{"id":1213,"date":"2012-07-29T22:07:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2012-07-29T22:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T05:19:19","slug":"actress-lupe-ontiveros-dies-at-age-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2012\/07\/29\/actress-lupe-ontiveros-dies-at-age-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Lupe Ontiveros dies at age 69"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering this wonderful actress, Lupe Ontiveros. \u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

By Mireya Navarro, from the NY Times<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(July 27, 2012)<\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>

Lupe Ontiveros. Image by Lester Cohen<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Lupe Ontiveros, a Mexican-American character actress who struggled through Hollywood typecasting to play memorable roles in television and film and become a model of perseverance for Latino actors, died on Thursday [July 26] in Whittier, Calif. She was 69.\u00c2\u00a0A son, Nicholas Ontiveros, said the cause was liver cancer.<\/p>\n

Ms. Ontiveros worked steadily throughout a career of more than 35 years in roles as disparate as a murderous fan in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Selena\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a domineering mother in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Real Women Have Curves,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which brought her a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. She was nominated for an Emmy as Eva Longoria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s suspicious mother-in-law in the ABC series \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Desperate Housewives.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dIn \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Selena,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d released in 1997, Ms. Ontiveros was so credible as the killer of the popular Tejano music star Selena Quintanilla, played by Jennifer Lopez, that for years the singer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fans would hiss at her when she walked into a public place.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There were people who would stop her and say things,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the actor Edward James Olmos said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d explain she felt the same way they did.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0As an actor, Mr. Olmos said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153she had this incredible ability to make you believe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Ms. Ontiveros\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s signature role became that of the Hispanic maid, which she figured she had played more than 150 times in television and films, like James L. Brooks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As Good as It Gets\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Steven Spielberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Goonies.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

That she was repeatedly cast in the role mostly reflected Hollywood stereotyping and the lack of variety in roles offered to Latino actors, she said. \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re very much a part of this country and that we make up every part of this country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she told The New York Times in 2002. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When I go in there and speak perfect English, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get the part.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Putting on a Spanish accent was part of acting for Ms. Ontiveros, who was born Guadalupe Moreno to Mexican immigrants on Sept. 17, 1942, in El Paso. Her parents owned two restaurants and a tortilla factory in El Paso, gave their only child dance and piano lessons, and sent her to Texas Woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s University, where she majored in psychology and social work.<\/p>\n

Ms. Ontiveros was working as a social worker when her artistic leanings led her to pursue acting in the 1970s. \u00c2\u00a0Along with Mr. Olmos, she was a cast member of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Zoot Suit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which in 1979 was the first Mexican-American production to come to Broadway. In 1985, she became a founder of the Latino Theater Company in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

….<\/p>\n

With characteristic saltiness, Ms. Ontiveros once said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made chicken salad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d out of chicken manure. But she did not regret playing so many maids, she said, because it allowed for steady work and for portraying working people with dignity. She narrated the 2005 documentary \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maid in America.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m proud to represent those hands that labor in this country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she told The Times.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve given every maid I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve portrayed soul and heart.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Ms. Ontiveros, who lived in Pico Rivera, Calif., is survived by her husband, Elias Ontiveros Jr.; her sons Nicholas, Alejandro and Elias, and two granddaughters.<\/p>\n

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Remembering this wonderful actress, Lupe Ontiveros. \u00c2\u00a0 By Mireya Navarro, from the NY Times\u00c2\u00a0(July 27, 2012) Lupe Ontiveros, a Mexican-American character actress who struggled through Hollywood typecasting to play memorable roles in television and film and become a model of perseverance for Latino actors, died on Thursday [July 26] in Whittier, Calif. 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