Hottest Hollywood Latinas

 

 Selena Gomez
Justin Bieber's gal pal Selena Gomez is half Mexican-American, with family roots in North Texas.

 Penelope Cruz is Spain's most famous and celebrated actress, with BAFTA, ALMA and Academy Awards under her belt

Salma Hayek
The sizzling Salma Hayek has made it a personal mission to create more roles for Hispanic actors in the entertainment industry. In 2006, she co-adapted the Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea for U.S. television, becoming executive producer of the beloved television series Ugly Betty.

Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez is perhaps the world's most recognizable Latina superstar, as she helped to usher in the so-called "Latin explosion" in the late '90s music industry and hasn't rested since.

Demi Lovato

Disney starlet Demi Lovato is of Mexican, Irish and Italian descent. The dark-eyed beauty recorded one of her Camp Rock hits in Spanish—perhaps a full-length album is in the mix someday.

Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera is long estranged from her Ecuadorian father, but she remains proud of her Latina roots. In 2000, she released Mi Reflejo, a Spanish-language studio album that went on to sell 3 million copies worldwide.

Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes landed one of her first roles in Will Smith's music video for "Miami," in which she sassily called out, "¡Ay Papi!" The Cuban-American actress told Interview in 2008, "We are the future ... I don't mean Latinos, I just mean ethnic diversity. I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent.

Eva Longoria

Texas native Eva Longoria is active in the Hispanic American community; She even enrolled in a Master's program in Chicano Studies at CSU Northridge in 2009.

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz's late father Emilio was a Cuban-American who traced his roots back to Spain. The beachy blond identifies as a Latina, once telling an interviewer, "My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am...Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role."

 Daisy Fuentes Born in Havana, Cuba, model and television personality Daisy Fuentes shot to fame as MTV's first Latina VJ. She explained to Latina magazine, “I always thought of it as, I have a whole other language I can do this in, a whole other culture I can bring to the table.