By Lee Hernandez
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07/19/2011 - 16:45
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Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, and Benicio Del Toro—they're all household names now, but even they had to start somewhere. Here are the breakout roles of 15 famous Latino stars!
In the last seven years, the Spanish actor has played a quadriplegic fighting for the right to end his life (2004's The Sea Inside), a vicious killer with a pageboy haircut (2007's No Country for Old Men), and a single father dealing with terminal cancer (2010's Biutiful). But the role that convinced Hollywood that Javier Bardem had a knack for playing sickly characters was the actor's heartbreaking performance as the AIDS-stricken gay Cuban poet, Reinaldo Arenas in Julian Schnabel's 2000 biopic, Before Night Falls.
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