Eva Tamargo (born December 24, 1960) is an American actress, best known for her roles as

Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV soap opera ''Passions''. Pilar was played by Eva Tamargo during the entire run of the show. Character history Early life Pilar is the matriarch of the Lopez-Fitzgerald family. Sh ...

on the NBC daytime soap opera ''

Passions ''Passions'' is an American television soap opera that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1999, to September 7, 2007, and on DirecTV's The 101 Network from September 17, 2007, to August 7, 2008. Created by screenwriter James E. Reilly and ...

'' (1999—2008), and as Celine Gonzales in the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera '' The Haves and the Have Nots''.

Life and career

Tamargo was born in

Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, to Cuban immigrants. She was married to Michael Lemus from 1985 to 2003 and is sometimes credited as "Eva Tamargo Lemus". She is the daughter of the Cuban journalist Agustin Tamargo and Rosalba Nápoles. She has two children, Matthew and Gabriella. From 1999 to 2008 Tamargo played

in NBC soap opera ''

''. Tamargo is also known in the international Latino community for her work on the daytime telenovela ''El Magnate'' as well as the reality dating show ''La Cenicienta''. She has appeared in television, radio and print commercials as well as stage work with the Repertorio Español in New York City. She also starred in ''

Marielena ''Marielena'' is a Spanish-language telenovela written by Delia Fiallo. It premiered on Telemundo in 1992, and starred Lucía Méndez and Eduardo Yáñez. The telenovela was originally aired in a few dozen countries around the world. Premise ...

'' and ''

Más Sabe el Diablo ''Más Sabe el Diablo'' (Literally "The Devil Knows More", "Falling Angel" in English-speaking markets) is a successful Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo.Hayes, David (2008-05-12). "Tel ...

'', and a guest appearance on '' NCIS''. In 2013 Tamargo was cast as Celine Gonzales, the spiteful domestic of John Schneider and Reneé Lawless in Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera '' The Haves and the Have Nots''. As of June 2020, Tamargo signed an exclusive management deal with Chris Giovanni at CGEM Talent in Los Angeles.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tamargo, Eva 1960 births Living people Hispanic and Latino American actresses American soap opera actresses American telenovela actresses People from Brooklyn Actresses from New York City American television actresses 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses