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Latinos Before and After
Eva Longoria
Even though last season she lost her looks for a while on 'Desperate Housewives', in real life the Texan beauty looks as glamorous as ever, fighting off pregnancy rumors and enjoying a happy marriage with basketball player Tony Parker. But do you know what her first big TV break was?
Latinos Before and After
Her very first TV role was back in 2000, guest-starring in 'Beverly Hills, 90210'. From there, she moved into soap operas. After appearing in 'General Hospital', she played the troubled Isabella Braña Williams in 'The Young and the Restless', from 2001 to 2003.
Latinos Before and After
Paz Vega
The Spanish actress made her English-speaking debut with 2004's 'Spanglish', along Adam Sandler. She recently made quite the impression as an exotic dancer in 'The Spirit'. She has no less than 5 movies coming up this year.
Latinos Before and After
Not looking as glamorous as these days, with a huge sweater and bad hair day, Paz had her breakthrough in cinema with the erotic 2001 movie, 'Lucia y el sexo' (Lucia and Sex). Before that, she appeared in several Spanish television shows.
Latinos Before and After
Jennifer Lopez
According to People en Español, she's the most influential Hispanic in the United States, with a successful career as a singer, actress, dancer, producer, fashion designer and now, mother to twins Max and Emme.
Latinos Before and After
Her first break was as a 'Fly Girl' dancer on the TV show 'In Living Color', in 1990. She then became a back up dancer for Janet Jackson. Afterwards, came 'Selena', 'Anaconda', Ojani Noa, Chris Judd, Diddy, Ben Affleck and finally, Marc Anthony.
Latinos Before and After
Benicio del Toro
The Puerto Rican actor has had a remarkable Hollywood career, with such hits as '21 Grams', 'Sin City', 'Che' and most recently 'The Wolfman'. He won an Academy Award for his supporting role in 'Traffic'.
Latinos Before and After
One of his big breaks was in 1995, with the crime thriller 'The Usual Suspects', a role that landed him an Independent Spirit Award.
Latinos Before and After
Sofía Vergara
The Colombian beauty, currently starring in 'Modern Family', has also been seen on TV's 'Dirty Sexy Money' and 'Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail'. A cool fact is that she starred on the Colombian version of 'Desperate Housewives'.
Latinos Before and After
She was discovered as a teenager at a Colombian beach and soon after, she was doing extensive runways and catalogue model work. After a popular ad campaign for a cola company, and some high profiled romances, the acting bug stung ...
Latinos Before and After
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Check out our gallery of Latino stars when they first started their careers and how they look these days. 
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3 06 10
By TITU CUSI YUPANQUI
SPANIARDS ARE NOT LATINOS. JUST ASK THEM THEY MIGHT JUMP ON THE BAND WAGON NOW THAT LATINOS ARE IMPACTING MANY INDUSTRIES.
THEY ARE EUROPEAN. LATIONS HAVE NO RACE. LATINO PEOPLE ARE THE MELTING POT OF THE WORLD.
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4 10 03
By maria
Penelope Cruz is NOT Latino!!! She is Spanish from Spain!!!!
4 07 04
By Scp
Where does it mention Penelope Cruz?
1 22 08
By Juan
You really need to educate yourself. However, you are right to the point where Spaniards are Europeans and not Latino. You miss the fact that Latino are the South America and Caribbeans, such as the Aztecan Indians in South American and Taino Indians, and West Indians in the Carribeans and Central American are all LATINOS. Wow, How Stupid really are you? NO OFFENSE. Truly we don't want to be called Spaniards either. We are proud not to be Europeans. We are more proud being from the land of Mother Africa.
1 22 08
By Diana Franqui
I wish you people would stop placing yourselfs in your tiny little boxes
WE are all mixed I don't care if you are from Spain or Africa you are not 100% nothing .Check out ancestry.com so you could find out for yourselfs!
0 18 09
By Pat
I think that most people in the USA need enlightenment concerning "Latinos" . First: Latino is not a race. Second:Latinos are a people linked because the root language Latin.Thirdly: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Rumanian (get It? From Rome)and French. All these are Latinos. Hispanic is not a race either. These are people united a common Language which is Spanish.That's all. So, Penelope,you are Latina
5 25 03
By MM
However you feel comfortable saying it hispanic...latino...its sort of all the same in general speaking....its great to see such a wide horizon of Exquisite Beautiful Talent and Art that they provide and such an impact!:-) kudos
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3 22 06
By william
I'm not the final word on this but I think that's Selena Q. P. I really think you need to look again. I know the movie makers made a huge effort to get JL to look like SQP but please review who is whom in this photo.
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3 06 07
By molvinita
Can someone tell me what they're saying about Brad Pit?!
HE'S NOT LATINO, IS HE??
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2 23 08
By miltc777
@Juan, thanks for the most truthful comment on the origin of us all. ;-)
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