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Contact: Dick Moore and Associates
Helaine Feldman
212-719-9570
LATIN ACTORS
LAUD ALFRED MOLINA
Theatre and Film
Star to be Honored at The Players on September 20
New York, NY, August
16, 2004—The son of a Spanish father and an Italian mother,
born and educated in London, and Tony-nominated for his role as
a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia in the classic Broadway
musical Fiddler on the Roof, Alfred Molina is
being honored by the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors
(HOLA).
Mr. Molina will receive
the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence at the organization's
5th Annual Awards Presentation and Benefit celebrating Latinos
in entertainment. The event begins at 6:30pm on Monday, September
20, 2004 at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York City.
"Alfred Molina
may be half Italian, but to us he's 100% Latin and we are proud
to claim him and honor him," said Manuel Alfaro, executive
director of HOLA.
Alfred Molina made
his Broadway debut in Art, receiving his first Tony
nomination as Best Actor, as well as a Drama Desk Award. Other
theatre credits include the Royal National Theatre's Night
of the Iguana and Speed-the-Plow, for which he
received an Olivier Award nomination. Mr. Molina is also currently
starring as the evil Dr. Octavius in Spider-Man 2. He made
his film debut in Raiders of the Lost Ark and received
Best Supporting Actor nominations from the British Academy of
Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the Screen Actors Guild, the
Chicago Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Critics Association
for his performance as Diego Rivera in Frida. Other
films include Chocolat, Boogie Nights
and Enchanted April.
The HOLA Ilka Award (named for HOLA founding president
Ilka Tanya Payán) will be presented to Daphne
Rubin-Vega (Broadway: Anna in the Tropics, Rent,
The Rocky Horror Show) for her humanitarian efforts.
Argentine legend Graciela Lecube (veteran of many films
in Argentina and the U.S. and a regular on ABC's One Life
to Live) will receive the HOLA Lifetime Achievement Award.
Actor/playwright Linda Nieves-Powell (Yo Soy Latina,
Tina Does Pérez) will receive the HOLA
Tespis Award; NBC4 news anchor Lynda Baquero receives
a new HOLA Award for Excellence in English Language Media,
and Mauricio Zeilic, co-host of Telemundo's Cotorreando,
will be recognized for Excellence in Spanish Language Media.
In addition, HOLA
Awards honor outstanding achievement in Spanish language theatre
during the 2003-2004 season.
HOLA is a 501(c)(3) arts service and advocacy organization promoting
accurate, educated and non-stereotypical portrayals of Hispanic
culture and its people in the arts and media. It provides a variety
of programs serving Hispanic actors and the entertainment/communications
industries, including talent and casting referrals, professional
workshops, and career counseling.
For further information,
call HOLA at (212) 253-1015 or visit the website: www.hellohola.org.
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Contact: Dick Moore
and Associates
Helaine Feldman
212-719-9570
NBC4 NEWS ANCHOR
LYNDA BAQUERO
CITED BY LATIN ACTORS' GROUP FOR
EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE MEDIA
Mauricio Zeilic, Co-host of Telemundo's Cotorreando
Receives Spanish Language Media Award;
Alfred Molina, star of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof,
and Broadway and film star Daphne Rubin-Vega also honored
New York, NY, August
19, 2004— Lynda
Baquero, co-anchor of NewsChannel4 at 6pm, with Chuck Scarborough
is being honored by the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors
(HOLA) for Excellence in English Language Media. The
award will be presented at the organization's 5th annual Awards
Presentation and Benefit celebrating Latinos in entertainment
at 6:30pm on Monday, September 20, 2004 at The Players, 16 Gramercy
Park South, New York City.
Lynda Baquero joined NBC4 in 1995 as a general assignment reporter
and one year later was named co-anchor of the station's weekend
editions of Today in New York. She held that post
for two years before being becoming co-anchor of the weekend editions
of NewsChannel 4 at 6 and 11pm. Ms. Baquero came
to NewsChannel4 from NY1News, where she was a daily news anchor
and consumer reporter for three years. She also has worked at
WCBS-TV in New York; was associate producer of "NELY!,"
a talk show produced at WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, and wrote and co-produced
various Spanish-language network specials for Telemundo. She is
the recipient of a 1998 local Emmy Award for Religions Programming
for her reports on the Pope's visit to Cuba.
Alfred Molina, currently starring on Broadway in Fiddler
on the Roof, and on movie screens as the evil Dr. Octavius in
Spider-Man 2 will receive the Rita Moreno HOLA Award
for Excellence.
The HOLA Ilka Award (named for HOLA founding president
Ilka Tanya Payán) will be presented to Daphne
Rubin-Vega (Broadway: Anna in the Tropics, Rent,
The Rocky Horror Show) for her humanitarian efforts.
Argentine legend Graciela Lecube (a veteran of many films
in Argentina and the U.S. and a regular on ABC's One Life
to Live) will receive the HOLA Lifetime Achievement
Award, and actor/playwright Linda Nieves-Powell (Yo
Soy Latina, Tina Does Pérez) will receive the
HOLA Tespis Award.
In addition, HOLA Awards honor outstanding achievement in Spanish
language theatre during the 2003-2004 season.
HOLA is a 501(c)(3) arts service and advocacy organization promoting
accurate, educated and non-stereotypical portrayals of Hispanic
culture and its people in the arts and media. It provides a variety
of programs serving Hispanic actors and the entertainment/communications
industries, including talent and casting referrals, professional
workshops, and career counseling. For further information, call
HOLA at (212) 253-1015 or visit the website: www.hellohola.org.
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