Actress Terri Hoyos was born in Los Angeles, CA on January 18. She is the daughter of Mexican actor Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Charlie’s Angels, Chico and the Man), and granddaughter of actor Rodolfo Hoyos. She began her career in Hollywood as a make-up artist working on several TV shows.  Later she studied acting at Los Angeles City College 

Hoyos made her screen debut in 1984, with a small part in Crimes of Passion.  She went on to do guest-starring roles on television shows that included: Hill Street Blues, Gimme a Break!, Cheers, ER, Dharma & Greg, Frasier, NYPD Blue, Parks and Recreation, and Modern Family. From 2009-2010 she was a recurring character in the CBS police procedural Cold Case. 

In 2003 she landed her first series regular role in the Fox sitcom The Ortegas. A family sitcom that in addition to Hoyos starred, in addition to Hoyos, Al Madrigal, Cheek Marin, and Renee Victor. Unfortunately, the series was canceled before its debut. 

In 2014, she was cast as the mother in the ABC comedy series Cristela starting stand-up comedienne Cristela Alonzo.   
Most recently, in 2020, Hoyos appeared as Victor’s grandma in Hulu series Love, Victor in which Michael Cimino plays the title role of half-Puerto Rican, half-Colombian-American teenager. Season two of the series is expected to begin airing Summer of 2021.

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January 6

Cristela Alonzo was born on January 6, 1979, in San Juan, Texas. As an 8-year-old girl, Alonzo was captivated by the TV classic sitcom, The Golden Girls (1985).  So it was a dream come true when in 2014 her own comedy sitcom Cristela aired on ABC, and at least for one season, she became “golden”, and the first Latina to star, write, and produce her own TV comedy series on a major TV network. 

She started doing stand-up while working as an office manager at the Addison Improv, and finally in 2006 Alonzo got her first break in Los Angeles when she was hired to write on a Comedy Central show. That led her to be a semi-finalist on the TV show, Last Comic Standing.  In 2013, she did a 30-minute segment of Comedy Central’s The Half Hour and this pretty much sealed her staying power as a television comedienne. 

A sought after voice-over performer, Alonzo voiced the character of Cruz Ramirez in the Disney-Pixar film Cars 3. In 2017, she released a Netflix stand-up special titled, Cristela Alonzo: Lower Classy. Most recently, she did a voiceover in the season finale of Lin-Manuel Miranda  #HisDarkMaterials and continues her VO character in and The Casagrandes on Nickelodeon.

In 2019 Alsonzo added author to her list of credits when her book Alonzo’s book Music to My Years: A Mixtape-Memoir of Growing Up and Standing Up was published The memoir release is accompanied by a stand-up tour called My Affordable Care Act.

Recently, she worked on the comedy The Upshaws for Netflix, and on the film Coast, which is in post-production.

Featured Photo: Koury Angelo

A clip of Alonzo in her sitcom Cristela on ABC.

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