By Jocelyn Noveck
AP nationwide author
Renée Victor, who expressed meaningless grandmother and throws sandals within the animated success of Disney “Coco” and performed the sensible Lupita in “Weeds” of Showtime, has died. She was 86 years previous.
Victor’s dying was confirmed Monday by a consultant, Julie Smith, who mentioned the actor had lymphoma for a number of years. He died Friday at his dwelling at Sherman Oaks, California, mentioned Smith, along with his household by his aspect.
A publication in Pixar’s Instagram feeding, which produced “Coco”, mentioned: “We’re disconsolate when listening to the dying of Renée Victor, La Voz (de) grandmother in ‘Coco’ and an unimaginable a part of the Pixar household. We are going to at all times bear in mind you.”
Victor appeared in 22 episodes of “Weeds” because the blatant Lupita saved between 2005 and 2012, amongst many different tv loans, together with “ER”, “Matlock” and “The Addams Household”. However maybe he was higher identified for what he known as the grandmother who carries the flip flip in “Coco”, the 2017 household movie that explored dying by the journey of a younger Mexican to the land of the lifeless.
“I play the position of ‘Grandpa’, The Chancla throwing grandmother who doesn’t preach ‘no music!'” He wrote on Instagram, trying again a number of years in the past. “Take pleasure in ‘Coco’ with your loved ones this present day of the lifeless and perpetually extra!”
He additionally checked out “The Apostle”, the 1997 movie that Robert Duvall wrote, directed and starred. “He risked with this film,” Victor wrote on Instagram. “That is the place I acquired my nickname ‘One Take Renée,” he mentioned, and added emojis of laughter. “I had a small position, however how nice! Can anybody give me a Amen?”
Born in San Antonio, Texas, on July 25, 1938, Victor started his profession as a singer and dancer. He moved to Los Angeles within the 1960s, in keeping with the biography materials supplied by his representatives, the place he launched his profession singing with distinguished leaders of Large Band, Xavier Cugat and Pérez Prado. He additionally taught Latin dance, together with salsa and tango.
He met his future husband, Ray, throughout that interval, and from 1963 to 1973, they acted collectively as “Ray & Renée”, a spread program took them to everybody, together with Australia, the place “they loved a selected fame,” mentioned the supplies.
Within the 1970s, Victor was the host of the Public Affairs Program “Pacesetters” in Ktla, their representatives mentioned, and within the 80s that they had moved to tv and cinema.
His cinematographic credit, aside from “The Apostle”, included the 2014 horror film “Paranormal Exercise 5: The Marked One”, “The Physician” with William Damage (1991) and “A Evening in Previous Mexico” (2013), additionally with Duvall. In 2004, he had a recurring position as Florina López in “ER” of tv, and the next 12 months he was chosen in “Weeds”. Different credit of the sequence included “Snowpiercer” (2020-2021), “Mayans Mc” (2022), “Useless To Me” (2020-2022) and “With Love” of Amazon (2021-2023).
Victor is survived by his daughters, Raquel and Margo Victor, mentioned Smith.