--and Desencuentro (1997), which was her third telenovela under the direction of the internationally recognized Ernesto Alonso. _"Tentaciones" (1998)_ marked her beginning with powerhouse Argos Comunicación. She was immediately offered roles in _"Destino" (1998)_ and Todo por amor (2000), for which she received "The Golden Palm Award." After that, it was non-stop work for de la Reguera. In 2002 she starred in Cara o Cruz (2001), which was the first telenovela co-produced by Argos Comunicación and Telemundo, made exclusively for the Hispanic audience living in the US. The following year she played María in the telenovela Por tí (2002) for TV Azteca and the mini-series that followed up on Pedro el escamoso (2001), Como Pedro por su casa (2003), which was a co-production between Colombia's Caracol and Telemundo. Additionally, de la Reguera also had the lead role in the Peruvian soap opera Luciana y Nicolás (2003).
De la Reguera's introduction into film began with Por la libre (2000), which earned her two nominations: "El Heraldo de la Revelación Femenina" (Best New Actress) and "Eres Mejor Actriz" (Best Actress). Later she acted in Un secreto de Esperanza (2002) with Oscar nominee Katy Jurado. In 2003 Ana starred in the highly acclaimed comedy Ladies' Night (2003), alongside Ana Claudia Talancón. The movie became the box-office success of the year and won her three major awards: "the Latin America MTV's Favorite Actress Award," the Mexican movie industry Award for Best Actress of the year, "CANACINE," and the "Diosa de Plata (Silver Godess) Award" for Best Supporting Actress (2003).
In 2005 she played the starring role in Gitanas (2004), which aired on Telemundo in the US and now has been seen as far away as Ukraine, Spain and Argentina. In 2006 de la Reguera had the lead in the powerful On the Edge (2006), which earned her her second "Diosa de Plata [Silver Goddess] Award" for best actress. In addition, she also starred in Paraiso Travel (2008), playing the role of Milagros, singing and dancing for the first time in a movie. John Leguizamo and Colombian star Margarita Rosa de Francisco were also in the cast. The film was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival and later released throughout the US and Latin America. That same year Ana received her big break into American cinema when she landed the role of Sister Encarnación in the comedy Nacho Libre (2006). The film by Jared Hess--director of Napoleon Dynamite (2004)--and co-starring Jack Black gave her the opportunity to be seen around the world.
In 2008 she became the new face for Cover Girl worldwide, alongside celebrities like Drew Barrymore, Queen Latifah, Ellen DeGeneres and Rihanna. From there her career received many other impressive endorsements, including campaigns with Pantene, Special K and Flip, Macy's, Coca-Cola (Ciel), Pepsi (Be Light) and Caress, among many others. She began 2010 with a worldwide publicity campaign for Lipton Tea alongside actor Hugh Jackman. Most recently, she did an international campaign with Kahlúa benefiting her hometown of Veracruz, Mexico, left demolished after the resent destruction of Huricaine Karl.
In the action-thriller film Sultanes del Sur (2007), filmed mainly in Argentina, she plays Monica Silvari, a mean and sophisticated bank robber alongside Spanish actors Jordi Mollà and Tony Dalton. In the spring of 2008 Ana began filming Capadocia (2008), an HBO mega-production TV show about the chaotic and miserable life in a women's prison in Mexico. The show aired with record-breaking ratings in Mexico and Latin America, and was released in the US in the fall of 2008 for HBO OLE. Three of the most recognized directors in Latin America participated in this HBO original production: Epigmenio Ibarra, Jorge Aragón and Luis F Peraza. The successful series got three International Emmy nominations for its first season, and this fall marked the opening of "Capadocia"'s second season.
In 2009 she shot Di Di Hollywood (2010) from famed Jamón, Jamón (2000) director Bigas Luna. That same year she went back to the Mexican theatre for six months where she played "Desdemona" in William Shakespeare "Othello". The play was hugely successful in Mexico's renowned Juan Ruiz de Alarcón theater, and she was named "Best Actress" by the Journalist Theatre Association at the annual Bravo Awards and by the ACTP. Later that year she filmed the extremely moving Mexican film El Traspatio (2009), in which she played a cop in an outlaw border city controlled by drug traffickers and killers. Directed by Carlos Carrera (The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002), nominated for an Oscar for "Best Foreign Film"), the picture was chosen to represent Mexico in the 2010 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category, and earned de la Reguera the "Best Actress Award" at the Imagen Awards and the CANACINE Awards, and won the "Silver Plaque" at the Chicago Film Festival.
The beginning of 2010 brought the opening of her Hollywood film Cop Out (2010), co-starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan and directed by Kevin Smith. She played Gabriela, a strong-willed woman with very picante and colorful language, who gets rescued by Willis and Tracy--and gets them in trouble in the process. In that same year brought the release of her film Hidalgo. La historia jamás contada (2010), about the controversial life of Mexico's independence hero, priest Miguel Hidalgo. She plays Hidalgo's second wife and shares credit with Demián Bichir (Weeds (2005), Che: Part One (2008)).
In the US she also had a recurring role on the USA Network's series Royal Pains (2009), and starred in the critically-acclaimed, Will Farrell-produced HBO comedy Eastbound & Down (2009) co-starring Danny McBride as down-and-out baseball player and love interest Kenny Powers. She also had a role in the Jon Favreau-directed Cowboys & Aliens (2011) starring Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Sam Rockwell, produced by Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. The film crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion movie in its story about a lone cowboy leading an uprising against murderous aliens from outer space. Ana also played a nurse in the teen drama Everything, Everything (2017), and in 2021, starred in two action-horror films, Army of the Dead (2021) and The Forever Purge (2021).
As if her busy acting career isn't enough, de la Reguera is also heavily involved with charity work. Most recently she uploaded a video to YouTube in order to help raise awareness for Veracruz, her home state, affected by heavy rains and a devastating Hurricane Karl. In the video she speaks about a variety of options for support and help that victims of the Hurrcane can utilize, and offers methods to make donations. The viral campaign went all over Twitter and other online sites, raising much needed money for the victims of the hurricane. She also founded the organization VeracruzANA AC, which is a philanthropic organization whose mission is to raise funds and build a tourist boulevard of Antigua--something that has been promised by political organizations for years. Antigua is one of the most important and historical communities in Veracruz, and also one of the areas the most damaged by the hurricane. This June marked the culmination of her hard work and the grand Opening ceremony for the touristic boulevard.1997 Mujer, casos de la vida real (TV Series)- El juramento (1997)
- Siempre existe la esperanza (1997)
- Lilia (1997)
- El precio del cariño (1997)
2010 Eastbound & Down (TV Series)
Vida- Chapter 13 (2010) ... Vida
- Chapter 12 (2010) ... Vida
- Chapter 10 (2010) ... Vida
- Chapter 9 (2010) ... Vida
- Chapter 8 (2010) ... Vida
- Chapter 7 (2010) ... Vida
2011 Cowboys & Aliens
Maria (as Ana De La Reguera)- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Fast-talking and feisty-looking John Leguizamo has continued to impress movie audiences with his versatility: he can play sensitive and naïve young men, such as Johnny in Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991); cold-blooded killers like Benny Blanco in Carlito's Way (1993); a heroic Army Green Beret, stopping aerial terrorists in Executive Decision (1996); and drag queen Chi-Chi Rodriguez in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995). Arguably, not since ill-fated actor and comedian Freddie Prinze starred in the smash TV series Chico and the Man (1974) had a youthful Latino personality had such a powerful impact on critics and fans alike.
John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez was born July 22, 1960, in Bogotá, Colombia, to Luz Marina Peláez and Alberto Rudolfo Leguizamo. He was a child when his family emigrated to the United States. He was raised in Queens, New York, attended New York University and studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg for only one day before Strasberg passed away. The extroverted Leguizamo started working the comedy club circuit in New York and first appeared in front of the cameras in an episode of Miami Vice (1984). His first film appearance was a small part in Mixed Blood (1984), and he had minor roles in Casualties of War (1989) and Die Hard 2 (1990) before playing a liquor store thief who shoots Harrison Ford in Regarding Henry (1991). His career really started to soar after his first-rate performance in the independent film Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991) as a nervous young teenager from the Bronx out for a night in brightly lit Manhattan with his buddies, facing the career choice of staying in a supermarket or heading off to college and finding out that the girl he loves from afar isn't quite what he thought she was.
The year 1991 was also memorable for other reasons, as he hit the stage with his show John Leguizamo: Mambo Mouth (1991), in which he portrayed seven different Latino characters. The witty and incisive show was a smash hit and won the Obie and Outer Circle Critics Award, and later was filmed for HBO, where it picked up a CableACE Award. He returned to the stage two years later with another satirical production poking fun at Latino stereotypes titled John Leguizamo: Spic-O-Rama (1993). It played in Chicago and New York, and won the Drama Desk Award and four CableACE Awards.
In 1995 he created and starred in the short-lived TV series House of Buggin' (1995), an all-Latino-cast comedy variety show featuring hilarious sketches and comedic routines. The show scored two Emmy nominations and received positive reviews from critics, but it was canceled after only one season. The gifted Leguizamo was still keeping busy in films, with key appearances in Super Mario Bros. (1993), Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Spawn (1997). In 1998 he made his Broadway debut in John Leguizamo: Freak (1998), a "demi-semi-quasi-pseudo-autobiographical" one-man show, which was filmed for HBO by Spike Lee.
Utilizing his distinctive vocal talents, he next voiced a pesky rat in Doctor Dolittle (1998) before appearing in the dynamic Spike Lee-directed Summer of Sam (1999) as a guilt-ridden womanizer, as the Genie of The Lamp in the exciting Arabian Nights (2000) and as Henri DE Toulouse Lautrec in the visually spectacular Moulin Rouge! (2001). He also voiced Sid in the animated Ice Age (2002), co-starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Collateral Damage (2002) and directed and starred in the boxing film Undefeated (2003). Subsequently, Leguizamo starred in the remake of the John Carpenter hit Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) and George A. Romero's long-awaited fourth "Dead" film, Land of the Dead (2005).
