project will be an important one. She just announced that she is expecting to have a baby girl in February! In the meantime, Constance always finds ways to keep busy. She recently launched her own clothing line, created her own website and worked on a documentary about young Latinas. In addition, she also works on behalf of several charities close to her heart and she loves to attend events and premieres and walk the red carpet whenever she can. On “The George Lopez Show,” Constance starred as Angie Lopez, George's wife and the hard working mother of his two kids. The series, produced by Sandra Bullock, was basically a vehicle for stand-up comedian George Lopez, but it allowed Constance to hone her skills as a comedienne. She was the perfect foil for George in the family oriented sitcom. The show was unique in that it was first successful long- running series starring Latinos in the lead roles. Co-producer and writer George Lopez made sure that the situ-
ations were universal while still instilling a bit of Latin spice to the show. The formula worked and the show became a long-running success which eventually went into syndication. Ironically, “The George Lopez Show” originally aired on ABC during the last half hour of Constance’s other series, “American Family” on PBS.
On “American Family,” Constance starred alongside an ensemble cast which included Edward James Olmos, Sonia Braga, Esai Morales and Raquel Welch. Constance played Nina, a daugh- ter in the Gonzales family and a sexy legal aid attor- ney, whose liberal and political ideas are constant- ly challenged by her conser- vative father, played by Olmos. The show ran for two years and had the dis- tinction of being the public broadcasting network's first-ever, original television
series, with principle funding provided by PBS, CPB and Fox Television and with international distribution being handled by Twentieth Century Fox. This show also has become a classic and a landmark for Latinos and for American broadcast- ing. No one is more surprised than Constance about her good fortune to be involved in both of
these shows at the same time. Born in East Los Angeles on Sept 9, 1969 to a third-genera-
tion Mexican American family, Constance was raised primarily by her mother and grandmother. Urban life was not always easy and they often had to move from apartment to apartment all over the city.
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