1. Raquel Torres (1908 - 1987), the Mexican-born film star was the third Latin to become a star in Hollywood in the 1920's. Her most memorable role was the lead in the White Shadows on the South Seas (1928).

  2. Dolores del Rio (1899 - 1983), was the first Mexican film start to succeed in Hollywood in 1925. A great beauty, she began a second career in Mexican films in 1943.

  3. Ramon Novarro (1899 - 1968), made history be being the first Mexican film superstar in Hollywood beginning in 1923. Versatile in comedy and drama, he was also a director, opera singer and stage actor.

  4. Lupe Velez (1908 - 1944), the Mexican-born singer and dancer became the second Mexican film star beginning in 1927. She excelled in comedy.

  5. Gilbert Roland (1905 - 1994), he debuted in Hollywood in 1927, played romantic leads in the twenties and thirties, the Cisco Kid in the forties and a variety of roles thereafter.

  6. Antonio Moreno (1997 - 1967), he was the first Spanish-born film star in Hollywood beginning in 1912. He played romantic leads in the teens and twenties and character roles thereafter.

  7. Rita Hayworth (1918 - 1987), alias Margarita Cansino, born in Tijuana of Spanish parents, she was a dancer and singer, before debuting in films in 1935, and rose to become a legendary sex symbol.

  8. Katy Jurado (Born in 1927), the Mexican beauty became a star in Mexican films before scoring in High Noon in 1951.

  9. Cesar Romero (1907 - 1994), of Cuban parentage, he specialized in playing suave romantic leads and villains. He was the second actor to play the Cisco Kid.

  10. Anthony Quinn (Born 1915), the durable Mexican-born actor was the first Mexican to win an Academy Award (in Viva Zapata in 1953 and Lust for Life in 1956).

  11. Duncan Renaldo (1904 - 1980), the Spanish-born actor is best remembered as the third film Cisco Kid, which he also played on television in the 1950's.

  12. Maria Montez (1920 - 1951), the Dominican-born beauty became famous playing exotic leads in the 1940's in a series of lavished adventure films.

  13. Pedro Armendariz (1912 - 1963), the virile Mexican-born actor became an international film star in the later 1940's after scoring in Mexican cinema.

  14. Lupita Tovar (Born in 1911), the Mexican-born start worked in Hollywood films in the twenties, thirties and forties.

  15. Miroslava (1926 - 1955),born in Czechoslovakia, raised in Mexico, where she became an important star and made two Hollywood films.

  16. Tito Guizar (born in 1908), the popular Mexican-born singer starred in Hollywood films in the thirties and forties and thereafter in Mexico.

  17. Jose Ferrer (1912 - 1992), the gifter Puerto Rican actor and director of film, stage and television was the first Latino to win an Academy Award (for Cyrano de Bergerac in 1950).

  18. Carmen Miranda (1909 - 1955), born in Portugal and raised in Brazil, her vogue came in colorful Hollywood musicals in the forties.

  19. Arturo de Cordova (1908 - 1973), a Mexican-born romantic leading man was brought to Hollywood for ten films beginning in 1942.

  20. Cantinflas (1911 - 1993), the legendary Mexican comedian starred in two Hollywood films, Around the World in Eighty Days (1959) and Pepe (1960).

  21. Ricardo Montalban (Born in 1920), was already a Mexican film star when he was brought to a romantic lead in Hollywood films in 1947.

  22. Leo Carrillo (1880 - 1961), the Mexican-American actor specialized in sidekick comic roles and cheerful villains.

  23. Jose Mojica (1896 - 1974), the Mexican-born tenor starred in both Mexican and Hollywood films in the twenties and thirties.

  24. Margo (1917 - 1985) the Mexican-born singer and dancer broke into Hollywood films in 1934. She would later become the cofounder of Plaza de la Raza.

  25. Danny De La Paz,Chicano actor of sstage, film and television especially memorable in Boulevard Nights (1979).

  26. Cheech Marin (born in 1946), Chicano comendian/actor/director, began as a stand up comedian with Tommy Chong and later made a series of films.

  27. Barbara Carrera (born in 1945), the Nicaraguan beauty began as a model and later branched out in films and television.

  28. Sarita Montiel (born in 1928), the popular Spanish- born singer and actress starred in four U.S. films, Vera Curz (1954) among them.

  29. Mike Gomez, versatile Chicano actor of stage, film, and television.

  30. Raquel Welch (born in 1940), alias Raquel Tejada, born of Bolivian parents. Typcast in the sixties as a sex symbol, she branced out as a series actress in films and Broadway.

