Justin Bieber's gal pal Selena Gomez is half Mexican-American, with family roots in North Texas.
Penelope Cruz is Spain's most famous and celebrated actress, with BAFTA, ALMA and Academy Awards under her belt
Salma Hayek
The sizzling Salma Hayek has made it a personal mission to create more roles for Hispanic actors in the entertainment industry. In 2006, she co-adapted the Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea for U.S. television, becoming executive producer of the beloved television series Ugly Betty.
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
is perhaps the world's most recognizable Latina superstar, as she
helped to usher in the so-called "Latin explosion" in the late '90s
music industry and hasn't rested since.
Demi Lovato
Disney starlet Demi Lovato is of Mexican, Irish and Italian descent. The dark-eyed beauty recorded one of her Camp Rock hits in Spanish—perhaps a full-length album is in the mix someday.
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera is long estranged from her Ecuadorian father, but she remains proud of her Latina roots. In 2000, she released Mi Reflejo, a Spanish-language studio album that went on to sell 3 million copies worldwide.
Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes
landed one of her first roles in Will Smith's music video for "Miami,"
in which she sassily called out, "¡Ay Papi!" The Cuban-American actress
told Interview
in 2008, "We are the future ... I don't mean Latinos, I just mean
ethnic diversity. I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish
without an accent.
Eva Longoria
Texas native Eva Longoria
is active in the Hispanic American community; She even enrolled in a
Master's program in Chicano Studies at CSU Northridge in 2009.
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz's
late father Emilio was a Cuban-American who traced his roots back to
Spain. The beachy blond identifies as a Latina, once telling an interviewer,
"My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and
blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am...Being Latin
is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role."
Daisy Fuentes
Born in Havana, Cuba, model and television personality Daisy Fuentes shot to fame as MTV's first Latina VJ. She explained to Latina
magazine, “I always thought of it as, I have a whole other language I
can do this in, a whole other culture I can bring to the table.
