Famous People with Name Angelica

Angelica Lee Sin-Jie            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Angelica Lee Sin-Jie: a Malaysian-Taiwanese film actress and pop singer. She started her career in singing and later moved on to acting in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Lee starred in The Eye, the hit Asian horror film by the Pang Brothers, winning her the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Festival and a Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Award.[1] She is among the very few Asian artists to be awarded as Berlin Film Festival Best Newcomer Awards in 2004 for her role in Betelnut Beauty.

Angélica Gavaldón Loaiza            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Angélica Gavaldón Loaiza: is a retired tennis player from Mexico. She was born in the United States but comes from a Mexican family and turned pro in 1990. That same year, she qualified for the quarter-finals in the 1990 Australian Open, from which she was eliminated in a match against Claudia Porwik. Her greatest career achievement is widely considered to be the 1995 Australian Open, when she once again came through the qualifying tournament to reach the quarter-finals; this helped raise her year-end ranking for 1995 to 36th in the world and marked the peak of her Grand Slam (tennis).

Angélica María            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Angélica María: an American-born Mexican actress/singer-songwriter.She is the daughter of the American musician Arnold Federic Hartman and Angélica de Jesús Ortíz Sandoval, a theater producer. When she was 5 years old, Angélica's parents divorced and she moved with her mother to Mexico City. Angelica Maria is fluent in Spanish, English, French, Italian, Greek, German, Otomi, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic.

Angélica Vale            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Angélica Vale: a Mexican actress, singer and comedienne, known also as the daughter of Angélica María "La Novia de Mexico" (Mexico's Sweetheart), and as the daughter of comedian Raul Vale. She has been working as an actress for almost 30 years, but achieved fame in 2006 when she became the protagonist of La Fea Más Bella (The Prettiest Ugly Girl), a Mexican telenovela, with her real life mother.As a child, in the movie El Gran Triunfo in 1981, Vale portrayed the daughter of Mexican superstar, Rigo Tovar. In 1998, she portrayed Julieta in Soñadoras and in 2001, she portrayed the character of Wendy Nayeli Pérez in Amigas y Rivales, both major roles which won acclaim for the actress. However, the soap opera La fea más bella was her first starring role in any Mexican telenovela,

Angélica Gorodischer            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Angélica Gorodischer: is an Argentine writer known for her collection of short stories, which belong to a wide variety of genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, crime and stories with a feminist perspective.In the English-speaking world Gorodischer might be best known for Kalpa Imperial (In Argentina volume 1 appeared in 1983 and both volumes by 1984). Its English translation came in 2003 by United States speculative fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin. A collection of short stories, it details the history of a vast imaginary empire through tales of fantasy, fable, and allegory.

Mother Angelica,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mother Angelica,: is an American Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Eternal Word Television Network.Rita's childhood was marred by poverty and unhappiness as she grew up during the Great Depression. Looking back upon this time in her life, Angelica described herself and her mother as being "like a pair of refugees. We were poor, hungry, and barely surviving on odd jobs before mother learned the dry cleaning business as an apprentice to a Jewish tailor in our area. Even then, we pinched pennies just to keep food on the table."