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Hollywood Actors
With Jamaican
Bolivian
Roots
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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY: Kerry
Washington is all about her after 3-month-old
daughter Isabelle Amarachi these days as the
countdown begins to ‘Scandal’ Season 4 on
September 25th.
But did you know Washington has Jamaican
roots?
The actress who plays Olivia Pope on the
popular ABC drama was born in The Bronx,
New York City, to Valerie, a professor and
educational consultant, and Earl Washington, a
real estate broker.
Her mother's family is of mixed-race and are
Jamaican Americans. So much so that she is
related to former secretary of state Colin Powell
through her mother’s side of the family.
Washington has said being “African-American
& being Caribbean-American is “a huge part of
who I am.”
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Kerry Washington and her parents at the 2014 IMAGE Awards.
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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY: Bolivian American Actress Ximena Herrera may have
made big news late last year for her divorce from Alex Sirvent but it’s her role on that El
Señor de los Cielos that got her nomínated for the Premios Tu Mundo award.
Herrera graduated from the Televisa's Centro de Educación Artistica (CEA). In Boston, she
studied Marketing which she combined with some acting.
Her very first opportunity to work on television was in the soap opera "Corazones al
límite,"playing Malka.
She has also participated in plays in the USA, and in soap operas such as "Bajo las rienda
del amor," "Niña de mi corazón,“ and"Ni contigo ni sin ti.“
In 2011 Ximena played Isabela, a cleptomaniac woman in the soap opera "Ni contigo ni sin
ti“ melodramatic play produced by Mapat. In 2012, she secured a first role in the TV Series
INFAMES by Argos TV.
She remains on television Ximena Letrán de Casillas on Señor de los Cielos and Aracely
Fernández in Hasta el fin del mundo.
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News Americas, NEW YORK: Karim Dule' Hill’s role in ‘The West Wing’ and ‘Psych’ shot him
to TV fame but a little known fact is that the East Brunswick, New Jersey resident was born
to Jamaican parents Jennifer and Bertram Hill.
His first film role, in ‘Sugar Hill,’ came in 1993 during his second senior year of high school.
During his time at Seton Hall, he was cast in a starring role in ‘Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da
Funk’ on Broadway. In 1999 Hill was cast on ‘The West Wing’ as Charlie Young, personal
aide to President Josiah Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen).
During the sixth season of the series, Charlie became a Special Aide to the Chief of Staff.
Hill starred as Charlie for six seasons before he chose to leave the show at the beginning of
the seventh season (September 2005) to star in the pilot for the new television show ‘Psych’
for the USA Network, which premiered July 7, 2006. However, when the announcement was
made that ‘The West Wing’ would be ending in May 2006, Hill returned for the show's last
episodes.
Hill also had roles in ‘She's All That’ in 1999 starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Rachael Leigh
Cook. He later reunited with Cook & Prinze in ‘Psych,’ as a Los Angeles doctor named
Owen in the movie and series ‘10.5,’ and the Disney movie ‘Holes’ as Sam the Onion Man
and in ‘The Guardian.’ Hill also has appeared on Broadway in ‘Stick Fly’ (December 2011 to
February 2012) and ‘After Midnight.’ (November 2013).
Karim Dule' Hill
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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY:
Reynaldo Pacheco is an actor, known for
‘Beginners’ (2010), ‘Without Men’ (2011) and
‘Right Mind’ (2013). He also was in CSI NEW
YORK "Holding Cell”
Pacheco was born and raised in La Paz,
Bolivia. At 13, he joined a theatre group at La
Salle High School under the direction of Franz
Conchari.
While studying abroad in Brilliant, Ohio at the
age of 17, he produced his own play and joined
the musical theatre group at Jefferson County
Christian School. He went on to the Universidad
Catolica Boliviana to study business and also
join an acting troup. He later joined La rodilla del
telon, a gypsy troup of street performers on the
colonial side of La Paz, and later became one of
the lead performers at the Philharmonic of La
Paz, Bolivia.
Realizing that his passion was overpowering his
business studies, he left Bolivia and started his
liberal education at Wabash College in Indiana,
USA, where he graduated with a BFA in French
and theatre with a political science minor.
While a student at Wabash, Pacheco traveled
abroad to study film, acting and photography at
the Nanterre Universite and Sorbonne
Universite. He later studied theatre history and
writing in a month in a trip to London and
Ecuador.
Pacheco has lived in Chiapas and Oaxaca,
Mexico as a teacher and director for the Mayan
Theatre Troup of SNA Tz Bajom, where he met
Zapatista leaders and traveled around the south
with his production trabajadores del otro mundo.
In 2006, he was one of ten students accepted to
the Masters of Fine Arts in Acting Program at the
University of Southern California, where he
graduated in 2009 and began working in
Hollywood. He is considered one of the most
promising Bolivian actors in Hollywood.
Reynaldo Pacheco
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News Americas, NEW
YORK: Kim Fields, known for
‘The Facts of Life’ (1979),
‘Living Single’ (1993), is of
Jamaican heritage. In 2004,
Kim's grandmother disclosed
that her own parents were
from Jamaica
The mother of two embraced
her heritage in a big way,
committing herself to helping
Jamaican victims of Hurricane
Ivan in 2004.
Fields is currently starring in
the Hallmark Channel original
movie ‘For Better or for
Worse,’ which premiered on
July 19 , 2014 at 9 p.m. ET).
Fields plays the best friend
and coworker of Lisa
Whelchel, a widowed wedding
coordinator who falls for a
divorce attorney.
