Date of Birth
17 September 1942,
El Paso, Texas, USA
Height
4' 11" (1.50 m)
Spouse
Elias Ontiveros
(? - ?)
Trade
Mark
Playing Housekeepers/Maids
Trivia
Has worked part-time as a social worker.Graduate of
Texas women's
University, with majors in psychology and
social work.Has three sons.
She estimates
she has played a maid in at least 150 films or plays. She narrated a documentary, "Maid in
America".
She is
best known in the
Latino community for her portrayal of
Yolanda Saldivar, the murderer of
Selena in the movie Selena, and to Anglo audiences as the housekeeper on
The Goonies (1985).Two of
Lupe's three sons are
hearing impaired.
LUPE, as a
young woman, worked in her own
mother's small factory for a few months with
women not unlike those working in
the sweatshop in '
Real Women Have Curves (2002)'Where Are They Now
(2000) Currently living in
Pico Rivera,
California with husband and sons.

Actress
Lupe Ontiveros takes ...
Lupe. ONTIVEROS
Date of Birth
17 September 1942,
El Paso, Texas, USA
Height
4' 11" (1.50 m)
Spouse
Elias Ontiveros
(? - ?)
Trade
Mark
Playing Housekeepers/Maids
Trivia
Has worked part-time as a social worker.Graduate of
Texas women's
University, with majors in psychology and
social work.Has three sons.
She estimates
she has played a maid in at least 150 films or plays. She narrated a documentary, "Maid in
America".
She is
best known in the
Latino community for her portrayal of
Yolanda Saldivar, the murderer of
Selena in the movie Selena, and to Anglo audiences as the housekeeper on
The Goonies (1985).Two of
Lupe's three sons are
hearing impaired.
LUPE, as a
young woman, worked in her own
mother's small factory for a few months with
women not unlike those working in
the sweatshop in '
Real Women Have Curves (2002)'Where Are They Now
(2000) Currently living in
Pico Rivera,
California with husband and sons.

Actress
Lupe Ontiveros takes ...
Lupe. ONTIVEROS