Photo: Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara / CC BY-SA 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Lupe Ontiveros is one of those character actors whose face you know even if you never learned the name. To me she's two unforgettable extremes: warm, comic Rosalita in The Goonies and chilling Yolanda Saldivar in Selena. That she could swing between those poles tells me how much she could do with a supporting role. I find it telling that her background included social work and Texas Woman's University; you sense real life behind her performances. She passed in 2012, but the body of work she left, decades of films and television, makes her exactly the kind of dependable presence I respect most.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Lupe Ontiveros
- Name (Japanese)
- ルーペ・オンティヴェロス
- Reading
- るーぺ・おんてぃゔぇろす
- Born
- September 17, 1942 – July 26, 2012
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Horse
- Origin
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / social worker / stage actor / voice actor
2. Background
- High school
- El Paso High School
- University
- Texas Woman's University
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Frequently asked questions
When was Lupe Ontiveros born?
September 17, 1942 – July 26, 2012.
Where is Lupe Ontiveros from?
Lupe Ontiveros is from El Paso, Texas, United States.
What does Lupe Ontiveros do?
Lupe Ontiveros works as television actor, film actor, social worker, stage actor, voice actor.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.