Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald is a fictional character on the
NBC/
DirecTV soap opera ''
Passions'', portrayed from 1999 to 2008 by original cast member
Galen Gering. Debuting in the series' premiere episode, Luis is introduced as an honest, hard-working
Irish-
Mexican
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*Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America
** People
*** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants
*** Mexica, ancient indigenous people ...
police officer who bitterly blames the wealthy
Crane family
Crane is a surname. The name is a derivative from "Cron" in Old English or is the English translation of the German "Krahn" or "Kranich." According to The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain & Ireland, "Cron," "Krahn" and "Kranich" all mea ...
for his
father and
elder brother
''The Elder Brother'' is an early seventeenth-century English stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. Apparently dating from 1625, it may have been the last play Fletcher worked on before his August 1625 death.
Dat ...
's disappearances. Luis is forced to re-examine his prejudice against the Cranes, however, when he falls in love with the beautiful but willful
Sheridan Crane.
Luis and Sheridan's
love-hate relationship made the pairing one of the soap's leading
supercouple
A supercouple or super couple (also known as a power couple) is a popular and/or wealthy pairing that intrigues and fascinates the public in an intense or obsessive fashion. The term originated in the United States, and it was coined in the earl ...
s, along with
Ethan Winthrop and
Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald, early in its run. However, after two failed weddings and the birth of a
son, who is subsequently kidnapped by Luis's