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BL Weekly Top 5: Latino Actors

03/30/2011 By 5 Comments

by Irma Sanchez

This week’s Top list will focus on the Top 5 Latino Actors

1.  Jose Ferrer


A Puerto Rican actor was best known for his role as Cyrano de Bergerac.  He became the first Latino to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in the movie Cyrano de Bergerac in 1950, although he had won an Academy Award in 1948 for his supporting role in Joan of Arc. He is also the only performer to be nominated for a Tony, Oscar and two Emmy nominations for playing the same character, Cyrano.

2.  Anthony Quinn


A Mexican actor was the first Latino to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Viva Zapata in 1952. He won his 2nd Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the painter Paul Gauguin for the movie Lust for Life in 1956. He won several Academy Awards and was also nominated for a Golden Globe.

3. Benecio Del Toro


A Puerto Rican actor and producer won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the movie Traffic. He won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and a Screen Actors Award for Best Actor for the same movie. His performance is thought to be in the movie 21 Grams.

4. Javier Bardem


A Spanish actor who has several awards that includes an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He was nominated for an Oscar in 2000 for Best Actor in the movie Before Night Falls.

5.  Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes


A Mexican actor and comedian better known as Cantinflas. He has a successful career in film that included a Hollywood movie named Around the World in 80 Days in 1956. It earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor for a musical or comedy. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Who would you have added to the list?

References: IMDB, The Internet Movie Database, Terra USA, Mademan,

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About Irma Sanchez

Irma Sanchez, was born and raised in Dallas, Texas before moving to California three years ago for a job and now resides in Chicago, IL. She has been a fan of Being Latino for some time now. She was excited to be able to join and contribute to the already amazing team. In her personal life, she works as an International Relocation Consultant and has moved many families across the globe. She thanks her job for making her culturally sensitive and learning the art of patience. She has a B.A. in Decision Science and if you ask her what Decision Science is she will refer you to Wikipedia because she just listened to her counselor when deciding to get that degree and has long forgotten what it meant.

In her spare time—when she is not working because she is a self-proclaimed workaholic or doing things with Being Latino—she loves to paint. She claims that she is still in the learning phase and it will be a while before she shares her art with everyone. She enjoys reading anything and everything because she says if you are not in the know, how can you be prepared to debate? She also likes to travel and spend as much quality time with her family that she can as they are still in Texas. She has a small obsession with her youngest nephew and is now considered the boring aunt.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be understood to be shared by Being Latino, Inc.

Comments

  1. Jose Feliciano Jr says:
    03/30/2011 at 8:23 am

    good list , for sure would have to add

    Clifton Collins Jr.
    Gael Garcia Bernal
    Luis Guzman

  2. Nancy Sepulveda says:
    03/30/2011 at 10:43 am

    Ditto with Gael Garcia Bernal :)

  3. chennifer says:
    03/30/2011 at 11:03 am

    great list! There are always people one would like to add, making a top 5 must be really hard! I Love Ricardo Darin, such an amazing actor, so he’s the one I would want to add :)

  4. K.Cedano says:
    03/31/2011 at 11:40 am

    Cantinflas is epic!!

  5. Jessica Lopez says:
    04/18/2011 at 3:19 pm

    Benicio is everything to me!!! Love his work. Of the younger actors I love Michael Peña, Jesse Garcia, Nick Gonzalez and my fave is Jerry Hernandez http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1750860/

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