He becomes mixed up with a married couple (Nolte and Lopez), each of whom want Bobby to kill the other. Jennifer Lopez, Maid in Manhattan (2002)įig.11 Spanish actress Shelley Morrison, as Rosario Salazar in Will & Grace.Bobby (Penn) is a two-bit gambler on his way to pay off the balance of a debt in Las Vegas (the down payment was two of his fingers) when he is stranded in the town of Superior, Arizona. 10 Jennifer Lopez as Marisa Ventura, a born and bred New York maid (and single mom) who teaches a high profile politician named Christopher Marshall ( Ralph Fiennes) what it’s like to grow up in the projects. Lupe Ontiveros, As Good As It Gets (1997)įig. idealistic and emotional Nora Manning, Simom Bishop's ( Greg Kinnear) maid in the Oscar-winning film, As Good As It Gets. 9 Mexican actress Lupe Ontiveros estimates that she has played a maid between 150 and 300 times in her career. 8 Chilean actress Catalina Saavedra played Raquel, a maid who had been serving a family for over 20 years, who literally cleans house to ensure that she's the family's only help. Saavedra's performance in the film won her several awards for Best Actress. 7 For her role as Amelia, the nanny and maid of an American family in the Oscar-nominated film, Babel, Mexican actress Adriana Barraza was nominated for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actor's Guild Award, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. With the money she makes as a maid, Rosario calls her son every Sunday, and pays her family members to look after him. 6 Kate Del Castillo plays Rosario, a woman who works as a maid in the U.S., who dreams of reuniting with her son, Carlitos ( Adrian Alonso). 5 Paz Vega played Flor Moreno, a poor Mexican single mom who gets hired as a 24/7 live-in maid for an affluent American family, despite the fact that she doesn’t speak a single word of English. Nadine Velasquez, My Name is Earl (2005-2009)įig. 4 The Puerto Rican actress starred as Catalina Aruca, a motel maid and stripper. 3 Consuela, Family Guy (2005-Present)įig. As Cher's step-brother explains to his step-sister, "it's an entirely different country!" Aida Linares, Clueless (1995)įig. 2 “I am not a Mexican!” That's what Lucy ( Aida Linares) says to Cher ( Alicia Silverstone) in Clueless, when Cher assumes that Lucy is Mexican, when in fact she's from El Salvador. Four Latina maids with ambition and dreams of their own work for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills.įig. 1 Ana Ortiz, Dania Ramirez, Judy Reyes, Rebecca Wisocky, Roselyn Sanchez. We want to aspire to more than domestic roles in television and film as in real life.įig. Image Hispanic Americans want to portray. It is evident that the problem of perception runs deep and this is not the The image of Hispanics as impoverished, Spanish speaking or of recent immigrant New York, Miami and Los Angeles stated that the entertainment industry insisted on Rivera Policy Institute commissioned by the Screen Actors Guild in 1999, actors from However, not every Hispanic woman in America is a maid. There are indeed many maids who are Hispanic. Reasons they feel the need to cast the “Domestic role” with a Latina who speaksĮnglish with a heavy accent. ![]() Perhaps these are the only Hispanics they may know. There is a high population of Mexicans who happen to work in domestic roles and Many American Directors reside in Los Angeles, where The torch has been passed from African American actors to Hispanic actors to As we can see, this is not the case for HispanicĪctors. These stereotypical roles have nowĭiminished for this ethnic group. Protested against Blacks playing such roles. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People once However, it is a role now inherited by HispanicĪctresses. The role of “the help” belonged to different ethnic groups in ![]() It seems that this is the continued perspective of ![]() Hispanic women with rich cultural background continue toīe limited to a single type of role. The maid role that was once dominated by African American Actresses has shiftedĭecisively toward Latinas.
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