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Lupita Nyong'o By Gage Skidmore
Lupita is short for Lupe or shortening Guadalupita, diminutive of Guadalupe. It may refer to: People *Lupita D'Alessio (born 1954), Mexican singer and actress *Lupita Ferrer (born 1943), Venezuelan actress *Lupita González (born 1989), Mexican racewalker *Lupita Infante, American singer-songwriter *Lupita Jones (born 1968), Mexican businesswoman, former model and beauty queen *Lupita Nyong'o (born 1983), Kenyan-Mexican actress *Lupita Pallás (1926–1985), Mexican actress and dancer *Lupita Tovar (1910–2016), Mexican actress Other uses *La Lupita, Mexican Latin rock band *Lupita dolls, traditional dolls in Mexico *Miss Lupita project, project based in Mexico City See also *Guadalupe (other) Guadalupe or Guadeloupe may refer to: Places Bolivia * Guadalupe, Potosí Brazil * Guadalupe, Piauí, a municipality in the state of Piauí * Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro, a neighbourhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro Colombia * Guadalupe, A ... * Lupe (other) {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupita D'Alessio
Lupita D'Alessio (, born Guadalupe Contreras Ramos on 10 March 1954 in (Mexico City, México) is a Mexican singer and actress. She is nicknamed ''La Leona Dormida'' (a title of one of her songs, which translates to "The sleeping lioness"). Biography She started her career in showbusiness with her father Poncho D'Alessio, who had a musical show called ''La Familia D'Alessio'' on a Tijuana television station. She then moved to Mexico City and released a single "Mi Corazón es un Gitano", a cover of the Italian song "Il Cuore è Uno Zingaro" which won the Sanremo Music Festival, both in 1971. Then she was selected to perform the theme song of the telenovela of Televisa titled ''Mundo de juguete''. She was invited to take roles on ''Ana del Aire'' and other productions in the 1970s and 1980s. Lupita sang the title song of telenovela ''Pacto de Amor'', where she also acted. In 1978, she won the Mexican national final to select the country's entrant in the seventh edition of the OTI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupita Ferrer
Lupita Ferrer (born December 6, 1947) is a Venezuelan theater, film and television actress. She is known as a "Queen" of telenovelas and one of the most famous Spanish speaking telenovela actresses of all time. Biography Ferrer was born as Yolanda Guadalupe Ferrer in Maracaibo to Spanish immigrant parents. She became known for her beauty (especially her large and expressive eyes) and her strong theatrical presence. Ferrer has a theatrical background. She started at the age of 15 performing in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as Ofelia. At the age of 18, then Venezuelan President Raul Leoni saw her performing in the piece "Dona Rosita La Soltera" ("Dona Rosita, the single one"), and was greatly impressed by her talent. In the 1960s Ferrer worked in many Mexican and Venezuelan-Mexican film co-productions next to actors like Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", and during the 1970s worked in Hollywood movies sharing the screen with actors like Tony Curtis. Her first telenovelas were ''Esmeralda'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupita González
María Guadalupe González Romero (born 9 January 1989), better known as Lupita González, is a Mexican racewalker. She was the gold medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games and is the national record holder in the 20 kilometres race walk. Career Raised in the State of Mexico, she first emerged as an elite level walker in the 2013 season. The 2013 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics saw her claim the 10,000 metres race walk gold medal for the host nation. She soon established herself as the nation's best walker, with a new Mexican national record of 1:28:48 at the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, where she placed 16th overall in the 20 kilometres race walk event. She also broke the 15 km walk record en route to that distance. On her debut appearance at the 2015 Pan American Race Walking Cup she was a clear winner in the 20 km walk, crossing the line in a championship record time of 1:29:21 hours – nearly two minutes ahead of runner-up Kimberly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupita Infante
Lupita Infante Esparza is an American singer-songwriter. She sings traditional mariachi, norteño, and ranchera music. Infante's debut studio album ''La Serenata'' (2019) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Music Album (including Tejano). In 2020, her song "Dejaré" was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award. Infante advocates for women's empowerment through her music. Early life Lupita Infante Esparza is the daughter of Marisol Esparza and actor . Her paternal grandparents are Mexican performers and Pedro Infante. Infante's mother moved to the United States from Zacatecas when she was 16. Infante was raised in a working class family in Downey, California. While in college, Infante worked at a senior and community center where she would sometimes sing. She completed a degree in ethnomusicology at University of California, Los Angeles, in 2017. To pay for school, Infante was a driver for Uber and Lyft and worked as a music teacher. Career In 2017, Infan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupita Jones
María de Guadalupe "Lupita" Jones Garay (, ; born 6 September 1967) is a Mexican television producer, model, actress, and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1991. She was the first Mexican contestant to win the crown. Since 1994, Jones has been the national director of the Mexican division of the Mexicana Universal franchise. To date, she has produced two Miss Universe titleholders, Ximena Navarrete (2010) and Andrea Meza (2020). Jones was a candidate for the Governor of Baja California, governorship of Baja California in the 2021 Mexican gubernatorial elections. Education Lupita Jones got her business administration degree before becoming Miss Universe and also did postgraduate studies in industrial administration at the Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior at her native city of Mexicali, Baja California. Pageantry Señorita Mexico In September 1990, Jones won the title of Señorita México representing the state of Baja California. Miss Universe On 17 May 1991, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (, ; ; born 1 March 1983) is a Kenyan-Mexican actress. She is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Lupita Nyong'o, several accolades, including an Academy Awards, Academy Award, and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Awards, Tony Award. The daughter of Kenyan politician Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, she was born in Mexico City, where her father was teaching, and was raised in Kenya from the age of three. She attended college in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree in film and theatre studies from Hampshire College. She later began her career in Hollywood as a production assistant. In 2008, she made her acting debut with the short film ''East River (film), East River'' and subsequently returned to Kenya to star in the television series ''Shuga (TV series), Shuga'' (2009–2012). She then pursued a master's degree in acting from the Yale School of Drama. Soon after her graduation, she had her first feature film rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupita Pallás
