Lupe Ontiveros
Birthday: 1942-09-17
Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas, U.S.
Biography: Guadalupe "Lupe" 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 she won the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress, and was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
Movies
Luminarias
Welcome to Luminarias-where hot spicy dish gets served up with a Latin twist by four successful frie...
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As Good as It Gets
Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyon...
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A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002....
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Real Women Have Curves
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desi...
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Little Treasure
Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning...
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Storytelling
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil...
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Dark Mirror
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to re...
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The Goonies
Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure ...
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The Brave
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as th...
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Dolly Dearest
An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a...
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Universal Soldier
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the mili...
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Chuck & Buck
Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck m...
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El Norte
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through...
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La Pastorela: The Shepherd's Tale
Originally produced for PBS's Great Performances Series, La Pastorela is a musical retelling of the ...
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Born in East L.A.
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an i...
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Zoot Suit
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play...
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Juan Frances: Live
Orphaned as an infant, Juan Frances (Spencer John French) is a talented ranchera singer, but he face...
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Celebrity Habla
See what celebrated Latino actors, newsmakers and a musical legend have to say about being Latino in...
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Bound by Honor
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Pa...
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California Suite
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel....
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The World's Greatest Lover
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man ...
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The Boss' Son
Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for h...
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When the Bough Breaks
A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. ...
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Stones for Ibarra
A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new l...
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A Show of Force
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Pu...
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Seguin
A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the strug...
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The Big Fix
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political sm...
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Rio Diablo
Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty hunter w...
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Those She Left Behind
Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family...
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Picking Up the Pieces
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it ac...
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Lies in Plain Sight
“Lies in Plain Sight” tells the story of Eva and her blind cousin Sofia (Martha Higareda), who were ...
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Tortilla Heaven
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his t...
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Guido
An Iraqi immigrant hit man, GUIDO, gets mixed up in a deal gone bad and is forced to transport a cor...
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Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever t...
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The Border
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for...
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Days of Wrath
The lives of rival gang members, a teacher, a TV news crew and other intertwine in the city of Los A...
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Cry Now
Cry Now follows the electrifying sexy encounters between Vincent, a street poster artist, and Luzy, ...
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...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, re...
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Selena
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Tex...
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Our Family Wedding
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respect...
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Candyman: Day of the Dead
As the Day of the Dead celebration approaches the barrio of East Los Angeles, Caroline is challenged...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their ram...
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30 Days Until I'm Famous
A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music...
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Universal Signs
After the death of his fiancée's daughter while in his care, a deaf man shuts himself off from the w...
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The Rosary Murders
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesse...
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The Eggplant Lady
Based on the First Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary, The Agony in the Garden, The Eggplant Lady is a ...
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A Question of Guilt
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child....
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Passionada
The film is a romantic comedy about the Portuguese widow of a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's...
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Making of a Cult Classic: The Unauthorized Story of 'The Goonies'
A retrospective documentary of the cult classic movie The Goonies. Including interviews with the cas...
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Water & Power
Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the hard scrabble Eastside streets of Los Angeles r...
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This Christmas
This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings ...
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