Several cast members from the 1988 film Stand and Deliver have written the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to request that late actress Vanessa Marquez be included in the In Memoriam segment during Sunday’s Oscars. Marquez, who played Ana in the Oscar-nominated film and had a role on early seasons of the…

Attorneys representing the mother of former ER Actress Vanessa Marquez have filed a wrongful death claim against the City of South Pasadena. Marquez, who recurred as nurse Wendy Goldman on early seasons of the 1990s hit medical drama, was fatally shot by police in South Pasadena on Aug. 30, 2018. She was 49. Police…

Vanessa Marquez, who recurred as nurse Wendy Goldman on early seasons of the 1990s hit medical drama ER and later accused co-star George Clooney of blacklisting her when she spoke out about alleged harassment on the show, died Thursday in an officer-involved shooting at her South Pasadena home. She was 49. The Los…

George Clooney says he had no part in blacklisting ER actress Vanessa Marquez for speaking out about harassment, nor even knew she’d been blacklisted. "I had no idea Vanessa was blacklisted,” Clooney said in a statement. “I take her at her word. I was not a writer or a producer or a director on that show. I had…