Cristela Alonso
Cristela Alonzo has been the talk of Hollywood this season, with a development deal and a ‘secret’ pilot made on the set of Last Man Standing. Now the best possible outcome: Cristela has been announced as a new half-hour sitcom on ABC, only the second new show for Fall ’14 with a Latino in the lead. (the other is the CW’s new show, Jane the Virgin, starring Gina Rodriguez.)
Created by Cristela Alonzo and Kevin Hench, Alonzo stars as a sixth-year law student who gets an unpaid internship at a prestigious law firm only to discover that her working class Mexican-American family isn’t entirely supportive of her upward mobility. Carlos Ponce, Terri Hoyos (Cold Case), Andrew Leeds and Sam McMurray (Scandal, The Fosters, Raising Arizona) co-star.
More details will emerge, but congratulations to Cristela for making it to the big leagues–and so fast!
