Hot! Latina Actress Lupe Ontiveros Dies

LOS ANGELES Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:30pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lupe Ontiveros , your frequent Latina identity actress whom worked within videos like "As Good As It Gets" and on TV illustrates like "Desperate Housewives," features past away with lung cancer. She has been 69.

Ontiveros passed away in a Los Angeles medical on Thursday night, said her longtime friend Alex Nogales, president belonging to the National Hispanic Media Coalition.

"Lupe became a good star within our community," Nogales said. "She collection a new ordinary intended for excellence" using her work.

U.S. Secretary with Labor Hilda L. Solis, who seem to believed Ontiveros for additional as compared to twenty years, labeled the girl companion "a fine actress, but greater than that, she seemed to be a woman associated with wonderful action."

Ontiveros came to be Gaudalupe Moreno inside El Paso, Texas on September 17, 1942, for you to Mexican immigrant parents. She obtained a certain amount inside social work out of your Texas Woman's University ahead of relocating to help Los Angeles to start with perform being a actress.

Her primary roles inside the mid-1970s have been standard associated with Hispanic parts, largely maids and housekeepers, and also Ontiveros' pals said that all through the girl existence the girl was quick in order to joke this she'd made family workers many hundreds times.

But Nogales noted in which Ontiveros' ability ran strong as well as your girlfriend skills attended significantly beyond the straightforward components the lady ended up being offered. Indeed, your girlfriend film as well as TV breaks range in the particular lots and also include things like tasks with Oscar-nominated "As Good As It Gets," which earned Ontiveros a great ALMA (American Latino Media Arts) Award.

In the actual video "Selena," your lover played this murderer in the star tejano singer, and also in 2002's "Real Women Have Curves" has been a good overbearing mother.

Ontiveros' TV 'tokens' ranged widely, too, out of components on 1970s hits similar to "Charlie's Angeles" in order to "Hill Street Blues" inside your '80s, "Veronica's Closet" a single ten years soon after as well as current day beat reach "Desperate Housewives."

Outside the woman's acting, Ontiveros utilized your girlfriend boundless vitality in working away at social problems for example HIV/AIDS prevention, home violence legislation, women's medical problems in addition to rights for people along with disabilities.

"As a great presenter as well as entertainer, the lady manufactured us all laugh, in addition to she created people cry. As an advocate, the lady manufactured all of us think and, additional importantly, the girl designed us accomplish something. I will overlook her," Solis stated in a statement.

Ontiveros can be survived by the girl husband as well as three sons.

(Reporting through Bob Tourtellotte ; Editing through Anthony Boadle )