Ariana DeBose

2022 - 3 - 27

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‘Ahora ven por qué Anita dice ‘quiero estar en América’' (unknown)

Ariana DeBose cumplió las predicciones de los Oscar y siguió el camino de su predecesora en “West Side Story” Rita Moreno.

Cuando eres la primera es solitario, pero ya no está sola”. “¡Cielos, OK!”, dijo DeBose, sosteniendo triunfal su estatuilla. En gran medida desconocida entre los círculos cinematográficos, la actriz de 31 años nacida en Carolina del Norte se convirtió en una favorita para llevarse el Oscar tras toda una serie de victorias en la temporada de premios.

Ariana DeBose becomes the first openly queer woman of color to win an acting Oscar. (unknown)

It is her first Academy Award. The outcome was expected but historic nonetheless as the 31-year-old actress becomes only the second Latina to nab an Oscar. The ...

DeBose is also the first openly queer star to win an acting Oscar. So to anybody who has ever questioned your identity — ever, ever, ever, — or you find yourself living in the gray spaces, I promise you this: There is indeed a place for us. Ariana DeBose becomes the first openly queer woman of color to win an acting Oscar.

Ariana DeBose makes history as first Afro Latina, openly queer actor of color to win Oscar (unknown)

Actor Ariana DeBose has made history as the first Afro Latina and first openly queer woman of color to win an Academy Award for acting.

She means a lot to the Latino community and to the entertainment industry at large.” “She means a lot to me,” DeBose said of Moreno in a previous NBC News joint interview. Their rivalry intensifies when Tony, a Jet, falls in love with Maria, the young sister of Sharks leader Bernardo. And that's what I believe we're here to celebrate," DeBose said in her acceptance speech. It is highly emotional. It is loud.

Ariana DeBose Makes History as First Openly Queer Actor of Color to Win an Oscar (unknown)

During her acceptance speech, the actress thanked the film's director Steven Spielberg and Rita Moreno, who originated the role in the 1961 movies, saying they ...

“After West Side Story “I couldn’t get a job except in gang movies, lesser ones.” Moreno made history 60 years ago when she became the first Latina to win an Oscar, which she won for the same role of Anita. But Moreno told “60 Minutes” last year that it wasn’t the starting off point for her career as she hoped. Actress Ariana DeBose made history Sunday as the first Afro Latina and openly queer actor of color to take home an Oscar with her win for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in “West Side Story.” In her acceptance speech, DeBose said “dreams do come true.”

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Ariana DeBose becomes first openly queer actress to win an Oscar (unknown)

DeBose is also only the second Latina woman to win an acting Oscar... after Rita Moreno, for West Side Story.

Rita Moreno for West Side Story. (She’s also only the second actor born in the 1990s to win, after Jennifer Lawrence, but that’s more just weird, and not “deeply infuriating.”) Tonight’s ceremony is actually only the first time in 20 years that an openly queer performer has even been nominated for an acting award (Kristen Stewart, who’s up for Best Actress for Spencer, is in a similar boat to DeBose). The most “recent” was Ian McKellan’s nomination for his performance in The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. And while we’re cataloguing baffling information, let’s also consider that DeBose is now only the second Latina to have won an acting Oscar, after... DeBose won, of course, for her performance in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, where she took on the role of Anita. (DeBose was quick to namecheck both fellow Anita Rita Moreno in her acceptance speech, as well as Spielberg, who she reminded was now “stuck with her.)

Ariana DeBose hace historia y se convierte en la primera actriz abiertamente 'queer' en ganar un Oscar (unknown)

Es la primera mujer de color abiertamente queer que gana un Oscar como mejor actriz de reparto.

"Soy miembro de casi todas las comunidades marginadas". "Soy América", le dijo a la revista OUT en noviembre. "Imagina a esta niña en el asiento trasero de un Ford Focus blanco.

Ariana DeBose se convierte en la primera mujer de color abiertamente queer en ganar un Oscar a la actuación (unknown)

Al igual que Rita Moreno antes que ella, Ariana DeBose ganó un Oscar a la mejor actriz de reparto por su trabajo en 'West Side Story' y acaba de hacer ...

Soy afrolatina y soy puertorriqueña. ¿No es eso interesante?”. Con un movimiento de la falda de su personaje de “West Side Story”, Ariana DeBose ha pasado a la historia como la primera mujer de color abiertamente queer en ganar un Oscar en una categoría de actuación. Ariana DeBose se convierte en la primera mujer de color abiertamente queer en ganar un Oscar a la actuación

Conoce la casa al norte de Nueva York donde vive Ariana DeBose, ganadora del Premio Oscar (unknown)

La actriz de cine y teatro, Ariana DeBose, ganó este 27 de marzo un Premio Oscar como Mejor Actriz de Reparto por su trabajo en 'West Side Story'

Las alacenas de la isla central son de color marrón. Hace algunos meses DeBose abrió las puertas de su hogar y contó varios detalles del lugar. Justo a un lado de la puerta principal hay una chimenea y la sala de estar con dos muebles de color blanco, mismo color que tienen las paredes y la chimenea.

Ariana DeBose gana el Oscar a la mejor actriz de reparto (unknown)

Ariana DeBose, winner for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for "West Side Story," attends the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, ...

Cuando eres la primera es solitario, pero ya no está sola”. “¡Cielos, OK!”, dijo DeBose, sosteniendo triunfal su estatuilla. En gran medida desconocida entre los círculos cinematográficos, la actriz de 31 años nacida en Carolina del Norte se convirtió en una favorita para llevarse el Oscar tras toda una serie de victorias en la temporada de premios.

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