Constance Marie

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1965 age 0

   Born

2. 1997 age 32

   CreditSelena

• JSJon Seda1 title
• SLSeidy López1 title
• JLJennifer Lopez1 title
• EOEdward James Olmos1 title
• NRNancy Richardson1 title
• DGDave Grusin1 title
• LOLupe Ontiveros1 title
• ELEdward Lachman1 title
• JVJacob Vargas1 title
• GNGregory Nava1 title

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  Photo:Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of AmericaCC BY-SA 2.0

• I am a vegetarian and so is my baby! … I became a vegetarian in small stages starting at the ripe old age of 16 years old! … When I turned 16 I started to get a little freaked out if while I was eating my KFC, I looked at my chicken drum sticks too long. If I noticed the veins or cartilage etc. … I started to see that it was once an actual living breathing animal. … I have this beautiful baby girl and I have a choice to make. Do I feed her meat? Or no? I went with my gut, I had learned over the years how to feed myself healthy, and made sure I got enough iron, so I would do the same for Luna Marie… I knew nothing else.

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• I have not eaten beef for 26 years. Chicken, poultry for 16 years. Fish for six, if forced to I will eat shrimp.

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• …Back then, it was very difficult for Latinos to even play their own roles, even if it was written for a Latin character. This was an event where they were actually changing the role to make it Latin, and I was just very proud to be able to change it. To not only have this be my first acting role, but have it be a little bit groundbreaking…

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• …On many levels there is the class system, which exists anywhere. There were all the clichéd roles, which I very much tried to stay away from. Not that I looked down upon them, but that’s not what resonated with me. I can trace my family’s roots in the United States back to 1850. So technically, half my family never crossed any border. We were just always here...

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• …I’m used to living here in America and being the only Latino person in the room. So I am often literally representing us Latinos…But it was more important to just do quality work, not so much just as a Latin actress, but as an actress. There’s pressure just in that. It’s so funny, my mom always said to me, “Life is pressure. You’ve just got to deal with it.”

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• Family to me is foundation. It’s the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they’re there for you...

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