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Maria Alonso

  • Birthplace: Cienfuegos, Cuba
  • Birthday: June 29, 1957

Maria Conchita Alonso began her performing career after competing in and winning beauty-pageants (Miss Teenager of the World 1971, Miss Venezuela 1975). The Cuban-born, Venezuelan-raised dark-haired beauty subsequently became one of South America's best-selling recording artists before becoming established as one of Hollywood's leading Hispanic actresses with her role in "Moscow on the Hudson" (1984), opposite Robin Williams. For a time in the late 1980s, she was in demand and starred alongside many of the leading male actors of the day. Alonso…more

Career Milestones

  • 2006

    Cast on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," as Gabrielle's mother, Lucia

  • 2006

    Cast opposite Hilary and Haylie Duff in the comedy "Material Girls"

  • 2000

    Cast as a dying woman in "Knockout"

  • 2000

    Had featured role as the sheriff's mistress in the TNT remake of "High Noon"

  • 2000

    Played the US Vice President in the thriller "Chain of Command" (aired on HBO in lieu of a theatrical release)

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