The Latino Slant | Latino Portrayals by Non-Latino Actors | Hollywood History
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Hollywood has quite a history of questionable casting practices. This video is a quick historical look.
(NOT FULL LIST)Non-Latino Actors in Latino roles, including Oscar winners and nominations:
Warner Baxter – Cisco Kid (won an Oscar) The Cisco Kid, In Old Arizona
Won: Best Actor in a Leading Role, 1929
George Chakiris – Bernardo, West Side Story
Won: Best Supporting Actor 1961
William Hurt – Luis Molina, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Won: Best Actor, 1986
Jennifer Connelly – Alicia Nash, A Beautiful Mind
Won: Best Supporting Actress, 2001
Jennifer Jones- Pearl Chavez, Duel in the Sun
Nominated: Best Actress in a Leading Role, 1947
Marlon Brando – Emiliano Zapata, Viva Zapata!
Nominated: Best Actor in a Leading Role, 1952
Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Mask of Zorro
Natalie Wood in West Side Story
Al Pacino in Scarface
Hank Azaria in The Birdcage
John Turturro in The Big Lebowski
Glen Close and Meryl Streep in “The House of Spirits ” (completely whitewashed this film)
Madonna in Evita
Armand Assante in The Mambo Kings
Ethan Hawke in Alive
Johnny Depp in Before Night Falls
Ben Affleck in Argo
Juliette Binoche in The 33
Charlie Hunnam in American Drug Lord
Carey Mulligan in Drive
Will Ferrell in Casa de Mi Padre
Jack Black in Nacho Libre
Charles Heston in Touch of Evil
Charles Heston in Hell to Eternity
Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart
Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight
Esther Williams – Fiesta
Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Godmother
D. J. Cotrona as Pedro Peña in Shazam
(NOT FULL LIST) Latinos in Non Latino Roles (mostly Science Fiction roles)
James Edward Olmos – Battlestar Galactica, Captain Adama
Clifton Collins Jr. – various, played a Romulan in the Abrams Star Trek film
Steven Bauer – Ray Donovan (he played a Jewish ex-Mossad agent)
Rita Moreno – one or two non Latin roles.
Jose Ferrer – Cyrano De Bergerec (Only Latino who’s ever won an Oscar for Best Actor), various others He was the first Puerto Rican-born actor and the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award (in 1950 for Cyrano de Bergerac).
Gina Torres – Westworld, Firefly, various sci-fi shows
Henry Darrow – one or two non Latin roles.
Ricardo Montalban – Star Trek (Khan was Indian/SouthWest Asian), arguably Mr. Rourke from Fantasy I.
Anthony Quinn.
Anya Taylor Joy.
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