There can be no doubt that the remarkably talented Leguizamo has been a breakthrough performer for the Latino community in mainstream Hollywood, in much the same way that Sidney Poitier crashed through celluloid barriers for African-Americans in the early 1960s. Among his many strengths lies his ability to not take his ethnic background too seriously but also to take pride in his Latino heritage. He has opened many doors for his countrymen. A masterly and accomplished performer, movie audiences await Leguizamo's next exciting performance.1984 Mixed Blood
Macetero
1984 Madonna (Video short)
Friend of Boyfriend (segment "Borderline")
1989 Casualties of War
PFC Antonio Diaz
1990 Die Hard 2
Burke
1991 Hangin' with the Homeboys
Johnny
1991 Out for Justice
Boy in Alley
1993 Carlito's Way
Benny Blanco
1993 Super Mario Bros.
Luigi Mario
1995 House of Buggin' (TV Series)
1996 The Fan
Manny
1996 Executive Decision
Rat
1997 Spawn
Clown / Violator
1998 Doctor Dolittle
Rat #2 (voice)
2002 Collateral Damage
Felix Ramirez
2002 Ice Age
Sid (voice)
2002 Spun
Spider Mike
2005 Land of the Dead
Cholo DeMora
2005 Sueño
Antonio
2008 The Happening
Julian- Actor
- Cinematographer
Angel Ramirez Jr., was born & raised in Spanish Harlem ("El Barrio") New York. This multitalented individual has made his mark in all facets of the entertainment industry. Angel has had success in both his music & film endeavors. It is evident that this charismatic, sultry, Puerto Rican tenor will inevitably become a Latin superstar that will capture the hearts of not only Latin America but also the world at large. Angel's musical aspirations were realized when he became an instrumental member of the platinum recording group "The Barrio Boyzz." It was here that Angel learned how to master his talent. He was not only a crucial part of the harmonious backgrounds, but a lead singer & writer for the group. In fact, a Grammy award-winning artist known as Marc Anthony a dear friend, recorded one of Angel's songs entitled "Te Amare." It was also during this time that Angel & his fellow group members were able to grace the stage & recording studio with the ever-popular Tex-Mex superstar Selena to record a duet entitled "Donde Quiera Que Estes." The Barrio Boyzz became the first Latin group to perform on the popular music television show The Soul Train. They went on to record eight albums & perform on stage with such artist like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, & Michael Bolton to name a few.
Although this platinum recording artist has enjoyed an exciting ride with this quintet, time has come for him to become the next Latin superstar he is destined to become. Aside from his musical accomplishments, Angel also hosted a new talent search show back in 2005 for CBS, "Nueva Estrella Awards" along with the beautiful Jewelz Lopez who was the radio personality of New York City's most popular radio station KTU 103.5 FM. After the taping of The Nueva Estrella show, he was invited to host a new Latin show concept for BET Networks entitled "Pasos Latinos," which won an Emmy Award. He's also had overwhelming success in film, theater, & television. He has landed several roles on major Hollywood feature films such as "Bustin' Loose," "Fort Apache The Bronx," "I Like It Like That," & Spike Lee's, "Do The Right Thing." In addition, Angel has made his mark on American television shows like, "Ryan's Hope," "The City," & "New York Undercover."
Though these are just a few of Angel's credits, it is a clear indication that he acquires the necessary ingredients for the making of a superstar. Angel recently co-wrote a song named "Puro Corazon" with a Grammy award winner named Fernando O. Sorio & two of the previous members of Ny3 a group Angel was a part of two years ago. This song can be found on one of the top grossing reggaeton compilation albums of all times featuring the best of the best in the reggaeton market, such as Daddy Yankee, Tego Calderón, Don Omar, Wisin y Yandel & Evy Queen. He now continues to work on a come back project that will allow him to finish what he started once before. Enabling the world to once again, fall in love with this "Boy From The Barrio," Angel Ramirez Jr..1980 The Dogs of War
Beggar (uncredited)
1981 Wolfen
Wild Boy (uncredited)
1981 Bustin' Loose
Julio (as Ángel Ramírez)
1981 Fort Apache the Bronx
Pregnant Girl's Brother (uncredited)
1984 The Lonely Guy
Gang Member (uncredited)
1985 Get Out of My Room
Illegal Alien (segment "Born In East L.A.") (as Ángel Ramírez)
1987 Enemy Territory
El Mortes Gang Member
1988 Coming to America
Subway Patron (uncredited)
1989 Do the Right Thing
Stevie's Friends (as Ángel Ramírez)
1989 Sea of Love
Detective (uncredited)
1993 Carlito's Way
Club Dancer (uncredited)
1995 House of Buggin' (TV Series)
The Barrio Boyzz- Pilot (1995) ... The Barrio Boyzz (as Ángel Ramírez)
- Actress
- Additional Crew
One tough cookie who can definitely hold her own next to the boys on film and TV, lovely, dark-haired Rachel Ticotin has stepped up to the plate many times in strong-armed femme roles, playing everything from cops and bodyguards to military corporals.
Born on November 1, 1958, and raised in the Bronx, Rachel is of Puerto Rican, Russian-Jewish descent and learned the fine art of discipline at a young age with ballet training at age 8. She made her first stage appearance at age 10 as a Siamese princess in a production of "The King and I" at NYC's City Center Theatre. At age twelve she joined the Ballet Hispanico of New York and went on to work with such famed choreographers as Alvin Ailey, Geoffrey Holder and Anna Sokolow.
Rachel made her film debut at age 20 in a bit role as a gypsy dancer in the King of the Gypsies (1978) starring Eric Roberts. She gained valuable experience in off-Broadway shows and on the other side of the camera as a production assistant for such films as The Wanderers (1979), Dressed to Kill (1980) and Raging Bull (1980).
Rachel earned her big break after being handed the top female role opposite Paul Newman and Edward Asner in the brutal police film Fort Apache the Bronx (1981). Television became a viable forum with the TV pilot For Love and Honor (1983) as Corporal Grace Pavlik. The pilot introduced her to up-and-coming actor David Caruso. They married later that year. Rachel went on to appear in the short-lived series version of For Love and Honor (1983) without Caruso. Other television projects included assertive roles in Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991), Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) and Warden of Red Rock (2001). On the big screen she played tough in Critical Condition (1987), Where the Day Takes You (1992), and Falling Down (1993).
Her best known role is probably the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi blockbuster Total Recall (1990) in which the athletic Rachel has a memorable fisticuffs scene with Sharon Stone. In 1997, Rachel earned an ALMA award for her role as a prison guard in Con Air (1997). Divorced from Caruso after six years in 1989, she later met actor Peter Strauss on the set of the TV movie Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story (1994). They married in 1998. In series drama she joined the cast of Ohara (1987) as a U.S. attorney and played detective in the police drama Crime & Punishment (1993).
A proven talent who is as alluring as she is enduring, Rachel's work has included the popular films Something's Gotta Give (2003) starring Jack Nicholson and Oscar-nominated Diane Keaton, Man on Fire (2004) with Denzel Washington, as well as the recent The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and its sequel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008). She also was part of the critically acclaimed bi-cultural series American Family (2002).
Although gracing such recent films as horror opus The Eye (2008), the romantic crimer The Burning Plain (2008) and the dramatic thriller América (2011), Rachel has focused on TV as of late with guest roles on the revamped "The Outer Limits," as well as "Lost," "Law & Order: LA," "NCIS: Los Angeles," "Homeland," "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Act."1981 Fort Apache the Bronx
Isabella
1987 Critical Condition
Rachel Atwood
1990 Total Recall
Melina
1991 F/X2
Kim Brandon
1991 One Good Cop
Grace
1993 Falling Down
Sandra
1994 Natural Born Killers
Wanda Bisbing (scenes deleted)
1994 Don Juan DeMarco
Doña Inez
1997 Con Air
Guard Sally Bishop
1997 Turbulence
Rachel Taper
2002 American Family (TV Series)
Vangie Gonzalez- The Glass Ceiling (2002) ... Vangie Gonzalez
- The Forgotten War (2002) ... Vangie Gonzalez
- Mexican Revolution (2002) ... Vangie Gonzalez
- Crash Boom Love: Part 2 (2002) ... Vangie Gonzalez
- Crash Boom Love: Part 1 (2002) ... Vangie Gonzalez
- The Sewing Machine (2002) ... Vangie Gonzalez
2008 The Eye
Rosa Martinez- Actress
- Music Department
- Producer
Verónica Castro (born 19 October 1952), is a Mexican actress, singer, producer, former model and presenter. She is the mother of singer Cristian Castro and filmmaker Michel Castro.
She started her career as a television actress, where she met comedian Manuel Valdés, father of her son Cristian Castro, and in fotonovelas and telenovelas while earning her degree in international relations.
Two years later she played the main role in the telenovela version of El derecho de nacer. Because of her expanding fame as a world artist, she started recording her music in different languages and began to tour the world and perform in diverse venues; she also started recording in Italian, English, Portuguese, and Japanese.
In 1986, she performed in the Latin version of "We Are The World." She also released one of her most ambitious albums to date, Simplemente Todo. The top-selling singles from Simplemente Todo were "Oye Tu," the title selection, "Nunca Lo Sabra," and "Macumba." Unlike other artists of the time, however, Castro accompanied her singles with videos, becoming one of the pioneers of the MTV age in Latin America. Even as she recorded the music video "Macumba," she worked in telenovelas in Argentina and Italy.
In 1987, her career was boosted internationally when she played the main character in Rosa salvaje, alongside Guillermo Capetillo and Laura Zapata. The theme song for that telenovela, also named "Rosa salvaje," became one of her biggest hits. As her CD, "Reina de la noche," topped the charts and her soap opera became one of the world's best selling stories to date, she released another #1 single, "Mala noche no."
In 1990 Castro participated in Mi pequeña Soledad alongside Omar Fierro and July Furlong, where she had to play both a 40-year-old victim of rape who became pregnant and later was paralyzed in a car crash, and her 20-year-old daughter, the "Soledad" of the title, who was the product of the rape. Castro recorded the hit song "Mi Pequeña Soledad". The ballad opened new markets and became her theme song. In the same year, she commenced to host the television series, La Movida, which was sung also in Italian and English. After the success of the single a maxi-single and 12" mix were leaked to radio and clubs. In 1993, she starred in the unsuccessful telenovela Valentina with Juan Ferrara and Celia Cruz.1979 Los ricos también lloran (TV Series)
Mariana Villarreal- La tormenta (1979) ... Mariana Villarreal
1981 El derecho de nacer (TV Series)
María Elena- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... María Elena
1986 Chiquita pero picosa
Florinda Benitez / Flor
1988 Mala noche... no! (TV Series)
Herself - Hostess- Juan Gabriel (1988) ... Herself - Hostess
- Rocio Durcal (1988) ... Herself - Hostess
- Caifanes (1988) ... Herself - Hostess
- Soda Stereo (1988) ... Herself - Hostess
- Timbiriche (1988) ... Herself - Hostess
- Guadalupe Pineda (1988) ... Herself - Hostess
- Flans (1988) ... Herself - Hostess
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Gilberto de Anda was born on 17 February 1955 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor and writer, known for Hora marcada (1988), Cambiando el destino (1992) and Policía judicial federal (1987).1977 Dinastía de la muerte
1986 Yo el Ejecutor
1991 La Verdadera Historia de Barmen y Droguin- Yirah Aparicio is known for By Hook or by Crook (1986), AR-15: Comando implacable (1988) and Motín en la cárcel (1986).1986 El Dia de los Albaniles 2
1987 Los Verduleros 2
1988 El Dia de los Albaniles 3
1988 Los Maistros - Actress
- Soundtrack
Charlotte Ayanna was born on 25 September 1976 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is an actress, known for Training Day (2001), Love the Hard Way (2001) and Kate & Leopold (2001).Date of Birth
25 September 1976, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Birth Name
Charlotte Lopez
Changed her last name to Ayanna when she learned that Lopez was the last name of her maternal grandfather, who she discovered abandoned her mother. Ayanna means "blessed" and Charlotte feels she has been blessed. Attended the University of California at Irvine. Moved to Vermont with her mother and siblings in 1977.
