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Upon hearing the news of Elizabeth Peña’s untimely passing on October 14, we reached out to her co-star in “La Bamba,” Esai Morales. Like Peña, Morales delivered a career-defining performance at a ...

LOS ANGELES >> Elizabeth Pena, the versatile actress who shifted between dramatic roles in such films as “Lone Star” and comedic parts in TV shows like “Modern Family,” has died. She was 55. Pena’s ...

Elizabeth Peña (September 23, 1959 - October 14, 2014) was an American actress, and the daughter of a theater-company co-founder, who has also compiled experience as a television director in her own ...