  31. Rosaura Revueltas (1919 - 1997), an established Mexican film star before playing the lead in the classic Salt of the Earth (1954).

  32. Jerry G. Velasco, Chicano film agend and leader in Nosotros, an organization dedicated to improving the images and opportunities of Latinos in the media.

  33. Isela Vega, she was typecast as a sex symbol in Mexican films in the sixties and seventies, later starred in four U.S. films.

  34. Desi Arnaz (1917 - 1986), Cuban born musician and later actor in the 1940's. Best remembered for I Love Lucy, opposite Lucille Ball.

  35. Rita Moreno (born in 1931), versatile Puerto Rican actress, winner of an Oscar for West Side Story (1960), an Emmy and a Tony.

  36. Hector Elizondo, versatile Puerto Rican actor of film, stage and television.

  37. Robert Beltran, Chicano leading man of film, stage and television.

  38. Lynda Carter (born in 1952), born of a Mexican mother and an Anglo father, best remembered for television's Wonder Woman.

  39. Elpidia Carrillo (born in 1961), Mexican-born actress, star of the Border (1982) and Mi Familia (1966).

  40. Ruben Blades (born in 1948), Panamanian-born salsa musician and actor, in films since 1985.

  41. Martin Sheen (born in 1940), alias Ramon Estevez, born of Spanish parents, has done extensive film, television and theatre.

  42. Rene Enriquez (1933 - 1990), Nicaraguan-born actor, best remembered as L Ray Calletano in Television's Hill Street Blues.

  43. Paul Rodriguez (born in 1955), the Mexican-born comedian has a growing list of film and television credits.

  44. Elizabeth Peña (born in 1961), of Cuban ancestry, she has been active in theatre, film and television.

  45. Esai Moralez (born in 1963), of Cuban parentage, he has been in films since 1982, more recently in Mi Familia.

  46. Lou Diamond Phillips, an actor of Filipino, Cherokee and Hispanic decent, best remembered for La Bamba (1987).

  47. Rosana de Soto, Chicana leading lady of film, theatre and television.

  48. Emilio Estevez (born in 1962), son of Martin Sheen and brother of Charlie Sheen, of Spanish Parentage. He is an actor, director and writer.

  49. Pepe Serna, versatile Chicano actor of comedy and drama on television, film and theatre.

  50. David Villalpando, Mexican-born actor of theatre and film still remembered for El Norte.

  51. Arturo Xuncax,, Mexican-born Mayan actor of film and television, best remembered for El Norte.

  52. Raul Julia (1940 - 1994),gifted Puerto Rican actor of film, theatre and television. Best remembered for Kiss of the Spiderwoman (1985).

  53. Jimmy Smits (born in 1955), leading man of Puerto Rican ancestry, prominent in film, theatre and television's NYPD Blue.

  54. Constance Marlo, rising Chicana actress of film, television and stage.

  55. Elpidia Carrillo,( See Number 39).

  56. Lupe Ontiveros,versatile Chicana actress in both comedy and drama.

  57. Enrique Castillo, talented Chicano Actor of theatre, television and film.

  58. Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Mexican-born veteran actor of telenovelas, theatre and film.

  59. Jenny Gago (born 1951), Peruvian-born flim start of telenovelas and film.

  60. Sonia Braga (born in 1951), Brazilian-born film star of telenovelas and film.

  61. Maria Conchita Alonso (Born in 1957), Cuban-born actress of television, film and Broadway.

  62. Andy Garcia (born in 1956), Cuban-born leading man of theatre, film and television. More recently a director.

  63. Salma Hayek, Mexican-born leading lady of Mexican film and telenovelas and more recently Hollywood films.

  64. Antonio Banderas, Spanish-born leading man of Spanish and Hollywood films.

  65. Jennifer Lopez, Puerto Rican leading lady of film and television, best known for the film Selena.

  66. Edward James Olmos (born in 1947), Chicano leading man of theatre, television and film, more recently a director.

  67. Pina Pellicer (1935 - 1964),gifted Mexican-born actress, star of the Mexican film classic Macarlo (1961) and One-Eyed Jacks (1961).

  68. Charlie Sheen (born in 1965), Carlos Estevez and son of Martin Sheen, popular leading man of film and television.

  69. Lorenzo Lamas (born in 1958), son of Argentinean heart throb Fernando Lamas and Arlene Dahl, popular leading man of television and film.





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