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Colombian actress Sofia Vergara is the highest paid actress on American television

Mexican Demian Bichir stars in one of the great Americans of the time series, “The Bridge”, while Sofia Vergara is the highest paid actress of television in the U.S., and Eva Longoria produces a number of Latinas in Beverly Hills . A documentary series by public broadcaster PBS review the Latin influence in transforming U.S. in the last five centuries.

Bichir, he found it “strange” as Efe confessed that American television had not laid hands on her “rich neighbor” to bring the “hundreds of good stories along this border as large”.

In the wake of his compatriot Ricardo Montalban, who starred in the seventies and eighties of the last century the series “Fantasy Island”, Bichir remember that other Latinos, as America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”), Edward James Olmos (“Battle star Galactic”) and Jimmy Smits (“Sons of anarchy”) have had success on American television.

But the truth is that in “The brigde” given the fact that, besides including acting talent, you deal with issues that affect Latinos directly, as it takes place around the border bridge linking the towns of El Paso (USA) and Ciudad Juarez (Mexico) and you can see “the different personalities on both sides of the border” and also “all the problems they have in common,” said Mexican actor.

And there are “many stories” to tell about the Latin world on American television, says Bichir, who was nominated for an Oscar for best actor in 2012 for “A Better Life”, where he played a Mexican immigrant U.S.

For now, the Latino power in U.S. television has been released to make their own series, starting with Eva Longoria, one of the pioneers in this field with the series “Devious maids”, which is executive produced and narrates the story of Hispanic housekeepers in Beverly Hills (Los Angels).

The series premiered on Lifetime last June is starring Dania Ramirez, Roselyn Sanchez, Ana Ortiz, Edy Ganem and Judy Reyes, and revolves around a murder mystery in a mansion in an exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Meanwhile, the Colombian actress Sofia Vergara, after becoming the highest paid actress on American television – with revenues of about $ 20 million, according to Forbes magazine – has had the pleasure of shooting in Spanish five-part soap opera to be broadcast throughout Latin America.

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his fourth Emmy nomination for that are delivered on September 22 means an award for best actress for her work on the series “Modern Family” actress explained that Colombia has “a lot of fun doing this special project “, which spoke only Spanish.

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actress just launched as an executive producer of the series “Killer women” and also used to invest in businesses such as casual clothes, you will surely swell their television revenue, which exceeds Kim Kardashian and Eva Longoria, with about 20 million.

Besides entertainment, America will address the issue in all its breadth in the documentary series on PBS chain “Latin Americans”, which opens on September 17 in order to review the influence of this population in the transformation of the United States for more than 500 years.

The film, six hours, will air in the U.S. on the occasion of Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins in September and charged with presenting in Puerto Rico has been Rita Moreno, the first Latina actress to win an Oscar in 1962 for “Wide Side history”.

Puerto Rican actress, 81, acknowledged that Latino artists have made great strides in recognizing the mecca of entertainment, but also stressed that much remains to be done: “The door is open, but not so open. I keep hoping that there is a role for a woman or man, actor or actress, maybe you win an Oscar nomination and that has not happened, “said Moreno at the University of Turabo in Gurabo, a city southeast of Puerto Rico.

Moreno, the first and only Hispanic actress to have won an Emmy, an Oscar, a Golden Globe, Grammy and Tony, recalled that the part of such discrimination she experienced when she played Anita in “West side history “.

Puerto Rican actress is one of the Hispanic figures who have told their stories to the PBS documentary, narrated by actor Benjamin Bratt and which also featured personalities such as Herman Badillo, Dolores Huerta and Gloria Estefan, among others.

social evolution today has shifted to the economic, as studies indicate that Hispanics with incomes above the 50,000 per year are more and in the coming years will become critical population segment in the U.S. consumption patterns

Hispanic Association of Advertising Agencies (AHHA) has been estimated at 15 million so-called “upscale Latino” or “Hispanic influentials”, which represents 29% of all U.S. Hispanic population

that percentage is expected to double by 2050, according to the study “America’s new upscale segment: Latinos,” prepared by the measurement firm Nielsen markets for the AHHA.