Charlotte was an out-of-work actress when Ricky Martin picked her head shot from the hundreds submitted last year for his romantic video.
Her mother was mentally disturbed and lost custody of Charlotte, her brother, and her sister Diana.
Charlotte lived in a group home as a teenager and was adopted at 17 by a Vermont couple. That year, she was reunited with her brother from whom she and her sister Diana were separated in different foster homes as small children.
2002 Spun
Amy
2001 Training Day
Lisa- Damián Alcázar is a Mexican actor, who is best known for portraying Colombian drug lord Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela in the Netflix series Narcos.
Damián Alcázar studied acting first at the National Institute of Fine Arts and at the Theatrical Experimentation Center, then continued at the Faculty of Theater of the Veracruz University, where in later years he would work as a teacher.
He served as an actor for eight years in two theatre companies, alongside the most prestigious directors in Mexico. Under the direction of George Labaudan guest, he appeared on the balcony of Jean Genet.
He has appeared in six foreign films and more than twenty-eight Mexican films. He was awarded the Ariel for Best Actor in 1999 and in 2004, for the tapes Under California: The Time Limit, by Carlos Bolado, and in Crónicas, by Sebastián Cordero. He also won the prize for best actor at the Festival of Valladolid (Spain), for the latter.
He received Ariel for Best Supporting Actor for El anzuelo by Ernesto Rimoch; by Lolo, Francisco Athié, and for the success of Carlos Carrera, The Crime of Father Amaro. Damián has been nominated to receive this same award four other times. He won the award for Best Actor at the Cartagena Film Festival (Colombia) for the film Two Crimes, by Roberto Sneider.
He has also worked on telenovelas, being the most recent Secretos del corazón, produced by Epigmenio Ibarra for TV Azteca.
In April 2013 he was awarded the Honor Prize of the Latin American Film Show of Lleida with José Coronado. Since June 2016, he has been a deputy elected by Morena in the Constitutional Assembly of Mexico City.Voiced Sirius Black in the Spanish dubbed version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
2007 Borderland
Ulises
1989 Romero
Campesino - Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Fernando Allende breaks the mold. Allende, who reigns as the top box office draw in Latin America, is different; he is the first Latin Adonis to enjoy tremendous success in each of today's top entertainment careers film, television, producer, and as a recording artist and entertainer. Born in Mexico City (his father is Mexican, his mother Cuban and grandparents are Spanish and Puerto Rican). Allende started singing folk tunes when he was seven. By the time he was 15, his intense good looks landed him his first staring role in the film, Maria, opposite Tyrone Power's daughter, Taryn. It was the first of 20 films which have brought him 13 awards. A law career, which he originally intended to follow and pursued at Mexico City's LaSalle University, went by the board as more and more acting offers came his way. Before the pull of Hollywood proved irresistible, Allende also starred in hundreds of serial episodes of Spanish dramatic television. He also had a dozen best selling records, gold single, had his own variety specials and won the Hispanic equivalent of the Oscars and the Emmy in the same year. In 1979, presuming his background would provide a good entry to the US entertainment business; Allende cleaned out his savings account and moved to Hollywood. "I thought my background would open doors", he recalls. Nearly two years filled with knocking on an endless succession of doors and hours of acting, speech, yoga, and singing lessons were to eat up all those savings before he got his first acting job this side of the border. But for Fernando, the wait and the sacrifices were worth it when he was selected to star opposite Joanne Woodward in ABC's The Streets of Los Angeles. And the part opened Hollywood's doors. He immediately segued into a pilot (The Phoenix for ABC), his first English speaking film (Heartbreaker), and his US TV series, "Flamingo Road" where he steamed up the screen for a year and a half as Morgan Fairchild's lover. Allende was quickly signed to be a celebrity spokesman for the Milk Advisory Board's all media advertising in English and Spanish. Then he went on to tape 190 hours of a top Hispanic television show plus making his own special, featuring songs from his first RCA album. A highlight in any actor's career came next. Fernando was signed to star in the plum role of George Mellis, the "Golden-Greek" playboy-sadist in CBS his mini-series, Master of the Game, which broke the stereotype and vastly expanded his acting career. Since then his television career has gone form one success to another. He starred opposite Karen Black in HBO's new series The Hitchhiker; co-starred in more episodic television including Murder She Wrote, Hart to Hart, Glitter, and appeared in an unforgettable episode of Miami Vice. Most recently, television audiences have enjoyed his presence in ABC's Murder in Three Acts (with Peter Ustinov and Tony Curtis) and NBC's The Alamo.His father is from Spain, his mother from Cuba and his grandmother was Puerto Rican.
National Mechanics (1972):
Mecánica Nacional (original title)
Young Man in Group
La Virgen de Guadalupe (1976)
Juan Diego- Actress
- Producer
- Composer
Maria Conchita Alonso was born Maria Concepcion Alonso Bustillo on June 29, 1957 in Cienfuegos, Cuba, but raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She was crowned Miss Teenager World in 1971 and later as Miss Distrito Federal became the first runner up in the Miss Venezuela 1975 competition placing later that year in the top seven of the Miss World 1975. She became a popular actress in Latin America, working in ten telenovelas (soap operas) and starred in a quartet of Venezuelan films. She was also a popular singer, and has three Grammy Award nominations.
In 1982, she emigrated to the United States, and made her Hollywood film debut in Paul Mazursky's Moscow on the Hudson (1984), opposite Robin Williams. She also starred in movies such as Touch and Go (1986), Extreme Prejudice (1987), The Running Man (1987), Colors (1988), Vampire's Kiss (1988), Predator 2 (1990) and The House of the Spirits (1993). In 1995, she was playing Aurora/Spider Woman in a Broadway production of "Kiss of the Spider Woman", making her the first South American woman to star on the Great White Way.Date of Birth
29 June 1957, Cienfuegos, Cuba
Birth Name
María Concepción Alonso Bustillo
Nickname
Ambar
Height
5' 6½" (1.69 m)
"Love Maniac" was her first album. It was released on 1979 under the nickname of Ambar. The album was recorded in English and the songs were heavily influenced by Donna Summer and other disco music artists from that era. The record label decided not to use Alonso's picture on the cover for the promo single and the release of the song was surrounded by mystery. The marketing strategy paid off and the song went to become a huge hit, topping the Venezuelan charts in September of that year.
Schooled in Switzerland and Spain
Speaks 4 languages - Spanish, English, French and Italian
She has her own record label Ambar Entertainment, and her own production company called Ambyth Prods.
Miss Distrito Federal 1975
Miss Teen World 1971, Miss Venezuela 1975.
Father: Ricardo Alonso, Mother: Conchita Bustillo, Brothers: Ricardo and Robert Alonso
2005 English as a Second Language
Consuelo Sara
2003 Kingpin (TV mini-series)
Ariela
– The Odd Couple (2003) … Ariela
– French Connection (2003) … Ariela
1997 Gun (TV series)
Marti
– Father John (1997) … Marti
1996 Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School Bus #17 (TV movie)
Marta Caldwell
1993 Roosters
Chata
1990 Predator 2
Leona Cantrell
1988 Colors
Louisa Gomez
1987 The Running Man
Amber Mendez
1987 Extreme Prejudice
Sarita Cisneros
1984 Fear City
Silver (as Maria Conchita)- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. was born on 6 April 1940 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor and producer, known for Licence to Kill (1989), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) and The Mask of Zorro (1998). He was married to Lucía Gómez de Parada. He died on 26 December 2011 in New York City, New York, USA.Date of Birth
6 April 1940, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Date of Death
26 December 2011, New York City, New York, USA (cancer)
Birth Name
Pedro Armendáriz Bohr
Spouse
Ofelia Medina (? - ?) (divorced) 1 child
Trivia
Son of Mexican Actor Icon Pedro Armendáriz.
Both he and his father have played Pancho Villa.
Awarded with the "Mayahuel de plata " in the "Festival Internacional de Cine" in Guadalajara (2006).
Awarded with the "Premio Luis Buñuel" in the "Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca" (2006).
Secretary (1998-2006) and President(since 2006) of the "Comité Coordinador de la Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas".
Has an Architecture degree.
2003 Casa de los babys
Ernesto (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
El Presidente (as Pedro Armendariz)
1993 Tombstone
Priest (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1991/II Diplomatic Immunity
Oswaldo Delgado
1989 Old Gringo
Pancho Villa (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1982 Cosa fácil
Hector Belascoaran Shayne
1980 The Dogs of War
The Captain (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1974 Earthquake
Chavez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1973 The Deadly Trackers
Herrero
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Pepe Carral (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1969 The Undefeated
Escalante (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1968 Guns for San Sebastian
Father Lucas
1967 The Bandits
Priest (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)- Marco Bacuzzi was born on 27 October 1962 in Veracruz, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Borderland (2007), Cuentas claras (1998) and Trece miedos (2007). He was married to Nelly del Castillo, Carmen Roman and Jessica Dorr. He died on 6 June 2017 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.Italian-Mexican.
Speaks three languages: English, Spanish and Italian.
2007 Borderland
Gustavo - Additional Crew
- Director
- Actress
Adriana Barraza was born on 5 March 1956 in Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico. She is a director and actress, known for Babel (2006), Blue Beetle (2023) and Drag Me to Hell (2009). She has been married to Arnaldo Pipke since 29 April 2005. She was previously married to Carlos Valsagna.Barraza is the 3rd Mexican born actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. The first was Katy Jurado (1955) and the second one was Salma Hayek (2003).
