Other recipients getting awards are Estrella Media’s show Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento, Pluto TV and Don Francisco.
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Nacho Libre star Ana De La Reguera will receive the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hispanic Television at the Hispanic Television Awards ceremony Nov. 18. The event will cap the 9th annual Hispanic Television Summit, currently taking place online.
“The annual presentation of the prestigious Hispanic Television Awards is a highlight of the Hispanic Television Summit and is just one session within the overall conference,” says Joe Schramm, the event’s programmer. “Awards are presented to individuals, programs or organizations in recognition of their current achievements that have driven the growth and prosperity of the overall Hispanic TV industry.”
De La Reguera’s long career started as a telenovela star in her native Mexico about three decades ago. She successfully crossed over into the American market with several movies and TV and streaming series.
Her telenovelas credits include the 1990s’s Azul, Pueblo chico, infierno grande, Desencuentro and Tentaciones. In the early 2000s she starred in other novelas like Cara o Cruz and Gitanas, both of which aired on the U.S. Spanish-language network Telemundo.
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The Mexican actress’s breakout role in Hollywood was in the 1997 comedy film Nacho Libre, opposite Jack Black, followed by a long string of roles in the television series Royal Pains, Eastbound & Down, Capadocia, Narcos and movies like Di Di Hollywood, Cowboys & Aliens and The Book of Life. She has also appeared in other series like CW’s Jane the Virgin, Starz’s Power, El Rey Network’s From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series and Comedy Central’s Ana.
Her more recent projects in America include the action-thriller flick The Forever Purge, Amazon’s series Goliath and Netflix’s Army of the Dead–she is set to star in the spin-off Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas debuting next year.
Additionally, she stars in the recently released film El Rey de Todo el Mundo by Cannes-winning Spanish director Carlos Saura. De La Reguera is expected to appear in the Netflix series.
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De La Reguera is one of two recipients of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hispanic Television. The other is Estrella Media’s series Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento. Other celebrities who have received the award in the past are actor Diego Luna and journalist Jorge Ramos.
The Hispanic Television Awards will also present other honors. Pluto TV will be recognized with the Award for Corporate Leadership in Hispanic Television. Three Pioneers in Hispanic Television awards will go to Alma, a Miami-based creative agency; Mario Kreutzberger, a.k.a. as the legendary TV host Don Francisco of Univision’s show Sabado Gigante; and the Hispanic Marketing Council, formerly AHAA, a national trade organization of creative, communications and media firms with Hispanic market expertise.
Featured Photo: Ana De La Reguera (Credit: Courtesy, self)
Check out this trailer of the horror series Army of the Dead featuring De La Reguera:
