Top 15 Most Influential Hispanic Women of All times

A photo of Rita Hayworth by Ned Scott – Wikimedia commons

Top 15 Most Influential Hispanic Women of All times

Hispanic heritage, language, and culture is an attributes of Hispanic influencers in the world today. Of course, Hispanic women have blended into the male society and there is a chance that they are also amongst the leading influencers either in fields of entertainment, politics, and many other significant places of concern.

From the article, you are likely to discover Hispanic women influencers whom you are likely to follow on your social media handles. Therefore, in the article are the top 15 most influential Hispanic women of all times.

1. Rita Hayworth

A photo of Rita Hayworth by Ned Scott – Wikimedia commons

Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer and producer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era’s top stars, appearing in 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term “The Love Goddess” to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II.

Hayworth is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1946 film noir Gilda, opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic role. In 1980, Hayworth was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, which contributed to her death in 1987 at age 68.

2. Gina Rodriguez

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Gina Alexis Rodriguez is an American actress. She is known for her leading role as Jane Villanueva in The CW satirical romantic dramedy series Jane the Virgin (2014–2019), for which she received a Golden Globe Award in 2015.

Born and raised in Chicago, Rodriguez began her career in 2003 in theatre productions and made her screen debut in an episode of the police procedural drama series Law & Order. Her breakthrough came in 2012, in the independent musical-drama film Filly Brown.

3. Michelle Rodriguez

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Mayte Michelle Rodriguez is an American actress and screenwriter. Rodriguez began her career in 2000, playing a troubled boxer in the independent sports drama Girlfight, where she won the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance.

4. Isabela Merced

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Isabela Yolanda Moner, known professionally as Isabela Merced since 2019, is an American actress and singer. Merced has said that she wanted to be an actress from a very young age, inspired by movies featuring Shirley Temple and Judy Garland and starting in local community theatre at age six.

Her dreams came through and she played the lead role of CJ Martin on the Nickelodeon television series 100 Things to Do Before High School (2014–2016) and voiced Kate in Nickelodeon’s animated spinoff series Dora and Friends: Into the City! (2014–2017).

5. Sofía Vergara

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Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is a Colombian and American actress and model. She was the highest-paid actress in American television from 2013 to 2020. Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for the Spanish-language television network Univision in the late 1990s.

Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi (2003). She subsequently appeared in Four Brothers (2005) and Tyler Perry’s comedies Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter.

Vergara has also had roles in the films The Smurfs (2011), New Year’s Eve (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Machete Kills (2013), Fading Gigolo (2013), Chef (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015). She also had voice-over roles in the animated films Happy Feet Two (2011) Escape from Planet Earth (2013), and The Emoji Movie (2017).

6. Bella Thorne

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Annabella Avery Thorne is an American actress, singer, and writer. She first received recognition for her roles as Margaux Darling in the series Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2008) and as Ruthy Spivey in the drama series My Own Worst Enemy (2009), the latter of which earned her a Young Artist Award.

Thorne has ventured into music. She released her debut single, “Watch Me” in 2011, which charted at 86 on the US Billboard Hot 100. She has since released the EP Made in Japan in 2012 and the EP Jersey in 2014. She made her directorial debut in 2019, directing the adult film Her & Him, which garnered her a mixed reception, although she won a Pornhub Visionary Award.

7. Elisa Marina Alvarado

Elisa Marina Alvarado is an American director, actress, educator, social worker, a practitioner of traditional Mexican medicine, and dancer. Born in San Jose, California, Elisa Alvarado is a director and community organizer of Purépecha and Cuban descent.

She is perhaps best known as the founder and long-time Artistic Director of the San Jose-based Chicano Teatro Visión theatre company. She has currently invested in two theatre programs Codices and the Instituto de Teatro, which produce new works by Latino playwrights and offer comprehensive training in culture-based theatre.

8. Natalia Almada

Natalia Almada Photo by Elia Martínez / Festival Ambulante – Wikimedia commons

Natalia Almada is a Mexican-American photographer and filmmaker. Her work as a filmmaker focuses on Mexican history, politics, and culture in insightful and poetic films that push the boundaries of how the documentary form addresses social issues.

Her films include “Everything Else (Todo lo demás)” (2016), El Velador (2011), El General (2009), All Water Has a Perfect Memory (2001), and Al Otro Lado (2005), and her work has appeared at numerous national and international venues, including the Museum of Modern Art.

9. Eva Aridjis

Eva Aridjis is a Mexican-American filmmaker. She has made many prize-winning short and feature-length films. Eva directed the music video for New York band The Walkmen’s hit The Rat.

Eva Aridjis wrote the introduction to Angus Fraser’s 2015 book of photographs titled “Santa Muerte”. She wrote the essay “Death in Ancient and Present-Day Mexico” for Joanna Ebenstein’s book “Death: A Graveside Companion” published by Thames and Hudson in 2017.

10. Ivonne Belén

Ivonne Belén is a Puerto Rican documentary movie director and producer. Belén’s first experience doing a documentary film was in 1992 when she was the Co-Producer and Art Director of Rafael Hernández, Jibarito del Mundo.

Belén is also a judge in the Syracuse International Film & Video Festival in New York. This international organisation promotes creative and scholarly work in the verbal and visual arts.

11. Elizabeth Avellán

Elizabeth Avellán Veloz is a Venezuelan-born American film producer. She is the current co-owner and vice president of Troublemaker Studios, the production company that she and her former husband, Robert Rodriguez, founded in 2000.

In September 2019, she bought the remake rights of The Whistler to create an English-language franchise of the movie with her production company Eya Productions. In January 2020, along with Rana Joy Glickman, Elizabeth Avellán Veloz launched the production company Tealhouse Entertainment.

12. La Lupe

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Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond better known as La Lupe was a Cuban singer of boleros, guarachas and Latin soul, known for her energetic, sometimes controversial performances.

Following the release of her first album in 1961, La Lupe signed with Tico Records, which marked the beginning of a prolific and successful career in the 1960s and 1970s. She retired in the 1980s due to religious reasons.

13. Demi Lovato

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Demetria Devonne Lovato known as Demi Lovato is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. After appearing on the children’s television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), Lovato rose to prominence for playing Mitchie Torres in the musical television film Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010).

14. Olivia

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Olivia Theresa Longott is an American R&B singer. She is best known for performing with the hip-hop group G-Unit and as a cast member on the VH1 reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York.

15. Linda Chavez-Thompson

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Linda Chavez-Thompson is a second-generation Mexican-American and union leader. She was elected the executive vice president of the AFL-CIO in 1995 and served until September 21, 2007.

She is also a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and served as a member of the board of trustees of United Way of America. She was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Texas in the 2010 election.