Denée Benton: Tony Award Nominee to HBO Star By Yulia Lolo Florida native actress Denée Benton turned 30 on December 31, 2021, and her personal New Year kicked off with a role that will most surely change the entire trajectory of her acting career. Playing Ms. Peggy Scott of The Gilded Age, an ambitious young Black writer who faces off against a…
Latino Legends Helped Pave the Way in Hollywood By Mandalit del Barco Latinos have been a part of Hollywood since the silent movie era. But they continue to be underrepresented in front of and behind the cameras. USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and UCLA’s latest Hollywood Diversity Report show that Latino actors get just 7% of film leads. In the early days of cinema and…