Isabel Alvarez
2009 Dragnet
Shaun San Dena
2008 Henry Poole Is Here
Esperanza Martinez
1985-2003 Mujer, casos de la vida real (TV series)
Lupe
2000 Amores Perros
Mama Octavio (Octavio's Mother)- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Born and raised in Mexico City, he studied the violin at the Mozarteum of Salzburg, Austria from the age of 6 and went on to be an accomplished violinist. At 17 he decided to change course and become an actor and eventually graduated from Televisa's prestigious Center for Artistic Education in Mexico. He's won Mexico's prestigious Heraldo Award and the Califas de Oro Award given to the best young actors in Mexico. He's twice been named 'Best Young Actor' by the Eres magazine and has been on the covers of numerous other magazines2005 English as a Second Language
Bolivar De La Cruz- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Rubén Blades was born on 16 July 1948 in Panama City, Panama. He is an actor and composer, known for Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), Color of Night (1994) and The Counselor (2013). He has been married to Luba Mason since 2006. He was previously married to Lisa Lebenzon.Date of Birth
16 July 1948 , Panama City, Panama
Birth Name
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna
Spouse:
Lisa Lebenzon (13 December 1986 - ?) (divorced)
The son of a bongo player turned police detective and a mother who taught piano, Blades grew up with music but studied law at the University of Panama. In 1974, at 26, he landed in New York City with just $100 in his pocket and a dream to make it as a singer.
Was Minister of Tourism in Panama from 2004 until 2009.
He won his first Grammy for the album, "Encenas", and has won 4 more in Latin categories, a Latin Grammy, and one in World Music for the album "Mundo.
Ran for President of Panama as founder and head of the Papa Egoro party in 1994. He came in third behind the two leading Panamanian parties. However, he won a respectable 18% of the vote. His party gained enough seats in the Panamanian Legislature to ensure its continuance and a place in national politics, until it was dissolved in 1999.
2015 Fear the Walking Dead (TV Series)
Daniel Salazar
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Jorge FBI
2003 The Maldonado Miracle (TV Movie)
Cruz
1991 The Super
Marlon (as Ruben Blades)
1990 Predator 2
Danny Archuleta (as Ruben Blades)
1990 The Two Jakes
Michael 'Mickey Nice' Weisskopf
1988 Homeboy
Doctor
1988 The Milagro Beanfield War
Sheriff Bernabe Montoya- Rey Borge is known for Second Chances, The Rookie (2018) and Snowfall (2017). He has been married to Aida I Borge since 25 December 1994. They have three children.2015 Fear the Walking Dead (TV Series)
Neighbor- Not Fade Away (2015) ... Neighbor
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Borrego studied theatre and dance at The University of Incarnate Word; he studied acting at The California Institute of the Arts. In the 1980s he attended an open audition for the TV Series "Fame" where he won the role of "Jesse Velasquez", a role he would have for three years. Borrego, however, would return to the stage appearing in productions at the noted Joseph Papp Theatre in New York City and The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. In addition to standout performances on stage and in films such as "Blood In, Blood Out" and "Follow Me Home", he began Lupita Productions in 1990. Lupita has produced theatrical productions and concerts; additionally, Lupita has produced two 16mm short films: "El Suendo de Simon" (1993) by James Borrego and "Flattime" (1995) by Jimmy Santiago Baca. At home in front of the camera, on stage, or in the producer's seat, Borrego continues to be one of the most versatile and resilient talents of our time.Jesse Borrego is of Mexican and Native American descent. He is a Washeeka/Mescalero Apache Indian
Earned a degree in Performance in 1984 from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
2009 La mission
Rene
2008 Dexter (TV Series)
George King- Do You Take Dexter Morgan? (2008) ... George King
- I Had a Dream (2008) ... George King
- Go Your Own Way (2008) ... George King
- About Last Night (2008) ... George King
- The Damage a Man Can Do (2008) ... George King
2003 The Maldonado Miracle (TV Movie)
Hector Maldonado
1997 Con Air
Francisco Cindino
1993 Mi vida loca
El Duran
1993 Blood In, Blood Out
Cruz
1989 Married with Children (TV Series)
Bruno- Can't Dance, Don't Ask Me (1989) ... Bruno
1989 New York Stories
Reuben Toro (segment "Life Lessons")- Sergio Calderón has worked as a professional actor since 1970. Following his studies at the Instituto Andrés Soler of the Asociación Nacional de Actores in Mexico, he was chosen for his first film, Bridge in the Jungle, based on B. Traven's novel, and starring legendary director/actor John Huston. Thirteen years later, Calderón worked with Huston again, this time under Huston's direction as one of the sinister murderers in the classic Under the Volcano with Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset. In television in this same period, he played the guest stars Malavida Valdése and El Cajón in both of the two season-initial double episodes of the very popular series "The A-Team" with George Peppard and Mr. T.
But principally he is well-respected and widely recognized for all of his long career of some fifty films. Calderón has worked with other outstanding directors besides Huston: Sergio Leone, Ron Howard, Luis Puenzo, R. Mann and many others. Since beginning his career he has worked with actors such as Anthony Quinn (Children of Sánchez), Peter Falk and Alan Arkin (The In-Laws), Robert Mitchum, James Coburn and Rod Steiger (Duck, you Sucker!), Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richard (Le Chevre) and Gregory Peck, Jane Fonda and Jimmy Smits (Old Gringo).
He is perhaps most well known for his role as the first alien, Head on a Stick, in the original blockbuster Men in Black, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. He co-starred with Jones again - along with Cate Blanchett and Aaron Eckhart - in The Missing, and played Captain Villanueva, the Spanish pirate lord in Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End. He also appeared in Little Fockers, the comedy starring Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller, and Barbra Streisand.1989 Blood Red
Perez (as Sergio Calderon)
1997 Men in Black
José
2003/I The Missing
Emiliano
2008 The Ruins
Lead Mayan - Actress
- Producer
- Sound Department
Danielle Camastra is known for The Invitation (2015), English as a Second Language (2005) and Price of Glory (2000).2005 English as a Second Language
Lola Sara
2002 King Rikki
Margarita Salcido- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Elpidia Carrillo was born on 16 August 1961 in Paracuaro, Michoacan, Mexico. She is an actress and producer, known for Predator (1987), Salvador (1986) and Nine Lives (2005).Is perhaps best known to American audiences for the role of Anna in Predator (1987).
1982 The Border
Maria
1983 Beyond the Limit
Clara
1983 Under Fire
Sandinista
1986 Salvador
María (as Elpedia Carrillo)
1986 Let's Get Harry
Veronica
1987 Predator
Anna
1990 Predator 2
Anna
2003 Kingpin (TV mini-series)
Lupita
– Black Magic Woman (2003) … Lupita
– El Velorio (2003) … Lupita
2007 Tortilla Heaven
Hermenegilda ”- Tonita Castro was born on 15 January 1953 in Jalisco, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), Funny People (2009) and The Book of Life (2014). She died on 8 May 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.2012 Bad Ass
Juanita Vega
2010 Dexter (TV series)
Venezuelan Woman
– Practically Perfect (2010) … Venezuelan Woman
2005 English as a Second Language
Manuela - Actress
- Additional Crew
Miriam Colon was born on 20 August 1936 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She was an actress, known for Scarface (1983), Sabrina (1995) and Goal! The Dream Begins (2005). She was married to Fred Valle, George Paul Edgar and ???. She died on 3 March 2017 in New York City, New York, USA.1961 One-Eyed Jacks
Redhead
1961 The Outsider
Anita Goode
1966 The Appaloosa
Ana
1967 The Virginian (TV series)
Eva Talbot
– The Reckoning (1967) … Eva Talbot
1974 Sanford and Son (TV series)
Carlotta
– Julio and Sister and Nephew (1974) … Carlotta
1983 Scarface
Mama Montana
2000 For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (TV movie)
Founder of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City.
Was a close and dear friend of legendary Cuban singer La Lupe. When she passed away, Colon provided a sizable amount of the funds needed to purchase her headstone.- Argentinian leading lady Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges was one of three siblings, born in Buenos Aires to a French father and Italian mother. When she was five years of age, her father, a publisher, fled with his family to Montevideo, Uruguay, where they went on to live for several years in somewhat reduced circumstances. According to one of two conflicting stories, her father had gotten into "into conflict with a criminal gang". According to another, he may have fallen foul of the ruling political elite. Whatever the case, both parents died prematurely in what was possibly a suicide pact (in their car of carbon monoxide poisoning) by the time Linda was 13.
Educated at the Conservatoria Franklin in Uruguay, she studied voice and piano. A brief marriage to the Argentinian actor Tito Gómez ended in an annulment after just five days and Linda briefly toyed with the idea of entering a convent (as had several of her aunts). Fate, of course, intervened. While vacationing in Mexico with her older brother, she was 'discovered' by the film producer and director Miguel Alemán Velasco, who also happened to be the son of the country's ruling president. Signed under contract, she adopted the moniker Linda Cristal and made several Spanish language films which soon established her as one of Mexico's rising stars. Conscious of her potential and hoping to break into Hollywood, she decided to learn English as her fourth language (already fluent in Spanish, French and Italian) and subsequently made her American film debut with a small role in the Dana Andrews western Comanche (1956). A dispute over the non-payment of her wages and a car accident in 1956 then led to a brief hiatus in her career.
Fast forward three years and a bit of publicity (she was named "Motion Picture Sweater Queen" in 1958) and Linda was lured back to Hollywood by Universal to again hit the saddle in a couple of back-to-back minor westerns, The Last of the Fast Guns (1958) and The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958). In between attempts to break free from typecasting as decorative Latinas (The Pharaohs' Woman (1960), Panic in the City (1968)) -- a metamorphosis which never happened -- she at least got herself noticed by some high profile people in the business (ie. John Wayne) and was able to thus secure roles in better productions like The Alamo (1960) and Two Rode Together (1961). While her motion picture career was at an impasse, she learned of producer David Dortort casting for the part of Victoria Montoya in the upcoming TV series The High Chaparral (1967). Invited to an audition, she found the set script as too saccharine and bland. Audaciously improvising, she re-imagined her character as more tempestuous, resourceful and proud, later saying in an interview that she knew the producers "were looking for a heroine with fire and spunk". Having secured the coveted role, she made it her own for four seasons (1967-71), ultimately winning two Primetime Emmy nominations and netting her the Golden Globe Award in 1970 as Best Actress in a TV Drama.
After High Chaparral ceased production in 1971, Linda made guest appearances in a handful of TV shows and played a Mexican migrant worker and union leader in Charles Bronson's robust action film Mr. Majestyk (1974). She later worked for some time as a realtor, presided over her own import/export business and invested wisely to become financially very well-off. She made a final comeback to acting as the mistress of a mob boss in the daytime soap General Hospital (1963), eventually calling it quits in 1988. Linda spent her remaining years between residences in Beverly Hills, Palm Springs and Buenos Aires and passed away at her Beverly Hills home on June 27 2020 at the age of 89.1974 Mr. Majestyk
Nancy Chavez
1968 Panic in the City
Dr.
