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Lupe Ontiveros

1942 - 2012

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Guadalupe Ontiveros (née Moreno; September 17, 1942 – July 26, 2012) was an American actress best known for portraying Rosalita in The Goonies, and Yolanda Saldívar in the film Selena. She acted in numerous films and television shows. Ontiveros was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on Desperate Housewives and received critical acclaim for her role in Chuck & Buck, for which Ontiveros won the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress, and was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lupe Ontiveros is the 3,895th most popular actor (up from 4,063rd in 2019), the 6,316th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,039th in 2019) and the 1,819th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Lupe Ontiveros ranks 3,895 out of 13,578. Before her are Rosario Dawson, Erika Blanc, Leslie Uggams, Eva-Maria Hagen, Kenneth Mars, and Rosie O'Donnell. After her are Edie Falco, Mikhail Shchepkin, Warwick Davis, Michael Gothard, Dorian Gray, and Shirley Booth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Lupe Ontiveros ranks 395. Before her are Boubacar Traoré, Rubén Salazar Gómez, Deirdre McCloskey, Tomasz Stańko, Leon Russell, and Erika Blanc. After her are Svetlana Gannushkina, Charmian Carr, Rosa von Praunheim, Eric Shinseki, Casimir Oyé-Mba, and Béla Károlyi. Among people deceased in 2012, Lupe Ontiveros ranks 251. Before her are Leon Schlumpf, Nelson Prudêncio, Paul Pietsch, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Félicien Marceau, and Vladimir Krutov. After her are Isuzu Yamada, Arkady Vorobyov, Othmar Schneider, Susanne Lothar, Bal Thackeray, and John Keegan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lupe Ontiveros ranks 6,317 out of 20,380. Before her are Rosie O'Donnell (1962), Louis C.K. (1967), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Nate Diaz (1985), Huell Howser (1945), and Jon Brion (1963). After her are Edie Falco (1963), Joseph Keller (1923), Carmen Barth (1912), Caroline Smith (1906), Anne Tyler (1941), and Grant Green (1935).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Lupe Ontiveros ranks 1,819. Before her are Michael Paré (1958), Richard Simmons (1948), Rosario Dawson (1979), Leslie Uggams (1943), Kenneth Mars (1935), and Rosie O'Donnell (1962). After her are Edie Falco (1963), Shirley Booth (1898), Verne Troyer (1969), Sharon Gless (1943), Rainn Wilson (1966), and Thomas Lennon (1970).

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