11 Latina Actresses Who Have Spoken Out on Hollywood Stereotypes and Lack of Diversity

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It is no secret that Latinos have been grossly underrepresented in Hollywood. And when Latino actors are included, they are often portraying criminals and domestic workers. Back in the earlier days of film and television, we were “greasers,” “banditos,” immoral and/or angry women, and comedically dim-witted individuals.

Today, however, the tides are changing, with a variety of roles being interpreted by Latinas, and people of our ethnicity and culture(s) are creating those projects which are absent. But we still have a long way to go. Here are 11 actresses in Hollywood who are holding it down for Latinos everywhere have spoken out about both the stereotypes assigned to us as a people, as well as the notion that all we look, act, and are the same.

1Rita Moreno

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Rita Moreno is the Latina icon who many of today’s Latinx entertainers look up to. She admits that she looked up to Elizabeth Taylor, as major Latin-American stars such as Dolores del Rio and Lupe Velez were “way before” her time. Moreno found that being a trailblazer was hard, as she had to fight to obtain her immense success (EGOT!) and change the Hollywood perception of Latinos. About this she has said: “Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies.”

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