Annette Cardona, 63, a versatile actress, dancer and singer best known for her role as Cha Cha in the 1978 movie musical "Grease" about romance at a 1950s high school, died Wednesday at USC University Hospital, her family announced. She had lung cancer even though she was not a smoker.As Annette Cardona, she starred inHaskell Wexler's "Latino," a 1985 drama about U.S. involvement in Nicaragua. Her stage roles included the Acid Queen in a 1972 production of the Who's rock opera "Tommy" at the Aquarius Theater, and the lead in Jorge Diaz's
Date: Aug 06, 2011
Category: Entertainment
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Born in 1948 as Annette Cardona, she received a masters degree from NYU School of Social Work in 2001.She also served as a part-time professor of speech and communication in the Chicano and Chicana Studies Department at California State University, Northridge since 2000.