Renée Victor, an American actress greatest identified for her position as Abuelita within the Disney animated movie “Coco” and her efficiency as Lupita on the Showtime drama “Weeds,” has died.
The information of Victor’s demise was confirmed by her consultant.
A San Antonio, Texas native, Victor left the Lone Star State for Los Angeles within the ’60s to start out her budding profession in leisure. She began within the music enterprise as a singer for well-liked acts and was a salsa and tango instructor on the facet. Victor helped convey outstanding Latin musicians like Perez Prado and Xavier Cugat to American music followers.
From 1963 to 1973, Victor introduced her personal spin to the Latin music scene and toured together with her husband beneath the title “Ray & Renée.”
Considered one of her first main TV appearances was because the host of the KTLA program “Pacesetters,” which adopted the Chicano Motion of the ’70s. Quickly after, she started to transition to movie and TV work and joined the Display screen Actors Guild in 1973. Her early credit embody reveals like “Matlock” and “Scarecrow and Mrs. King.” On the large display, she has roles in “A Evening in Outdated Mexico,” “The Physician” and “The Apostle.”
A few of her different TV credit embody “The Addams Household” animated present, “The Tony Danza Present,” “Crew Knight Rider,” “4 Corners,” “ER,” “Home of Payne,” “Kids’s Hospital” and the “Snowpiercer” TV adaptation. On the movie facet, Victor appeared in “The Great Ice Cream Swimsuit,” “Stuntmen,” “SuperFly,” “Confessions of a Shopaholic” and “Paranormal Exercise: The Marked Ones.”
Victor additionally did voice work for the “Elder Scrolls” collection of video games, with roles in 2011’s “Skyrim” and the not too long ago launched “Oblivion Remastered.”
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