Renée Victor, the actress identified for voicing Abuelita in Disney and Pixar‘s Coco and starring as Lupita in Showtime’s Weeds, has died. She was 86.
Victor died at her dwelling in Sherman Oaks on Friday night time surrounded by her household after a battle with lymphoma, her consultant informed The Hollywood Reporter.
After being born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1938, she moved to Los Angeles within the Sixties the place she grew her profession as a musician. Victor labored alongside the likes of Xavier Cugat and Perez Prado, who helped popularize Latin music within the States earlier than she and her husband started performing because the duo named “Ray & Renée” from 1963 to 1973.
She started her pivot into tv within the Nineteen Seventies when she hosted Pacesetters, a KTLA program that spotlighted the Chicano motion. Victor went on to be featured in an episode of Masquerade in 1984, Scarecrow and Mrs. King in 1985 and Matlock in 1987.
She ventured into voice performing in 1992 with the animated The Addams Household collection, together with her extra credit together with The Physician, Confessions of a Shopaholic, A Evening in Outdated Mexico and Paranormal Exercise: The Marked Ones, amongst others.
In 2005, she joined the solid of Weeds, the place she starred as Lupita, the housekeeper to Mary-Louise Parker’s character.
Victor starred in Coco because the protecting Aubelita, and the movie went on to garner two Academy Awards for greatest animated function and greatest authentic tune, “Bear in mind Me,” written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Notably, Coco featured an all-Latin solid.
After Disney introduced Coco 2 was in growth at Disney’s Annual Shareholder Assembly earlier this yr, Victor confirmed her pleasure for the undertaking on Instagram.
“It was my nice pleasure and expertise working with the extremely gifted Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina! We get to do it once more,” she wrote, although the official solid for Coco 2 has not but been verify. “That is what we’ve all been ready for! I’m so excited! Coco shared a Mexican custom that’s now celebrated all over the world in unity. A tremendous quantity of labor and expertise goes into the creation of this distinctive movie.”
Following the information of her loss of life, Pixar shared an announcement in honor of Victor on Instagram. “We’re heartbroken to listen to of the passing of Renée Victor, the voice Abuelita in Coco and an unbelievable a part of the Pixar household. We’ll all the time keep in mind you,” they wrote Saturday.
Gloria Calderón Kellett, whom Victor starred alongside in Prime Video’s With Love, shared a heartfelt Instagram put up Saturday, recalling after they first crossed paths on the set of The Ortegas and “she radiated expertise, humor and charm.”
“It’s exhausting to say goodbye to the incomparable Renee Victor,” she wrote. “Years later, she would grow to be my TV mother, Marta, on With Love — a job named after my paternal grandmother. It felt like future. She introduced that character to life with such heat, sharp wit, and class. And let’s be sincere — she had one of the best legs within the biz!”
“Renee was a real professional. A scene-stealer. A pleasure. A blessing. Her artistry made all the pieces higher, and her presence made each set brighter,” she wrote within the conclusion of the put up.
Survivor embody her two daughters, Raquel and Margo.