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American people of Spanish descent

  • Salma HayekSalma Hayek was once told, after arriving in the United States, that her accent would make moviegoers think of housekeepers. In 2023, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2021, she received a star…
  • Charlie SheenCharlie Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television in 2010, earning US$1.8 million for every episode of the sitcom Two and a Half Men. He had been born Carlos Irwin Estévez, and he grew up in a household where acting was the family…
  • Marco RubioThe New York Times dubbed Marco Rubio the "Secretary of Everything," a nickname earned by holding several government posts at the same moment. Few American officials have ever carried that kind of workload. Fewer still arrived by a road as…
  • Cardi BCardi B reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated the 25th of September 2017, with a song called "Bodak Yellow." No solo female rapper had topped that chart since Lauryn Hill's "Doo Wop (That Thing)" in 1998. The woman behind…
  • Jessica ChastainJessica Chastain missed so many days of her final year at El Camino Fundamental High School in Sacramento that she did not qualify for graduation. Many of those days went to reading Shakespeare. She later earned an adult diploma. In 2022,…
  • Carly SimonCarly Simon, an American singer, songwriter and author, recorded a line that strangers still sing back at her: "You're so vain, I bet you think this song is about you." Listeners have argued about the target of that accusation ever since.…
  • Anya Taylor-JoyAnya Taylor-Joy was born in Miami on the 16th of April 1996, in a city her parents were only visiting on vacation. She calls her birth there a "fluke". That accident gave her American citizenship. She nevertheless grew up in Buenos Aires…
  • Aubrey PlazaAubrey Plaza once ran onto the stage of the MTV Movie Awards and grabbed Will Ferrell's award for Comedic Genius. The year was 2013. She held a drink in one hand. The title of her new film, The To Do List, was written across her chest. The…
  • Pope Leo XIVBefore the 2025 conclave, the future Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, explained his chances to a friend by text message. "I'm an American, I can't be elected," he wrote. He was elected anyway. This documentary follows a path…
  • Rachel Campos-DuffyRachel Campos-Duffy, who was then simply Rachel Campos, moved into a house on Russian Hill in San Francisco on the 12th of February 1994. Six housemates moved in with her, and MTV's cameras were there to record what followed. That reality…
  • Ana de ArmasAna de Armas grew up in Cuba on a tight screen budget. In her own words, it was "20 minutes of cartoons on Saturday and the Sunday movie matinee." In 2022 she played Marilyn Monroe in the film Blonde. The performance earned her an Academy…
  • David FarragutLashed to the mast so he would not fall, David Farragut led a fleet into a mined bay.

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