Spanish Actors and Actresses
Benicio del Toro
When Benicio Del Toro first announced to his father and siblings that
he intended to pursue a career in acting, they didn't take the news
very well. As Del Toro told one interviewer, "My family freaked when I
told them I wanted to be an actor. It was like telling them I wanted
to be an astronaut. On top of that, it was like saying that in order
to be an astronaut, I was going to have to drive a cab in New York for
five years.
" The family probably felt that its worst fears had been realized when
Del Toro won his first movie role, playing "Duke the Dog-Faced Boy,"
in the ill-contrived sequel to Pee-WeeÆs Big Adventure, Big Top
Pee-Wee. Undaunted by the execrable effort, Del Toro stuck it out, and
over the course of the next several years, he paid the bills with a
steady stream of supporting roles, both in films and on television,
including several memorable portrayals of drug-dealing heavies.
His career caught fire with the role of enunciation-challenged con man
Fred Fenster in Bryan Singer's stunning ensemble crime drama The Usual
Suspects (1995), a performance for which he won an Independent Spirit
Best Supporting Actor award; he won the same award the following year
for his work in the critically lauded biopic Basquiat. With a résumé
comprised in equal measures of mainstream fare and independent
projects, Del Toro is uniquely positioned to become a draw both at the
box office and on the film-festival circuit.
Now living in Los Angeles, Del Toro maintains a low profile between
movies, and has thus far managed to avoid becoming entangled in any
celebrity romances. His scree...
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... of 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'
and 'Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!' piqued Hollywood's interest in the Latin
sensation. He crossed over to American pictures in 1992, playing a
young Cuban musician in 'The Mambo Kings.' At the time he was cast,
Banderas spoke no English and had to learn all of his dialogue
phonetically.
Despite the language barrier, the role provided the jump-start Antonio
needed. He was cast opposite TOM HANKS in the 1993 Oscar?-winner
'Philadelphia,' then went on to take a bite out of the big screen --
and some innocent victims -- with fellow blood-suckers BRAD PITT and
TOM CRUISE in the 1994 blockbuster, 'Interview with the Vampire.' His
other early credits include 'The House of Spirits' (starring MERYL
STREEP, GLENN CLOSE and WINONA RYDER) and 'Miami Rhapsody' (SARAH
JESSICA PARKER).
Selena, “Le Reina de Tejano”, was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson. She was the youngest of three children of Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and Marcela, his wife. At a young age, Abraham had a strong passion for music that he still has. During the 1950s and 1960s, him and his friends made a group called “Los Dinos” and played at nightclubs and restaurants. Even though his passion for music, he gave it up when he got married and earned a job at Dow Chemical as a shipping clerk.
Depiction of Latinos in 20th Century Film Graphs Not Included Over the course of this past century, the depictions of assimilated Latino characters has improved a great deal. Early portrayals of Latino assimilation generally proved to be a montage of unrealistic caricatures which seemed to convey the filmmaker's creativity more so than true representations. This formed the manner in which the American people at large viewed not just Latino characters attempting to assimilate, but also those who were not. As Cine-Aztlan puts it, film "manipulates the human psychology, sociology, religion, and morality of the people, in a word the ideological super-structure of modern capitalist society" (pg.275, Chicanos and Film).
... “of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth” The space program fascinates the American people. In the early 1960s whenever space flights were launched during school hours students would gather in gyms and auditoriums to watch the lift offs on television. The race to the moon continued through the 1960s. It is one of the nations single most expensive projects of the decade, costing $56 billion.
Valle-Inclán and Lorca have both been very influential and important figures of the twentieth century Spanish theatre. During their time, the theatre was mainly made up of bourgeois theatregoers who did not enjoy thought provoking plays, but preferred a theatre that was conventional and contemporary. Both Valle and Lorca departed from convention and showed freedom in their style of writing, therefore earning their reputation of dramatists of utmost importance, respect and originality, who not only brought new trends to the Spanish theatre, but also embodied the signs of change and hope for the Spanish stage.
what I wanted to become. So after graduation I decided to explore my options at
Placido Benavides – He was a Mexican born Texan who helped settle Victoria, Texas. Although he was loyal to Mexico, he didn’t like the dictatorship of the Mexican government lead by Santa Anna. Benavides fought alongside Texans against the Mexican Army. He is best known for riding around Texas warning others of approaching Mexican Armies.
