American actress Guadalupe Ontiveros is well recognized for her roles as Yolanda Saldívar in the movie Selena and Rosalita in The Goonies. She performed in a lot of TV series and movies.
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Ontiveros once calculated that she had performed as a maid on stage and television at least 150 times. She expressed her desire for Latina performers to have access to a wider range of parts, saying, “I’m proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.”
I’ve put my heart and soul into every maid I’ve ever played.”She was selected as the narrator for the documentary Maid in America, in part due to her past experiences in this capacity.
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After a fight with liver cancer, Ontiveros passed away on July 26, 2012, at the age of 69 at Presbyterian Hospital in Whittier, California.
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Ontiveros and her husband, Elías Ontiveros, had three sons, Alejandro, Elias, and Nicholas. They resided in Pico Rivera, California.
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