1960 The Alamo
Flaca - Actor
- Composer
- Producer
Beto Cuevas was born on 12 September 1967 in Santiago de Chile, Metropolitan Region, Chile. He is an actor and composer, known for Borderland (2007), Crazy/Beautiful (2001) and La Ley: Aquí (2000). He has been married to Estela Mora since 5 January 2002. They have one child.He speaks Spanish, French and English very fluidly, and with his band La Ley sings some songs in English (I.L.U, The corridor, solitaryman, Rythm valentine) and French (deuxieme fois, Krazyworld).
Moved to Canada when Pinochet Chilean dictatorship began. He and his family lived in Venezuela too.
Lived with Estela Mora (Argentinian former model) since 1989. Married in 2001 by the Mapuche rite (made in Chile) Divorced in 2007.
2007 Borderland (writer: "La Frontera" / performer: "La Frontera")
2007 Borderland
Santillan- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Actor, writer, director and producer, Eugenio Derbez has a degree in Film Directing from the Mexican Institute of Cinematography and Theater, as well as a degree in Acting from Televisa's Acting School. He has also studied and is trained in the arts of Dance, Music and Singing, and still today he continues prepping himself in L.A. and in New York City. His latest feature film "Instructions Not Included" became the most successful Spanish-language film ever in the US and worldwide, and broke numerous box office records everywhere, earning over $100M. Variety recently recognized him as the "#1 most influential Hispanic male in the world".
Eugenio is the star, writer, director and producer of some of the most popular TV shows including "Al Derecho y al Derbez", "XHDRBZ" and "La Familia P.Luche" which ran from 1994-2012 and is one of Univision's longest running and most successful sitcoms ever. Reruns continue to air every week in Mexico and all over Latin America, and in the US on Univision.
Eugenio also broke through to English-speaking audiences as a star on the CBS sitcom "¡ROB!" and on Broadway in the play "Latinologues" that ran at the Helen Hayes Theater.
As a film actor, Eugenio has appeared in a number of successful and critically acclaimed films including "Sangre de mi Sangre", which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2007, the indie smash hit "Under the Same Moon" ("La Misma Luna"), Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill", and "Girl in Progress" with Eva Mendes. Eugenio just wrapped shooting "Geostorm", directed by writer and producer Dean Devlin ("Independence Day"), and voices the role of "Rico" in the upcoming animated feature "Underdogs"
Eugenio resides in Los Angeles, where he just opened his TV and film production company 3Pas Studios, which has a features first look deal with Lionsgate and Pantelion Films, and a first look TV deal with NBC Universal. REPLACE WITH: Actor, writer, director, producer, and philanthropist Eugenio Derbez is one of the most influential creative forces in Latin America, and is the most recognized and actor among the Spanish-speaking population in the U.S.
Having launched his career with a string of the highest rated comedy shows on Televisa and Univision, Derbez segued into movies where he has become the most successful Latino leading man in the U.S., starring in the two highest grossing Latino live-action films of all time, "Instructions Not Included" and "How to be a Latin Lover." Variety recently named him the #1 most influential Hispanic male in the world, and Expansión named him the #1 social media influencer in Mexico due to his more than 28 million followers across all social media.
On April 2018, Derbez will hit the big screen in the MGM/Pantelion feature "Overboard," a gender swapping re-imagining of the classic 1980's romantic comedy, starring alongside Anna Faris, Eva Longoria and Mel Rodriguez. The film is written by Rob Greenberg and Bob Fisher, and was directed by Rob Greenber. Bob Fisher produces alongside Derbez and producing partner Ben Odell under their 3Pas Studios banner.
Derbez also stars in Disney's upcoming "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" also starring Helen Mirren, Keira Knightly and Morgan Freeman, directed by Lasse Hallström, which premieres in December 2018. He will also be seen in Spanish-language films "El Complot Mongol" directed by Sebastian del Amo and "Rock n' Cola" directed by Jorge Ulloa.
Derbez starred in the Lionsgate/Pantelion feature "How to Be a Latin Lover" alongside Salma Hayek, Rob Lowe, Kristen Bell, Raquel Welch, Rob Riggle, Linda Lavin and Rob Huebel. The film was written by Chris Spain and Jon Zack and directed by Ken Marino with Derbez producing along with his producing partner Benjamin Odell. The film opened in the US to 12M debut, breaking Lionsgate's Pantelion Films's box office record for highest opening weekend, and debuted in #1 in Mexico, holding this position for several weeks and defeating big budget summer blockbusters Guardians of the Galaxy, Alien Covenant and King Arthur. It made over 60M USD worldwide.
Derbez made his U.S. crossover with "Instructions Not Included" which he directed, co-wrote and starred in. It became the most successful Spanish-language film ever in the U.S. and worldwide, and broke numerous box office records, earning over $100M.
Derbez also starred in Sony's, "Miracles From Heaven," opposite Jennifer Gardner (directed by Patricia Riggen), and "Geostorm," directed by Dean Devlin and starring Gerard Butler.
Derbez has appeared in a number of successful and critically acclaimed films including "Sangre de mi Sangre," which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2007; the indie smash hit, "Under the Same Moon" ("La Misma Luna"); Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill"; and "Girl In Progress," with Eva Mendes. Derbez also starred in the CBS sitcom "Rob!" and on Broadway in "Latinologues" at the Helen Hayes Theater.
Prior to his transition to U.S, Derbez was the single most influential comedy TV actor and producer. He was the star, writer, director and producer of some of the most popular Spanish language TV shows of all time including "Al Derecho y Al Derbez", "XHDRBZ", and "La Familia P. Luche."
Derbez has consolidated his place in Hollywood history. On March 9, 2016, Derbez was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, becoming the 88th Latino performer to receive the honor.
Derbez resides in Los Angeles. His TV and film production company 3Pas Studios has a first look features deal with Lionsgate / Pantelion Films.Date of Birth
2 September 1962, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Birth Name
Eugenio González Derbez
Height
5' 10½" (1.79 m)
Spouse
Victoria Ruffo (? - ?) (divorced) 1 child
1993-1995 Al derecho y al derbez (TV series)
Various
1999 Derbez en cuando (TV series)
2003-2007 XHDRbZ (TV series)
2008 Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Store Owner
2002-2010 La familia P. Luche (TV series)
Ludovico P. Luche
2011 Jack and Jill
Felipe/Felipe's Grandma
2012 Girl in Progress
Mission Impossible
Owns and races his own Formula One race cars.
Does the voice of Donkey of ¨Shrek¨ and ¨Shrek 2¨ in Spanish. Also, does the voice of Mushu on ¨Mulan¨ in Spanish.- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Her father is of Lebanese descent and her mother is of Mexican/Spanish ancestry. After having seen Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) in a local movie theater, she decided she wanted to become an actress. At age 12, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana. After attending Mexico City's prestigious university Universidad Iberoamericana, she felt ready to pursue acting seriously.
She soon landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a hugely successful soap opera which earned her the star status in her native Mexico. However, anxious to make films and to explore her talent as well as passion, she left both Teresa (1989) and Mexico in 1991. Heartbroken fans spread rumors that she was having a secret affair with Mexico's president and left to escape his wife's wrath. She made her way to Los Angeles. She approached Hollywood with naive enthusiasm and quickly learned that Latina actresses were typecast as the mistress maid or local prostitute. By late 1992, she had landed only small roles. She appeared on Street Justice (1991), The Sinbad Show (1993), Nurses (1991), and as a sexy maid on Dream On (1990). She also had only one line in My Crazy Life (1993). Feeling under-appreciated by Anglo filmmakers, she vented her frustrations on Paul Rodriguez's late-night Spanish-language talk show.
Robert Rodriguez and his wife Elizabeth Avellan happened to be watching and were immediately smitten with her. He soon gave her big break -- to star opposite Antonio Banderas in the cult classic Desperado (1995), bringing her into Hollywood prominence. The moviegoers were as dazzled with her as he had been. Afterwards, she was cast again by Rodriguez to star in the cult classic From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). Her first star billing came later that year with Fools Rush In (1997) opposite Matthew Perry. It was a modest hit and her star continued to rise in both commercial and films such as Breaking Up (1997) with an unknown Russell Crowe, 54 (1998), Dogma (1999) and In the Time of the Butterflies (2001), the small artistic film which won her an ALMA award as best actress and the summer blockbuster Wild Wild West (1999). Her production company Ventanarosa produced the Mexican feature film El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999), which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival and selected as Mexico's official Oscar entry for best foreign film.
The new millennium started out quietly as she prepared to produce and star in her dream role of Frida Kahlo, the legendary Mexican painter whom she had been admiring her entire life and whose story she wanted to bring to the big screen ever since she arrived in Hollywood. Frida (2002) was full of passion and enthusiasm, with performances from her and Alfred Molina as Kahlo's cheating husband Diego Rivera. It also featured an entourage of stars such as Antonio Banderas, Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton and Valeria Golino.
It was a box office hit and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best actress for Hayek. It won awards for make-up and score by Elliot Goldenthal. Later that year, she expanded her horizons, directing The Maldonado Miracle (2003), which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003, she starred in the finale of Rodriguez's Desperado trilogy Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), again opposite Banderas. She also starred in After the Sunset (2004) opposite Pierce Brosnan, and Ask the Dust (2006) opposite Colin Farrell. She then starred in Bandidas (2006), which also featured Penélope Cruz, and Lonely Hearts (2006) opposite Jared Leto.1995 Midaq Alley
Alma- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Higareda was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, the daughter of actress Martha Cervantes and therapist and artist Jose Luis Higareda, and sister of actress Miriam Higareda. She began acting on stage at a very early age, along with dancing jazz, flamenco, tap and folklore. At 14, she moved to Mexico City from her native Tabasco to pursue an acting career. Her debut was in theater participating in various plays such as "Little Women" "Don Juan" among others.
Being an advanced student, she entered college several years early at the age of 15; studying Communications at El Tecnologico de Monterrey. She would attend college in the mornings while going to acting school in the evenings and performing in theater on the weekends. A year later, her mother and sister moved to Mexico City and attended acting school with her.
She had her first TV debut as an anchor hostess in The Disney Channel's ''Zapping Zone'' a 2 hour life show of fun sketches and adventurous exploring. Soon after, Martha had her own extreme sports segments in the show.
She was only 16 when filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron came to Mexico City auditioning for "Y tu Mama tambien", Martha got the part of Cecilia Huerta, Gael Garcia's girlfriend in the film, but being underage and due to the full on nudity in the movie she was not able to do the role. Cuaron encouraged her to keep pursuing her acting career and following his advice soon after she changed her major from Communications to the Performing Arts.
In 2002, Higareda had her first leading role in the movie ''Amar te duele" "Love hurts", directed by Fernando Sariñana, in which she shares credits with Luis Fernando Peña and Alfonso Herrera. The movie quickly became a box office hit. And launched Martha's career giving her the nickname "The Mexican Sweetheart". She received The Silver Goddess award for her performance as female lead and the MTV movies favorite actress award.
