--- title: Latina Actress description: Hispanic characters are underrepresented and hypersexualized canonical: https://time.com/3101049/latina-women-naked-onscreen-study/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-11T17:25:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:48.953Z og:title: Latina Actresses Have It the Worst in Movies, Study Says og:description: Hispanic characters are underrepresented and hypersexualized og:url: https://time.com/3101049/latina-women-naked-onscreen-study/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Latina Actresses Have It the Worst in Movies, Study Says twitter:description: Hispanic characters are underrepresented and hypersexualized twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Latina Actresses Have It the Worst in Movies, Study Says  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Aug 11, 2014 5:25 PM UTC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Aug 11, 2014 5:25 PM UTC Latina women are not getting a lot of screen time, but when they are it’s usually as sex objects, according to a [new study](http://time.com/3082563/6-depressing-facts-about-diversity-in-film/) from the Media, Diversity & Social Change Initiative at the University of California’s Annenberg School. The group has long documented Hollywood’s [lack of racial diversity](http://time.com/3082563/6-depressing-facts-about-diversity-in-film/), but their newest research finds that Hispanic actors and actresses may have it the worst. Of the 600 top-grossing films from the past six years, only 4.9% of speaking characters in the years surveyed were Hispanic even though 16.3% of the entire U.S. population is Hispanic and 25% of moviegoers are Latino. And the few roles that Hispanic actors do get often require them to strip down: In 2013, Hispanic women were the most likely of all women to be partially or fully naked onscreen (37.5%). White women were next at 31.9%, followed by Asian (23.5%) and black (18.2%) women. Hispanic men, meanwhile, were also the most likely to be sexualized among actors (16.5%), and white men were the least likely to have exposed skin (9.9%, compared to black actors’ 12.1% and Asian actors’ 15.4%). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3101049/latina-women-naked-onscreen-study/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3101049/latina-women-naked-onscreen-study/"},"headline":"Latina Actresses Have It the Worst in Movies, Study Says","datePublished":"2014-08-11T17:25:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:48.953Z","description":"Hispanic characters are underrepresented and hypersexualized","url":"https://time.com/3101049/latina-women-naked-onscreen-study/","keywords":["Living","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3101049/latina-women-naked-onscreen-study/","name":"Latina Actresses Have It the Worst in Movies, Study Says"}}]}] ```