The Latin American film genre is one of the most known genre worldwide and one of the most popular and successful of all of the genres in this business around the world. Yearly a number of productions from Latin America become favored and demanded successes, often-earning high levels of recognition and recommendation. In foreign film categories and in events and functions such as the Oscars, which are very highly respected around the world, Latin American films are awarded and praised and unquestionably make audiences sit on seat’s edge to bear mind films being produced in countries here. Latin American films are most likely to be as successful as they are because of the mixture of all of the elements, which their cinema provides, including
Since its creation the Spanish Golden Age Theatre has held an important role in the Spanish society. The golden age theatre was from 1590-1681. During this era, the Golden Age had a huge influence over the Latin American theatre world. Spain in particular saw a monumental increase in the production of live theatre. Before the Golden Age era, live theatre was non-existence. The production of live theatre became popular and was attended by both lower and higher class of people. In addition women was allowed to act in theatre plays with men. Before the Golden Age, male actors played female character roles. Over a period of time, live theatre plays started to incorporate religion, comedy and tragedy performances. Spain also introduced its own forms and genres of theatre with the development of the zarzuela. The genre zarzuela is a lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and singing acting. Zarzuela started to influence many Hispanic countries and Cuba developed their own traditions of Zarzuela.
To help me understand and analyze a different culture, I watched the film Selena. The film tells the life story of the famous singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. Not only does it just tell personal stories from her life, it also gives insight to the Mexican-American culture. Her whole life she lived in the United States, specifically in Texas, but was Hispanic and because of that both her and her family faced more struggles than white singers on the climb to her success. Even though the film is a story about a specific person, it brought understanding into the culture in which she lived. Keeping in mind that these ideas that I drew about the Mexican-American culture is very broad and do not apply to every single person in the culture, there were very obvious differences in their culture and the one that I belong. Mexican-American culture identifies with their family rather than individualized or spiritual identities and the culture has gone through significant changes because of discrimination and the changing demographics of the United States.
The film Selena, directed by Gregory Nava is a fantastic portrayal of Selena, American singer, songwriter, spokesperson, model, actress, and fashion designer. Selena is known as the queen of Tejano music and to this day she is one of the top selling Latin artists. She started out at the age of ten in her family band Selena y Los Dinos which gave her the confidence to be able to rise to stardom. Growing up Selena only spoke english but later on her father pushed her to learn to sing in spanish which made her music all the more beautiful. Tragically, Selena was murdered by her own friend and manager Yolanda Saldívar On March 31, 1995 over an argument about the theft of money.
“Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start mobbing your life in that direction,” was said by inspirational astronaut, Chris Hadfield. Hadfield was born in Canada with a dream of becoming an astronaut. Knowing how difficult this could be considering Canada did not have a space station, Hadfield never let that get in the way of achieving his goals. Starting off as a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, he took part in two space shuttle missions and later became a commander of the ISS (International Space Station). Later on in 1992, he joined the Canadian Astronaut Program, which allowed him to take on space for the first time in 1995. It may seem as if Hadfield had it anything short of smooth sailing on his journey to become an astronaut, but in his book “An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth” he talks about all the struggles and sacrifices he had to make to get to his goal.
My mission in life is to become a Radiologist. I will fufill my dream on becoming a Radiologists by studying and getting a good grades. I will promise everyone that I will study for each test or quizzes.
Eventually my constant greed for Doc McStuffin toys endorsed my parents realize what I wanted to be when I got older. Because of this new fetish they probed my every move. Meanwhile in the summer time I would always bring my dolls and teddy bears with me to the pool. When I got there I would sit them in a row and pick one at a time to be my patient. My parents could never fathom what I was doing.
people started to die out of starvation but the higher class people got more t
It was just an ordinary day. The sun had just set and we were all sitting around the table eating dinner. My mother and father always asked us about our future and what we were hoping to accomplish. My brother and sister always explained how they wanted to go into the air force and be doctor. Of course I would just sit there and think about how I didn’t know what I wanted to be. But this particular night I had an idea of what I wanted to do! So before my mom and dad could get out of their mouth the question, I said “I know what I want to be!”. They all stared and asked what that might be and I replied, “A famous artist!” I said, “I want my paintings and sketchings to be shown worldwide!”. They told me that, that was all good and well but that there was a lot of steps to achieve this goal and that it wasn’t very realistic. But what they didn’t know was that very line pushed me to prove them wrong.