Lupe Ontiveros
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.282 |
Birthday | 1942-09-17 |
Place of Birth | El Paso, Texas, U.S. |
Also Known As | Lupe M. Ontiveros, |
2000
Luminarias
1/1
Welcome to Luminarias-where hot spicy dish gets served up with a Latin twist by four successful friends from East LA...with very discriminating taste...
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Luminarias
1997
As Good as It Gets
7.393/3737
Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. Aft...
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As Good as It Gets
2006
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
5.6/18
The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002.
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A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
2002
Real Women Have Curves
6.1/83
Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is t...
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Real Women Have Curves
1985
Little Treasure
4/7
Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling pr...
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Little Treasure
2001
Storytelling
6.5/180
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
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Storytelling
2007
Dark Mirror
5.1/37
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
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Dark Mirror
1985
The Goonies
7.516/5669
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends...
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The Goonies
1997
The Brave
6.04/188
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of whi...
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The Brave
1991
Dolly Dearest
5.53/117
An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a Sanzian grave and the toys come into possession o...
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Dolly Dearest
1992
Universal Soldier
6.299/1673
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldi...
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Universal Soldier
2000
Chuck & Buck
5.9/61
Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed beh...
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Chuck & Buck
1983
El Norte
7.2/64
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the drea...
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El Norte
1991
La Pastorela: The Shepherd's Tale
4.7/4
Originally produced for PBS's Great Performances Series, La Pastorela is a musical retelling of the shepherds' journey to Bethlehem to see the Christ...
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La Pastorela: The Shepherd's Tale
1987
Born in East L.A.
5.8/101
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As hi...
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Born in East L.A.
1981
Zoot Suit
6.1/18
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case an...
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Zoot Suit
2008
El Superstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Frances
0/0
Orphaned as an infant, Juan Frances (Spencer John French) is a talented ranchera singer, but he faces a hurdle in his attempt to succeed as a Latin mu...
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El Superstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Frances
2014
Journey of a Female Comic
6.8/4
The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.
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Journey of a Female Comic
2009
Celebrity Habla
0/0
See what celebrated Latino actors, newsmakers and a musical legend have to say about being Latino in the U.S. in this sixth installment in the award-w...
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Celebrity Habla
1993
Bound by Honor
8.1/1323
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It...
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Bound by Honor
1978
California Suite
5.8/102
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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California Suite
1977
The World's Greatest Lover
5.8/31
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of...
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The World's Greatest Lover
1978
The Boss' Son
0/0
Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for his father, a successful carpet manufacturer. Bobby...
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The Boss' Son
1986
When the Bough Breaks
5.5/4
A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found...
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When the Bough Breaks
1988
Stones for Ibarra
0/0
A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two of...
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Stones for Ibarra
1990
A Show of Force
4.8/8
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe m...
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A Show of Force
1982
Seguin
0/0
A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the turbul...
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Seguin
1978
The Big Fix
5.7/31
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is re...
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The Big Fix
1993
Rio Diablo
5.2/4
Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty hunter with a quick temper and a trigger finger to match....
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Rio Diablo
1989
Those She Left Behind
5/1
Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned co...
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Those She Left Behind
2000
Picking Up the Pieces
4.4/88
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband...
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Picking Up the Pieces
2010
Lies in Plain Sight
6/6
“Lies in Plain Sight” tells the story of Eva and her blind cousin Sofia (Martha Higareda), who were inseparable as children, with Eva the loyal compan...
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Lies in Plain Sight
2008
Tortilla Heaven
4.6/10
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, I...
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Tortilla Heaven
2014
Guido
10/1
An Iraqi immigrant hit man, GUIDO, gets mixed up in a deal gone bad and is forced to transport a corpse across the country, with several Albanian assa...
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Guido
1980
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
5.966/236
Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot en...
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Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
1982
The Border
6/121
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
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The Border
2008
Days of Wrath
10/1
The lives of rival gang members, a teacher, a TV news crew and other intertwine in the city of Los Angeles.
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Days of Wrath
2014
Cry Now
4/2
Cry Now follows the electrifying sexy encounters between Vincent, a street poster artist, and Luzy, a tattoo designer. But Sofia, Vincent's obsessive...
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Cry Now
1995
...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
5.3/6
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker fa...
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...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
1997
Selena
7.7/1213
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young d...
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Selena
2010
Our Family Wedding
5.7/127
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
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Our Family Wedding
1999
Candyman: Day of the Dead
4.6/234
As the Day of the Dead celebration approaches the barrio of East Los Angeles, Caroline is challenged to control the horrifying legend of her ancestor,...
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Candyman: Day of the Dead
2011
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
5.9/386
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challen...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2004
30 Days Until I'm Famous
4.9/5
A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
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30 Days Until I'm Famous
2008
Universal Signs
5/1
After the death of his fiancée's daughter while in his care, a deaf man shuts himself off from the world. Haunted by memories, it is only through new...
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Universal Signs
1987
The Rosary Murders
5.5/31
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
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The Rosary Murders
2001
The Eggplant Lady
0/0
Based on the First Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary, The Agony in the Garden, The Eggplant Lady is a heartwarming story about a family’s decision to mo...
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The Eggplant Lady
1978
A Question of Guilt
6.2/4
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
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A Question of Guilt
2003
Passionada
7/11
The film is a romantic comedy about the Portuguese widow of a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter, who wants to be a professional...
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Passionada
2010
Making of a Cult Classic: The Unauthorized Story of 'The Goonies'
8/4
A retrospective documentary of the cult classic movie The Goonies. Including interviews with the cast, exploration of the film's locations and unique...
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