In 2003, she was offered the lead in a Mexican TV show "Enamorate" in TV Azteca. But Higareda's passion was in making movies. Higareda returned with the movie ''Siete Días'' next to Jaime Camil, which turned out to be another box office hit. She worked with Carlos Carrera (El crimen del Padre Amaro) in "Sex, love and other perversions" winning another Silver Goddess Award. And that same year she was nominated as best supporting actress for the Mexican Academy Awards for her role in ''Fuera del Cielo'', In 2007, she came with her latest production ''Niñas Mal'', directed by Fernando Sariñana where she shared credits with Camila Sodi and Ximena Sariñana The movie produced by Columbia Pictures was a huge success in which Higareda portrayed a stubborn yet sweet punk, Adela, and her unusual haircut and fashion statement quickly became a trend in Mexican teenagers.
She booked her first American movie in 2007 ''Borderland'' where she shared credits with Sean Austin and Beto Cuevas produced by Lionsgate. The movie was screening in the American Film Market when an agent approached her. He introduced Martha to Craig Shapiro, who to this day represents Higareda at ICM Partners. Shapiro convinced Martha to move to LA. So in 2008, she moved to Hollywood to audition and study script writing: "I'm not the type of actress who sits there to wait for the phone call, I love the creating process and I need to keep myself busy, so I studied script writing, first to know how to choose my projects but most importantly because writing had always been a big passion in my life. So when I'm not acting, for sure I'm writing a script". She booked her first TV show directed by Stephen Frears but the show was canceled due to the writers' strike.
In 2008, she worked in the film ''Street Kings'', as Keanu Reeves love interest, along with Hugh Laurie, Cris Evans and Forest Whitaker. The film was directed by David Ayer.
She went back to her native country with three finished scripts and at the age of 25 she wrote and produced her first independent film "Te presento a Laura" The movie was in the top ten films in box-office for 10 consecutive weeks. In 2010, she appeared in the prequel to the crime/action film ''Smokin' Aces'', as a deadly female assassin. In 2012, she shot ''Hello Herman'' with Norman Reedus as an American reporter. And in "Lies in Plain Sight" as the leading visually impaired woman trying to solve the murder of her sister, winning the Image foundation Award for her performance.
In 2014, she wrote, produced and starred in "Casese Quien Pueda" (Marry me if you can) directed by Marco Polo Constandse and produced by Martha and Miri Higareda and Alejandra Cardenas. The movie quickly became the second biggest box office record of its time. This caught the attention of the American Studios. "I wanted not only to be in movies, but to know the guts of the industry, so I went to find the investors, and was involved in every part of the creative process. Making movies it's all a team effort, so if you surround yourself with the best people you learn from them and if you can also give an opportunity to those whom you believe in their talent, magical things can happen, yes the seed of the idea it's the script but the trunk and the branches is combining everyone else's talents"
She played Amparo in the mini series "Carlos" directed by french awarded director Olivier Assayas with Edgar Ramirez playing Ilich the terrorist. She worked in the Disney movie McFarland USA with director Nikki Caro starring Kevin Costner, Maria Bello and Chris Pratts.
Martha has successfully combined her acting, writing and producing careers. In 2016, she starred and produced "No Manches Frida" with Edward Allen and Mauricio Arguelles. From Patnelion, Lionsgate, Videocine and Constantin Films, "No Manches Frida" was another box office hit, where Higareda plays shy yet passionate Miss Lucy who falls in love with a Criminal (Omar Chaparro). Due to their longstanding friendship, she and Chaparro had wonderful chemistry and it was Martha who went to the Studio pitching Chaparro for the role. The low budget film made 11.8 million dollars in Mexico and 11.5 million dollars in the US.
Higareda produced with Miguel Mier, Jimena Rodriguez, Bernardo Rugama the box office success and Mexican adaptation of "3 idiots" A story about following your true passion, this subject has always interested Higareda as she has toured around her country giving inspirational yet grounding talks to teenagers.
Higareda's newest project, "Altered Carbon," is a hard-boiled cyberpunk science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan brought to the screen by Netflix and Skydance Studios. Opposite Joel Kinnaman who portrays Envoy Takeshi Kovacs, Higareda plays the female counterpart, detective Kristin Ortega. Miguel Sapochnik directs the first episode. "Altered Carbon" was met with mildly positive reviews from critics, receiving a 64% on Rotten Tomatoes. However, fan reception was extremely positive with a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8.1 on Metacritic, making Higareda's debut in American television a relative success.2007 Borderland
Valeria- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Sal Lopez grew up in a bilingual home in South Central Los Angeles. He is the second of eight boys born to immigrant parents and attended public schools. He is a founding member of The Latino Theater Company and has co-created theater with the company for over 38 years. A veteran actor he has worked with numerous oscar nominated actors and directors. He is married with two children and resides in Los Angeles.2008 Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Ring Announcer (as Sal López)
2005 English as a Second Language
Pepe
2004 El padrino
Loco
2004 Paparazzi
Mexican Man
2003 Tremors (TV series)
Deputy Manny Garcia
– A Little Paranoia Among the Friends (2003) … Deputy Manny Garcia
2002 American Family (TV series)
Beto
– Pilot (2002) … Beto
1997 Selena
Juan Luis
1993 Mr. Jones
Henry
1993 Return of the Living Dead III
Felipe
1992 American Me
Pedro Santana
1987 Born in East L.A.
What's Happening Boys
1987 Full Metal Jacket
T.H.E. Rock
1984 The Glitter Dome (TV movie)
Chuey Verdugio
1981 Zoot Suit
Hobo
Height:
5' 7" (1.70 m)- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Angélica María is perhaps the only Mexican actress who has successfully made the transition from child star to living legend. Her career began when she was only four-years-old. She was barely a teenager when she played the leading role in the Mexican version of the play The Bad Seed. She was awarded for her outstanding performance, playing a cute serial-killer girl. After that, she began a successful career as pop singer. From 1962 to her marriage, in 1975, she was know as "The girlfriend of the youth" and "The girlfriend of America" (the continent, not the country). She made a lot of rock n' roll films with costars Enrique Guzmán, César Costa and Alberto Vázquez, becoming a sort of Mexican Doris Day, Suzanne Pleshette and Sandra Dee, together in the same virginal body. On 1967, she went psychedelic and made a film which may be her best: Cinco de chocolate y uno de fresa (1967). Playing a sweet nun who eats mushrooms and becomes a sort of subversive wonder-woman, Angélica came on age and became hype without betraying her popsicle image. The 70s were the years of the telenovelas (Mexican soap operas) and Angélica María changed again. She was the young lady in numberless love stories and conquered the hearts of a generation of housewives who became faithful fans of her. She switched easily between TV and musical theater (she was Gigi and Woman of the Year) but practically retired from movie acting. She returned to the screen on mid 80s but nothing happened. She closely watched her daughter's career in show business (as her own mother closely watched hers) and returned to TV in mid 90s, portraying mothers and other mature roles. Nowadays, she combines TV acting with musical theater performing. Angélica María's only marriage, to singer Raúl Vale, ended in divorce after some years. She hasn't married again. Maybe she wants to be the eternal girlfriend of a generation of Mexicans.Entre Monjas Anda El Diablo (1973)
"Maria"- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Sara Montiel was born in the village of Campo de Criptana, province of Ciudad Real, in the region of Castille-La Mancha, Spain. Her parents were Isidoro Abad, a peasant, and Maria Vicenta Fernández, a door-to-door beautician. The future star was christened Maria Antonia Alejandra Abad Fernández. Barely in her teens, she won a beauty and talent contest held by Cifesa, the most influential Spanish film studio of that era. She was promptly signed to a movie contract and in 1944 made her debut playing a teenager in Te quiero para mí (1944), credited in the cast as "Maria Alejandra". By the end of 1944 she was given the starring role in Empezó en boda (1944), which introduced her with a more adult image and a new name: Sara Montiel.
In the next four years she appeared in 14 films, including her first international success Locura de amor (1948), which led to a long term-contract in Mexico. She quickly established herself as one of the most popular film actors of the decade. starring in over a dozen films between 1950 and 1954. Hollywood came calling and she was formally introduced to American moviegoers in Vera Cruz (1954), playing Gary Cooper's love interest. Later she worked at Warner Bros. in Serenade (1956) with Mario Lanza, directed by Anthony Mann, who became her first husband. After starring in Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow (1957) with Rod Steiger, Sarita shot El último cuplé (1957) ("The Last Song") in Spain, a musical production that turned out to be the biggest box-office success in Spain's film history. It played for over a year in the same theaters in which it opened. A similar reaction followed in Western Europe and Latin America. Sarita Montiel had become the most popular actress-singer of 1957 and a national treasure for Spain.
The unprecedented success of "El Último Cuplé" threw a wrench into her Hollywood career, as she was offered a multimillion-dollar contract to star in four films in Europe. Her next vehicle, La violetera (1958) ("The Violet Peddler"), confirmed Sara's popularity and broke the box-office records set by the previous movie. The theme song from "La Violetera" became Montiel's signature song. The soundtrack albums from both films reportedly outsold Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra in the world market. From then on, Sarita would combine the making of films with the recording of highly successful albums and live concerts in four continents. By 1962 she had become a legend to millions of fans worldwide, reaching markets that had previously been uncharted territory for Spanish cinema. Among her many blockbusters of the 1960s were Mi último tango (1960), Pecado de amor (1961), La bella Lola (1962), La reina del Chantecler (1962) and Esa mujer (1969).
However, by the 1970s her interest in films diminished, due largely to the almost pornographic turn of Spanish films in the late-Francisco Franco era when censorship was abolished and she retired from films in 1974. Her activities turned mainly to recording and stage work, and she achieved uncontested successes with her stage shows "Sara en Persona" (1970-73), "Saritísima" (1974-75), "Increible Sara" (1977-78), "Super Sara Show"(1979-80), "Doña Sara de La Mancha" (1981-82), "Taxi Vamos Al Victoria" (1983-84), "Nostalgia" (1985-86), "Sara, Siempre Sara" (1987-88) and others.
In the 1990s Sara surprised everyone by branching out into television: Sara y punto (1990), a mini-series of seven one-hour episodes, included a serialized biography of the star, many popular guests (including Luciano Pavarotti and Charles Aznavour, among others) and Miss Montiel singing her greatest hits in addition to new songs written especially for her. Next came Ven al Paralelo (1992), taped in a Barcelona theater where Montiel hosted,sang and acted in comedy sketches in front of a live audience.
