Curated playlist
Hispanic and Latino American actresses
- Cameron DiazCameron Diaz had never acted a day in her life when she auditioned for The Mask at the age of 21. The part was Tina Carlyle, a jazz singer, and she won it. Only after the casting did she begin taking acting lessons. Diaz was born in 1972,…
- 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…
- Eva MendesEva Mendes, born Eva de la Caridad Méndez, played a cabaret performer named Cat in her final film, Lost River, in 2014. The film was the directorial debut of Ryan Gosling, and it competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film…
- Zoe SaldañaZoe Saldaña is the highest grossing actor in history, a title that sits oddly beside a childhood spent speaking Spanish at home in Queens. In 2023, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her road to…
- 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…
- Christina AguileraChristina Aguilera sang "A Sunday Kind of Love" on the television contest Star Search in 1990 and was eliminated in the semi-final round. That loss decided nothing. She would go on to sell more than 100 million records worldwide, and…
- Camila CabelloCamila Cabello was told she was going to Walt Disney World. She was between six and seven years old, and the promise was her mother's way of coaxing a child toward a new country. The real destination was Miami, reached after a 36-hour ride…
- Courtney LoveCourtney Love walked on stage at the Reading Festival on the 26th of August 1994 as the singer of Hole. It was her first public performance since the death of her husband, the Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. MTV called the set "by turns…
- 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…
- Selena GomezIn 2016, Selena Gomez became the first person to reach 100 million followers on Instagram, a milestone Time later singled out in its Firsts series. Gomez is an American actress, singer, songwriter, businesswoman, and producer, born in…
- Jenna OrtegaJenna Ortega was nine years old when her mother bought her a monologue book and posted a video of her performing online. A casting director saw the video and signed her to an agency. That single upload set off a career that would one day…
- Cassie VenturaCassie Ventura is an American singer, dancer, actress and model whose first single, "Me & U", climbed to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2006. Only one other song of hers has ever appeared on that chart. Her path to that moment…
- 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…
- Bella ThorneBella Thorne is an American actress, singer and writer who, in August 2020, joined the subscription platform OnlyFans and had earned one million dollars within twenty-four hours. Nobody had reached that figure so fast on the site before…