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Elizabeth Peña as Died

L-r: Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Esai Morales and Elizabeth Peña at the tenth anniversary of La Bamba. ©1997 Angela María Ortíz S.

L-r: Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Esai Morales and Elizabeth Peña
at the tenth anniversary of La Bamba.
©1997 Angela María Ortíz S.

We won’t see the strong, smart, warm, wry presence of Elizabeth Peña again. From La Bamba to Down and Out in Beverly Hills to more TV than we can remember, in comedy or drama, she was always worth watching. We will miss her deeply.

The news hit all the trades this morning: Elizabeth Peña passed away in Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles at the age of 55. You can read the details and a moving personal tribute to her from Mario-Francisco Robles in Latino Review, right here. No cause of death has been reported quite yet.