Interestingly, Fields and
Whelchel, starred in The Facts
of Life in 1979 and are close
friends.
However, while Ms. Fields may
be of Jamaican heritage, she
insists her favorite place to
vacation is St. Lucia.
She is a born again Christian
as is Whelchel.
Fields is divorced and has one
child.
Kim Fields
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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY: Corbin Bleu (High School Musical, the Discovery Kids
drama series Flight 29 Down, the Disney Channel Original Movie Jump In!, Catch That Kid
(2004).and Dancing With The Stars 2013), is out in a new movie entitled, ‘Sugar.’
The Brooklyn-born star’s mother is Italian American and his father is Jamaican American.
Still Bleu says he simply considers himself “Black.”
“No matter what, I consider myself Black when it comes to film roles. That's how general
society sees me. But I have always been able to identify with both my cultures. I have my
Italian side of the family, and when we have dinner it feels like you're in Tony Soprano's
living room. And then my Jamaican family, my grandmother and my great grandmother both
have thick Jamaican accents. My life is a blend. In fact, my mother is an amazing cook and I
always wanted us to open an Italian-Jamaican fusion restaurant. Like, jerk chicken pizza
and curried goat pasta,” he says.
Corbin Bleu
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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY: She is
known as Raquel Welch to the world, a
1960s international sex symbol who took to
the cinematic throne as soon as she emerged
from the sea in her purposely depleted, furry
prehistoric bikini in ‘One Million Years B.C.’
But she was born Jo Raquel Tejada in
Chicago, Illinois to a Bolivian father and an
Anglo mother.
She said her Latin heritage was ignored
growing up. “This made me feel like there
was something wrong with being from
Bolivia,” states Welch in her 2010 memoir
‘Beyond the Cleavage. ‘
When she arrived in Hollywood, film execs
reportedly urged her to lighten her skin and
hair.
“She had to become white because that is
what Hollywood knew how to sell,”
explained Latino Images in Film author
Charles Ramírez Berg.
Welch later had an identity crisis. “I had no
Latin friends,” she said.
So, in 2005, she visited Bolivia to learn more
about her heritage.
In recent years, Welch also played Latino
characters in various roles, including in
Gregory Nava's series “American Family.”
She also starred in the short-lived comedy
Welcome to the Captain (2008), and
appeared in the movies Tortilla Soup (2001),
Legally Blonde (2001) and Forget About It
(2006).
Welch is separated from her fourth husband
Richard Palmer, who is 15 years her junior.
Raquel Welch
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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY: Tonya
Lee Williams, or the former Dr. Olivia
Winters of the ‘Young & the Restless’ soap
opera fame, was born in London to
Jamaican parents.
Her mother was a nurse (now retired) and
her father was a Justice on the Jamaican
Supreme Court and served a five-year term
as a judge on the United Nations tribunal
trying war crimes cases committed during
the Rwanda civil war.
Her family moved to Jamaica when she was
one year old. At age 4-1/2 she contracted
rheumatic fever and was bedridden for six
months. She and her mother moved back to
England when she was five and settled in
Birmingham. When she was 12 they moved
to Oshawa, Canada.
Williams also starred in ‘Polka Dot Door’
(1971) and ‘Poor Boy's Game’ (2007).
Her middle name is not "Lee.“ When she
joined the Screen Actors Guild she was
informed that there were already five
actresses named Tonya Williams on record
and that she had to either change her first
name or add a middle name. Since her
legal middle name of Maxine Gwendolyn
was too long, she came up with "Lee" in
seconds, thinking she could change it later.
However, one job led to another and before
long the industry knew her as Tonya Lee
Williams. She has said that she would still
like to lose the "Lee.“
Williams is the founder of ReelWorld Film
Festival, in Toronto, Canada. The festival
screens features, shorts, documentaries,
animation and music videos, about or by
Aboriginal, Asian, Black, Latino, Middle
Eastern, South Asian and multi-racial
communities.
Tonya Lee Williams
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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY: Carla Ortiz was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia and has
become a veteran of both Spanish and English-language television.
Her film credits include Carla Escríbeme postales a Copacabana (2009), Los Andes no creen
en Dios (2007), Shut Up and Shoot! (2006), Che Guevara (2005) and Mooke (1998).
The Cochabamba native has also focused on her first project as a producer in ‘Forgotten,’ a
film about the murderous Latin American military regimes of the 1970s and 80s. The film was
directed by Mexican Carlos Bolado and produced by Ortiz.
During the 70s and part of the 80s, the military dictatorships in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay left at least 50,000 people killed, 30,000 missing and 400,000
imprisoned. It is, according to the producers, the first Bolivian film that addresses this part of
history.
"With the film can feel Own the missing Condor meat. Are they really lost? On this film we
remember," Ortiz said recently. The movie was released last month. Her work also focuses
the foundation she created to aid thousands of families forced from their homes by a massive
landslide in La Paz.
Carla Ortiz
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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY: Bernardo Peña is an actor, writer and director who was
born n Cochabamba, Bolivia.
He has appeared in 7 films and television shows. He was first cast as the character 'Moreno'
in 'Cielito Lindo' in the year 2007.
Pena has also appeared in ‘Poe in Poe;’ ‘Out of His Mind;’ ‘Ghost Dance’ as Dr. Miller on ‘The
Young and The Restless,’ ‘A Better Life ‘(2007), ‘Cielito lindo ‘(2010) and ‘The Polterguys
‘(2012).
The actor recently returned to his homeland to offer acting classes to young and upcoming
actors.
Bernardo Peña
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