List of Spanish Americans - List; - Entertainment - Actors and Actresses

Actors and Actresses

• Desi Arnaz - (1917-1986) Cuban-born American musician, actor, and television producer.
• Ouida Bergère, (1886 – 1974) Spanish father and English/French mother.
• Luis Alberni - Catalan actor (1886–1962)
• Trini Alvarado - American actress, Puerto Rican Mother and Spanish father.
• Maria Canals Barrera - American actress, voice actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Theresa Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place, Connie Torres in Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
• Carlos Bernard - American actor (24 (TV series)). His mother is of Madrid.
• Diego Boneta - Actor, singer
• Eduardo Cansino, Jr. - (1919–1974) Actor and brother of Rita Hayworth.
• Nestor Carbonell - American actor of Cuban parents of Spanish ancestries (Lost).
• Tia Carrere - American Actress (General Hospital, Relic Hunter). She is of Filipino, Chinese and Spanish descent.
• Leo Carrillo - (1881 – 1961) actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. His great-great grandfather, José Raimundo Carrillo (1749–1809), was a Spanish settler of San Diego, California.
• Charisma Carpenter - American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) of mother of Cherokee and Spanish descent.
• Lynda Carter - Actress best known as the title character in popular 1970 television series Wonder Woman. Born Linda Jean Córdova Carter.
• Darren Criss: American actor. His mother is Philippine of Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino descent.
• Imogene Coca - American actress, her father of Spanish descent.
• Cameron Diaz - Father born to Spanish parents via Cuba.
• Héctor Elizondo - born in New York City, the son of Spanish (Basque)-Puerto Rican parents.
• Joe Estevez- actor and Martin Sheen's brother
• Emilio Estévez - American actor, director, writer. Spanish grandfather from Galicia, Spain.
• Ramón Estévez - American actor, son of Martin Sheen
• Renée Estévez - American actress, daughter of Martin Sheen
• Mel Ferrer - (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008) Cuban father of Spanish descent.
• Martin Garralaga - (10 November 1894, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain - 12 June 1981 Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) Spanish-born film and television actor who portrayed more than 200 roles in film and television.
• Jesse Garcia - actor. His parents are Mexican descent and Spanish.
• Joanna García - mother of Spanish descent.
• William Gaxton - (1893–1963) actor of film and theater.
• Greg Giraldo - (1965–2010) American stand-up comic
• Myrtle Gonzalez - (1891 - 1918) American silent film actress. Spanish father.
• Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez - (1925 – 2006) an American character actor best known for his appearances in a number of John Wayne movies. He was the son of a Mexican American father and a Spanish mother.
• Camille Guaty - family is originally from the Canary Islands.
• Salma Hayek - Her mother is of Spanish descent.
• Rita Hayworth - (1918 – 1987) American actress and icon. His father was Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino, Sr., born in Seville, Spain.
• Tom Hernández - (1915–1984) American actor whose characters were always secondary.
• Pepe Hern (1927–2009) was an American actor whose characters, usually Spanish and Latin, were always secondary. He was brother of Tom Hernández.
• Paz de la Huerta - indie actress and muse of Zac Posen.
• Vanessa Hudgens - Actress and American singer. His father is American of Irish and Amerindian descent and his mother is Filipino of Chinese, Filipino and Spanish descent.
• Lainie Kazan (born May 15, 1940) is an American actress and singer of half Spanish Sephardic ancestry.
• Dorothy Lamour - (1914–1996) Actress of French, Irish and Spanish descent.
• Adele Mara - (April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010) was an American actress, active in the mid 20th-century.
• Ada Maris - Mexican-American actress
• Velia Martinez (1920–1993) Actress, singer and former nightclub dancer.
• Lea Michele - Actress and singer; Has a Spanish-Sephardi Jews father and Italian mother.
• Alfred Molina - English born American naturalized. He is of Spanish and Italian descent.
• Ricardo Montalbán - (1920 – 2009) Mexican radio, television, theatre and film actor to Spanish immigrants parents.
• Carlos Montalbán - Mexican actor brother of Ricardo Montalbán
• Maria Montez - (1912–1951) Dominican actress of Isleño father and considered one of the most beautiful women of her time. Her father was Canarian.
• Antonio Moreno - (1887 – 1967) Spanish-born American educated actor; he was a leading silent film star of the 1920s.
• Morris W. Morris (1845–1906) - Civil War soldier of the Louisiana Native Guards & stage actor.
• Frankie Muniz - Actor (Malcolm in the middle) and racecars driver. His father is Puerto Rican of Asturian (Spanish) descent
• Marisol Nichols - American actress best known for her role in 24 (TV series).
• Margaret O'Brien - Renowned child actress, Spanish mother.
• Nia Peeples - American actress, whose mother is a Filipino of Filipino, German, French and Spanish descent.
• Carlos Pena, Jr. - American actor (Big Time Rush), singer, and dancer. His father is of Spanish and Venezuelan descent, while his mother is of Dominican descent.
• Julio Perillán - American actor of Spanish parents.
• Lou Diamond Phillips - American actor. His mother descends partly from Spanish.
• Tony Plana - American actor of Cuban parents.
• Anita Pomares, better known as Anita Page - was an American film actress primarily in the 1920s and 1930s and later.
• Génesis Rodríguez - American actress. She is the daughter of Venezuelan singer and actor José Luis Rodríguez. his grandfather from of Canary Island.
• Nathalia Ramos - Actress and singer. Spanish father. Played the leading role of Yasmin in Bratz: The Movie.
• Marin Sais - American actress of the silent film era. She is descended of early Castilian settlers of California´s colonial.
• Reni Santoni - American film, television and voice actor. Santoni is of French and Spanish descent
• Sarah Shahi - is an actress and American model of Spanish mother.

• Martin Sheen - Born 'Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez', father from Galicia, Spain.
• Charlie Sheen - American actor, Spanish grandfather.
• Bitsie Tulloch - mother of Spanish descent.
• Alanna Ubach - American actress of Spanish descent.
• Raquel Welch - Born 'Jo Raquel Tejada', American actress of part Spanish-Bolivian descent.
• Elena Verdugo - 1940s Spanish-American actress.
• Charlyne Yi - American actress, comedian, musician, writer, and painter. Her mother, a native of the Philippines, is of Filipino and Spanish descent