It is quite impossible to cover here all the awards Sara Montiel has won in her long successful career but we must mention the "Premio del Sindicato" (at that time Spain's equivalent of the Oscar) for best actress, won two years in a row for her performances in "El Último Cuplé" and "La Violetera". In 1972 she was proclaimed an honorary citizen of Los Angeles by Mayor Sam Yorty and was given the gold key to the city. Similarly she has been awarded the gold keys of New York, Miami and Chicago. In 1981 she received Israel's most prestigious honor, the Ben Guiron Award and in 1983 she was awarded France's Legion of Honor medal, after a retrospective of her career ran at the Autumn Film Festival in Paris. In 1986 "Nosotros", a Hollywood-based Hispanic actors advocacy organization founded by Ricardo Montalban, gave her its Golden Eagle Award for life achievement. The trophy was presented to Sarita by her "Vera Cruz" costar-producer Burt Lancaster in an emotional reunion that triggered a standing ovation from all their Hollywood peers witnessing the event. In 1997 she was awarded the "Gold Medal", also a life achievement recognition, given--rarely0--by Spain's Academy of Arts and Sciences. The two-hour ceremony was beamed live by national television. In 2008 Sara returned to her hometown to unveil a sculpture with her image at the new Sara Montiel Park. A nearby avenue was also named after her and there was at the same time a dedication ceremony of her newly renovated museum, located inside a 16th-century windmill. In addition, the government placed a commemorative plaque on the house where she was born.
Sara Montiel's private life has also been a large part of her legend. After divorcing Anthony Mann in 1963, she married three more times (Vicente Ramirez Olalla 1964-1978; Jose Tous 1979-1992; Antonio Hernandez 2002-2004). Before, during and after these marriages she had countless affairs, among them Nobel prize-winning scientist Severo Ochoa and Italian actor Giancarlo Del Duca. Unable to have children, she adopted two during her marriage to Jose Tous: Thais (born in 1979) and Zeus (born 1983). In 2000 she published her autobiography, which became a best seller. Undaunted by the passage of time and ignoring critics who accused her of mishandling her legendary image, Sara Montiel continued living and working at a hectic pace. She kept touring with her one woman show and making guests appearances on television. In 2009 she won a new generation of fans when she recorded "Absolutamente," an outrageous duet with Fangoria's vocalist Alaska. Both the record and the promotional video reached the top of the popularity charts and remained there for weeks.
Next Sara recorded some love duets with baritone José Antonio Román Marcos and traveled to the United States for a short tour sponsored by New York's Cervantes Institute and the universities of Chicago and Cincinnati. In every city she charmed the audiences with her charismatic presence and sense of humor. Back in Spain she continued her activities which now included supporting the singing career of her son Zeus. She appeared in his 2011 "Sex Dance" video and caused quite a stir.
In February 2013 Sara Montiel became the subject of a made-for-TV documentary titled "Sara's Dream" which aired in Spain to high ratings and great reviews. It was a fitting celebration of her fantastic life and career which came at the right time. A couple of months later, the star who had seemed eternal, passed away suddenly and quietly in her Madrid penthouse. By her family's request, funeral services were private but the funeral procession, organized by the city of Madrid, was a very moving event attended by thousands who showed up at Plaza Callao to bid farewell to their beloved Sara. She was buried in the San Justo cemetery family plot.1952 Necesito dinero
María Teresa
1952 El Enamorado
Rosario
1954 Vera Cruz
Nina (as Sarita Montiel)
1957 Run of the Arrow
Yellow Moccasin (as Sarita Montiel)- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Daniel Edward Mora is an actor known for his work in the multiple Oscar-winning Disney film "COCO," a recurring role in the Peabody Award-winning FX Network series "THE BRIDGE," and another regular part in the web series "SIN VERGÜENZA," which earned him a nomination to the Imagen Award to best actor in a series. A native of Los Angeles who was raised in San Diego, Mora joined the Army after graduating from high school. After spending three years as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg North Carolina, he studied business administration at San Diego State University. Rediscovering a love for acting which had been planted in elementary school and later rekindled in a community college, Mora moved to Los Angeles to try his luck in the movie business. And lucky he has been. In addition to the acclaimed "COCO" and "THE BRIDGE", his movie and television credits also include "FRESH OFF THE BOAT," "AVENGE THE CROWS," "9-1-1,""THE MENTALIST," and "FILLY BROWN," a movie favorite that screened at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. Along with his acting, Mora is a proud Army veteran who is currently an active member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary Reserve.2005 English as a Second Language
Cesar (as Daniel E. Mora)
2005 Harsh Times
Joe (as Daniel E. Mora)
2003 The Maldonado Miracle (TV Movie)
Cubria (as Daniel E. Mora)- Actor
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Edgar Ramirez Arellano is a Venezuelan actor, born in the city of San Cristobal (Tachira State, southwest Venezuela). He is the son of Soday Arellano, an attorney, and Filiberto Ramírez, a military officer.
Being the son of a soldier and living abroad with his family, he learned several languages, like English, German, Italian and French, as well as his mother tongue, Spanish. He studied Journalism (Comunicación Social) at the Andres Bello Catholic University, in Caracas. He began exploring his acting vocation, playing on several school made films.
He was recognized as an actor after portraying "Cacique" in the popular venezuelan soap opera "Cosita Rica", aired through 2003 and 2004, lasting over 270 episodes. His debut as an international Hollywood actor was playing Choco, Domino Harvery's love interest in Tony Scott's Domino.
His next major feature film was Vantage Point directed by Pete Travis. In this high-budgeted Sony Pictures political thriller, Ramírez joined an all-star international cast including Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, Eduardo Noriega and Ayelet Zurer. Ramírez plays Javier, an ex-special forces soldier forced to kidnap the American President. Later on he starred in the title role of Alberto Arvelo's Cyrano Fernández, based on the French play Cyrano de Bergerac.
Ramírez also appears in La Hora Cero (The Magic Hour) (Venezuela), a short film directed by Guillermo Arriaga, the acclaimed screenwriter of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel (Mexico); Plan B, directed by Alejandro García Wiederman (Venezuela); Yotama se va volando (Yotama Flies Away), directed by Luis Armando Roche (Venezuela/France); and Punto y Raya (Step Forward), directed by Elia Schneider (a Venezuela, Spain, Chile and Uruguay co-production), submitted by Venezuela for Oscar consideration for 2004 Best Foreign Film, in which he played the role of Pedro, a Colombian soldier.Speaks five languages: Spanish, English, French, Italian and German. Spanish is his native language.
2012 Zero Dark Thirty
Larry from Ground Branch
2012 Wrath of the Titans
Ares (as Edgar Ramirez)
2007 The Bourne Ultimatum
Paz- Actress who has developed a fruitful career that surpasses fifty years. She has participated in various films, novellas, television series and plays. She is known for projects like "El Albergue", "Mujeres assassins", "Cacaro Gumaro's Crime", "El Infierno", "Las Contigo", "The Perfect Dictatorship", "She is Ramona", and "Sincronia." In 2017, the Mexican Cinema Journalists Committee nominated her for the Silver Goddess Award for Jirón de Niebla (2013).1995 Midaq Valley
Doña Cata - Starting her career in 1984 as Miss Coahuila in the beauty contest Señorita Mexico at 18, she captured the attention of movie producers because of her stunning beauty. She didn't win the contest but won a movie contract which began the next year with the movie 3 Mexicanos Ardientes. It was the start of one of the most prolific careers in the next 2 decades in Latin entertainment industry in TV, records, magazines and especially movies with lots of box office smash hits.1987 Los Gatos de las Azoteas
1987 Los Verduleros 2
2002 El Dia de los Albaniles 4 - Actress
- Script and Continuity Department
- Producer
Born in Cuba, Ylian spent her childhood years in New Jersey, Florida and Delaware before finally settling in Vermont. After practicing architecture for fifteen years, Ylian landed a small role as a reporter in A-Bo the Humonkey. Living in Vermont provided her with the opportunity to pursue small roles filming in Boston and the surrounding areas. Whilst based in Vermont, Ylian worked on films such as; Shuttle, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, The Proposal and the Tyler Perry film The Family That Preys.
Upon returning to Florida where she now resides permanently, Ylian assumed a number of roles in both film, commercials and television including; Followed (James Kicklighter), Renee, Contagion, Good Deeds (Tyler Perry), The Investigator (Richard A. Romano), Osiris, Dr. G: Medical Examiner, Discovery Channel's Shark Week (2011) and Intrusive Behavior (Brian Troxell). In 2016 Ylian took on the challenging role of Sophia, a battered wife, in the Short Film Twelve Past One. The film was accepted in several Film Festivals, winning Best Short FIlm and Honorable Mention for Best Actress.
Though Ylian continues to act, she made the move behind the camera and has added script supervision, assistant director and other production credits to her industry resume, adding to an already impressive list of accomplishments. Whether as actress or producer, Ylian has quickly proven her value both on and off screen and is in high demand for the coming film season.2009 Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Upscale Mall Shopper (uncredited)
2011 Contagion
Sick Citizen (uncredited)
2011 The Walking Dead (TV Series)
Walker / Highway Walker- Bloodletting (2011) ... Walker (uncredited)
- What Lies Ahead (2011) ... Highway Walker (uncredited)
- Mexican character actor Rodolfo Acosta (born Rodolfo Acosta Pérez) achieved his greatest success in the US, primarily as a villain in westerns. He was born in Chamizal, a section of land disputed by Mexico and Texas due to changes in the Rio Grande river which forms the border. At the time of Acosta's birth, the area was generally accepted by both Mexican and Texas governments as U.S. territory, and Acosta was born an American citizen, despite the fact that his birthplace is now in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. He served in the U.S. Navy in naval intelligence during World War II and married Jeanine Cohen, a woman he met in Casablanca during the North African campaign. They had four children. She filed for divorce when she found out Acosta was having an affair and sharing an apartment in Mexico City with actress Ann Sheridan in the 1950s.) They divorced in 1957. Rodolfo Acosta married again on September 18, 1971 to Vera Martinez and they had one child. She divorced him in 1974 a few weeks before his death at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. After the war, Acosta worked in Mexico in films of the great director Emilio Fernández, which led to a bit in John Ford's film The Fugitive (1947). He came to the US and was signed by Universal for a small role in One Way Street (1950). He stayed in the US and his sharp, ruthless features led him to a long succession of roles as bandits, Indian warriors and outlaws. In The Tijuana Story (1957), he actually had a sympathetic leading role, but in general he spent his career as a very familiar western bad guy.R.I.P. (1920-1974) 124 films/ peliculas
Born: Rodolfo Acosta Perez
July 29, 1920 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
1966 Return of the Seven
Lopez (as Rudy Acosta) - Carlos Agostí was born on 3 July 1922 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for La Valentina (1966), Dos corazones y un cielo (1959) and Viva Revolution (1956). He died on 13 December 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Born / Nacido: Arturo Agostí Moreno 1922 in Spain
1976 La virgen de Guadalupe
Capitán Delgadillo - Rico Alaniz was born on 25 October 1919 in Juarez, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Magnificent Seven (1960), War of the Colossal Beast (1958) and Wolf Larsen (1958). He died on 9 March 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.R.I.P. (1919–2015) 92 films/peliculas
1960 The Magnificent Seven
Sotero - Actor
- Writer
- Director
Fernando Almada was born on 26 February 1929 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico. He was an actor and writer, known for El hechizo del pantano (1978), Un mulato llamado Martín (1975) and Pasaporte a la muerte (1988). He died on 30 October 2023 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.151 Films/Peliculas +
1977 Dinastía de la muerte- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Mario Almada was born on 7 January 1922 in Huatabampo, Sonora, Mexico. He was an actor and producer, known for Todo por nada (1969), El tunco Maclovio (1970) and Chido Guan, el tacos de oro (1986). He died on 4 October 2016 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.1977 Dinastía de la muerte
1984 Asalto en Tijuana
1986 Yo el Ejecutor
1995 Un Asesinato Perfecto- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Rodolfo de Anda was born on 6 July 1943 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor and director, known for Mil millas al sur (1978), El macho bionico (1981) and El robo imposible (1981). He was married to Claudia Elena Moran Ize, Mariagna Prats and Patricia Conde. He died on 1 February 2010 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.R.I.P (1943–2010) 157 Films/Peliculas
1977 Dinastía de la muerte
1985 Policia de Narcoticos- Actor
- Writer
- Music Department
Luis de Alba was born on 7 March 1945 in Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico. He is an actor and writer, known for Serafin y la lámpara libidinosa (1994), Los pelotones y Juan Camaney (1990) and El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere (1979).1979 ¿A que le tiras cuando sueñas... Mexicano?
