Elizabeth Pena

She recently stars in Showtime's Resurrection Blvd. as Aunt/Tia Bibi Corrades. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Blvd. She has appeared in movies such as La Bamba, Vibes and Rush Hour. Later in life she took a role in The Gambler (1997). Elizabeth Pena is a Cuban-born actress. She stopped making films altogether after Hostages in 1943, although she did appear in a single episode of the World War II television series Combat, and even took a dual role in an episode of The Love Boat. Refusing to be stereotyped, or to knuckle under to the studio system, she married playwright Clifford Odets in 1937, but divorced him three years later after a stormy relationship.

Two years later, she had won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her portrayal of actress Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld in 1936 and as a Chinese peasant in The Good Earth in 1937. Rainer appeared in several German language films before going to Hollywood in 1935. She became an American citizen in the 1940s, but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years now. Luise Rainer (born January 12, 1910 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a film actress.