Guadalupe "Lupita" Pallás Téllez (29 April 1926 – 23 November 1985) was a Mexican actress and dancer. The wife of character actor Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo and the mother of comedian Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo, she died (along with her daughter, Laila Guadalupe Ortiz de Pinedo Pallás) during a terrorist attack aboard their flight from Greece to Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter .... eluniversal.com. 23 March 2011. Filmography Television work References ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupita Tovar
Guadalupe Natalia Tovar (27 July 1910 – 12 November 2016), known professionally as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-born American actress best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of '' Drácula'', filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director. She also starred in the 1932 film ''Santa,'' one of the first Mexican sound films, and one of the first commercial Spanish-language sound films. Early life Tovar was born in Matías Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico, the daughter of Egidio Tovar, who was from Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico, and Mary Tovar (née Sullivan), who was Irish-Mexican, from Matías Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico. Tovar was the oldest of nine children, though many of her siblings did not survive early childhood. Tovar grew up during the time of the Mexican Revolution and her family was very poor. She was raised in a very religious Catholic environment, and went to a scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Lupita
La Lupita is a Mexican band that combines rock and Latin music. Their lyrics are humorous and sometimes sarcastic. They released their first album, ''Pa' Servir a Ud'', in 1992, combining heavy metal, norteñas, disco music, funk, mambo, and pop. They recorded their next album, ''Que Bonito es Casi Todo'', two years later in London. They released their third album, known as ''3D'', in 1996; their fourth album, ''Caramelo Macizo'', in 1998; and their fifth album, ''Lupitología'', a compilation, in 2004. Original members *Hector Quijada: Vocals *Rosa Adame: Vocals *Lino Nava: Guitar *Poncho Toledo: Bass *Ernesto "Bola" Domene: Drums *Michel DeQuevedo: Percussion Current members *Hector Quijada: Vocals *Rosa Adame: Vocals *Lino Nava: Guitar *Luis Fernando Alejo: Bass *Paco Godoy: Drums Other members *Miguel Rodríguez: Bass *Mayo Mello: Bass *Sarahí "La de Santa Maria del Nabo": Vocals *Daniel "El Piolín": Drums *Enrique Garcia: Percussions *Tomás Pérez Ascencio: Drums R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupita Dolls
Lupita dolls, also known as cartonería dolls, are toys made from a very hard kind of papier-mâché which has its origins about 200 years ago in central Mexico. They were originally created as a substitute for the far more expensive porcelain dolls and maintained popularity until the second half of the 20th century, with its availability of plastic dolls. Today they are made only by certain artisans’ workshops in the city of Celaya, as collectors’ items. Since the 1990s, there have been efforts to revitalize the crafts by artists such as María Eugenia Chellet and Carolina Esparragoza sponsored by the government to maintain traditional techniques but update the designs and shapes. The dolls A Lupita doll is a kind of papier-mâché doll which was made primarily by the poor along with those from straw, wood and rags. The papier-mâché technique is properly called cartonería, making a very hard surface when dry. This technique has been used to make a number of crafts up to thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Lupita Project
Miss Lupita is a project based in Mexico City with the aim of reviving the traditional craft of Lupita dolls. The dolls originated in the late 18th and early 19th century as a way to cheaply copy more expensive imported dolls for poorer families. The dolls are made from a very hard form of papier-mâché called “cartonería” which is also used to create alebrijes and skeletal figures for Day of the Dead. However, the craft has waned with the only workshops making and selling them located in Celaya in the state of Guanajuato, mostly as collector’s items. The project’s aim was to create more contemporary designs through a series of free workshops to the public. The resulting dolls have been displayed in Mexico City, Japan and Portugal and featured in a number of Mexican publications. Lupita dolls Miss Lupita is named after “Lupita” (diminutive for Guadalupe) dolls. These are hard papier-mâché dolls with origins in the late colonial to early Independence period, created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guadalupe (other)
Guadalupe or Guadeloupe may refer to: Places Bolivia * Guadalupe, Potosí Brazil * Guadalupe, Piauí, a municipality in the state of Piauí * Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro, a neighbourhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro Colombia * Guadalupe, Antioquia, a municipality and town * Guadalupe, Huila, a municipality and town * Guadalupe, Santander, a municipality and town * Guadalupe Hill, a hill in Bogotá Costa Rica * Guadalupe, Costa Rica, a suburb of San José, Costa Rica El Salvador * Guadalupe, San Vicente France * Guadeloupe, a French overseas department in the Caribbean Mexico * Guadalupe, Baja California * Guadalupe, Chihuahua * Guadalupe, Nuevo León, part of the metropolitan area of Monterrey * Guadalupe Etla, Oaxaca * Guadalupe, Puebla, see Municipalities of Puebla * Guadalupe, Zacatecas * Guadalupe de Ramírez, Oaxaca * Guadalupe y Calvo, Chihuahua * Villa de Guadalupe, Mexico City, a town near Mexico City, now a suburb incorporated into the city * Presa de Guadalup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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