1981 La Pulqueria
1982 La Pulqueria 2
1984 El Dia de los Albaniles
1986 El Dia de los Albaniles 2
1986 Los Verduleros
1987 Los Verduleros 2
1987 Los Gatos de las Azoteas- Mexican film, television and voice actor, with a career spanning over four decades. With a trademark deep, coarse voice, Alcocer dubbed many characters in major American films and TV series for Latin American market, including The Munsters (as Herman Munster), Get Smart (as the Chief), Batman (as The Joker), Kojak (as the main character), Daktari (as Dr. Tracy), among many others. Quoted as a major influence by many current voice actors in Mexican dubbing industry. Details on his death other than date (October 2nd, 1984) are uncertain.R.I.P. (1917-1984) 247 Films/Peliculas
1972 National Mechanics
:Mecánica Nacional (original title)
Gorilón
1951 Mujeres sin mañana
Cliente de cabaret (uncredited) - Cinematographer
- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
John A. Alonzo was born on 12 June 1934 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Chinatown (1974), The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Star Trek: Generations (1994). He was married to Suzanne L. Heltzel and Jan Murray. He died on 13 March 2001 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.R.I.P. (1934–2001) Cinematographer (83 credits) & Actor (28 credits)
1960 The Magnificent Seven
Miguel (as John Alonso)- Fabián Aranza was an actor, known for El manantial de las fieras (1982), Taxi mortal (1980) and La dinastía de Dracula (1980). He died on 13 August 2007 in Mexico.1972 National Mechanics :
Mecánica Nacional (original title) - Jorge Arriaga was an actor, known for La sombra vengadora vs. La mano negra (1956), La huella de unos labios (1952) and La sombra del Caudillo (1960). He died on 30 April 1973 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.1951 Mujeres sin mañana
Domingo, guardaespaldas - Patricia Aspíllaga was born in 1946 in Peru. She was an actress, known for De todos modos Juan te llamas (1976), La ley del monte (1976) and El principio (1973). She died on 9 August 2003 in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.R.I.P (1946–2003) 35 Films/Peliculas
1977 Dinastía de la muerte
Rosauara - Ramón Ayala is known for Aborto: Canto a la vida (1983), Domingo corrales (1988) and Dinastía de la muerte (1977).1977 Dinastía de la muerte
Ricardo del Fierro - Claudio Báez was born on 23 March 1948 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Contrato con la muerte (1985), Narco terror (1985) and El diario íntimo de una cabaretera (1989). He was married to Isaura Espinoza. He died on 19 November 2017 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.1988 El Dia de los Alabaniles 3
- Roberto Ballesteros was born on 22 March 1952 in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. He is an actor, known for El Pantera (2007), Sorceress (1982) and Código postal (2006).1987 Los Verduleros 2
1987 Los Gatos de las Azoteas
1988 El Dia de los Albaniles 3 - Actor
- Director
- Writer
Agustín Bernal was born in 1959 in Paracuaro, Michoacan, Mexico. He was an actor and director, known for Demoledor (1995), Peleas salvajes (1998) and Los asesinos (1998). He died on 8 January 2018 in Parácuaro, Michoacán, Mexico.1988 El Dia de los Albaniles 3
2001 Michoacano a Poca Madre! (also Dir,Exe.Producer,Action Coordinator & Writer)- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Juan Manuel Bernal was born on 22 December 1967 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor and producer, known for Confessions (2023), Perfect Obedience (2014) and Capadocia (2008).1995 Midaq Alley
Chava- Actress
- Soundtrack
Rosenda Bernal is known for Lazos de amor (1995), La pintada (1986) and El cielo no tiene fronteras... (1997).1984 El Hijo de la Calavera! (as Rozenda Bernal)
1984 Asalto en Tijuana (as Rozenda Bernal)
1985 La Tumba del Mojado
1986 Yerba Sangrienta!- Ana Berumen is known for La mafia tiembla (1987), Matanga dijo la changa (1994) and Dos rancheros de cuidado (1998).1996 La Chiva Loco
- Andrés Bonfiglio is known for Comando de federales (1990), Muerte en la playa (1991) and Hora marcada (1988).1995 Un Asesinato Perfecto
- César Bono was born on 19 October 1950 in Mexico City, Mexico. He is an actor, known for Vecinos (2005), Keiko en peligro (1990) and Matinée (1977).1972 National Mechanics :Mecánica Nacional (original title)
1987 Los Verduleros 2
1989 La Taquera Picante
2002 El Dia de los Albaniles 4 - Roberto Cañedo Ramírez was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. His parents were Ignacio Cañedo Iñiguez and Carmen Ramírez Llamas. Has 8 more brothers: Ignacio, Celia, Juan de Dios, María Luisa, Cristina, Manuel, Oscar and Magdalena. In his youth, he worked as a waiter in a restaurant frequented by important people of the film environment. That is how he could be part of the art scene. His debut on films was in 1938 as an extra in 'Capitán aventurero'. For 11 years he made other extra characters, until September 30th, 1943 when he participated on theater in the play called 'Entre Hermanos'. He was very successful in radio soap operas since 1944 where he was accompanied by other stars like Prudencia Grifell, Blanca Estela Pabón, Rosa de Castilla and María Victoria. In 1949, the film director Emilio 'El Indio' Fernández invited him to participated with a starring role in "Pueblerina". He married for the first time with Nellie Valencia. They had 3 kids, Roberto, Francisco and Silvia. After divorcing he married with Ana María Padilla and had 3 girls, Sandra Alicia, Laura Anabelle and Claudia Gisela. He died at the age of 80.R.I.P. (1918–1998): 310 films +
1981 El Mil Usos - Actor
- Additional Crew
Ismael 'East' Carlo was born on 29 January 1942 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. He is an actor, known for Eraser (1996), Patch Adams (1998) and Bandidas (2006).1980 Defiance
El Bravo (as East Carlo)
1982 Voyagers! (TV Series)
Jorge- Bully and Billy (1982) ... Jorge (as East Carlo)
1983-1986 Hotel (TV Series)
Hector- Choices (1983) ... Hector (as Ismael East Carlo)
- Hotel (1983) ... Hector (as Ismael East Carlo)
1996 Eraser
Father Rodriguez
2003 Kingpin (TV Mini-Series)- Gimme Shelter (2003) ... (as Ismael East Carlo)
- The Odd Couple (2003) ... (as Ismael East Carlo)
2004 El padrino
Manny- Delia Casanova was born on 4 November 1948 in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Midaq Alley (1995), All of them Witches (1996) and Love Lies (1989).1995 Midaq Alley
Eusebia - Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Handsome, husky leading man, chiefly in westerns and "comedias rancheras", Casanova appeared as an extra as early as 1946. His break-through came in 1953: after playing alongside star María Félix in Camelia (1954), and appearing in Luis Buñuel's _Él (1952)_ and 'Emilio Fernández''s Reportaje (1953), Casanova was offered the leading role in a popular serial directed by Ramón Peón, _Águila negra, El (1953)_, a hero of the Zorro/Lone Ranger type. After those films, he became a regular leading man in romantic comedies and action films. He made fun of his own early film persona in Mecánica nacional (1971), and continued to work into the 1990s, still in action films but now playing character roles.1972 National Mechanics (1972):Mecánica Nacional (original title)- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Víctor Manuel Castro was born on 22 January 1924 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor and director, known for Judicial pero honrado (1991), Sexo contra sexo (1980) and Fotógrafo de modelos (1990). He died on 17 December 2011 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.1990 La Taquera Picante (uncredited) *(also Director)- Angélica Chain was born on 24 May 1956 in Veracruz, México. She is an actress, known for Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein (1974), El diario íntimo de una cabaretera (1989) and Mil millas al sur (1978).1976 La virgen de Guadalupe
1982 La Pulqueria 2
1984 El Dia de los Albaniles
1985 Policia de Narcoticos
1986 Los Verduleros
1986 El Dia de los Albaniles 2
1988 El Dia de los Albaniles 3 - Actor
- Sound Department
- Camera and Electrical Department
José Luis Chávez is known for Brain Planet (1995), La huella de un asesino (1991) and Vengarse matando (1997).1995 Un Asesinato Perfecto- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Carlos Cores was born on 19 April 1923 in San Fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor and director, known for Lindor Covas, el cimarrón (1963), The Bitter Stems (1956) and Asalto a la ciudad (1968). He died on 8 February 2000 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.R.I.P. 62 Films/Peliculas
1951 Mujeres sin mañana
Antonio- Actress
- Soundtrack
Mapita Cortés was born on 4 August 1939 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was an actress, known for Poker de reinas (1960), Los tres vivales (1958) and Variedades de medianoche (1960). She was married to Lucho Gatica. She died on 1 January 2006 in Mexico City, Mexico.Poker de Reinas (1960)
"Lala"- Ernesto Gómez Cruz was born on 7 November 1933 in Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Realm of Fortune (1986), Midaq Alley (1995) and The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002). He died on 6 April 2024 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.1995 Midaq Alley
"Don Ru"