Sister Act: actors today and cast, movies, sequels

The main actors and curiosities

Sister Act it represented a revolution, raising the curtain on a world hidden from the eyes of those who have never frequented the walls of a convent. Whoopy Goldbergbut also other main interpreters such as Maggie Smith and Wendy Makenahave contributed to making a successful formula successful, enriched by a impactful musical film, cheerfulness, lightness and a story that is never banal. In Adventures of Sister Maria Claretta (played by Whoopy herself), monastic life appears beautiful and full of great desire to do. At the vicissitudes of a difficult life full of chiaroscuro, new light peeps out with the birth of true friendships like those with Mary Patrick (Kathy Najimy), Sister Mary Lazarus (Mary Wickes) and Sister Mary Robert (Wendy Makkena). After a difficult start with the Mother Superior (Maggie Smith), the climate will become decidedly more relaxed when the former showgirl gives life to a church choir that will arouse the joy of the entire community.

Sister Act 2: the return and the new entries

After Sister Act – a nut in a nun’s habit came the sequel in 1993 entitled Sister Act2: Back in the Habit. The four lead nuns are back, including Sister Maria Claretta. This time Deloris takes a break from her Las Vegas show to go undercover as a nun and try to prevent the closure of St. Francis High School. In this new chapter they have made their entry high school students Rita (Laurin Hill), Maria (Alanna Ubach) and Margareth (Jennifer Love Hewitt). After the two box office successes, the Broadway musicals achieving considerable public success.

Sister Act: the cast yesterday and today

Whoopy Goldberg

Caryn Elaine Johnsonthis is the real name of Whoopy Goldberg, achieved a faa like few actors achieving an EGOT, i.e. winning the four main awards in the US entertainment industry: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (in addition to having obtained a very long number of important awards and the star on the Walk Of Fame).

After Sister Act starred in hit movies and series such as The Lion King, Toy Story 3, Rat Race, Whoopi, Glee, The Stinky & Dirty Show, Summer Camp Island and The Stand. She has worked behind the camera as a producer, screenwriter and director, but also as a presenter and actress of musicals. Projected into the Olympus of cinema 30 years ago, she has never lost her edge, not even after the recent gaffes about the Holocaust. At the end of January she had leapt to the headlines, for having said what had happened “was not a racial problem”, but a “clash between whites”. You have now apologized again for your offensive statements about Jews, after you reiterated in an interview with the Sunday Times: “Let’s remember who was killed in the first place. They weren’t racial murders, but for physical reasons. They killed people considered to be mentally challenged.”

Maggie Smith

The British actress played the Mother Superior in both films, but he never stopped acting. After that experience you worked in theater and in The First Wives Club, Divine Secret of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Nanny McPhee Returns, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Sherlock Holmes. How can we forget her role in Harry Potter, where she played the role of Professor McGonagall?

Kathy Najimi

Albanian-born American actress best known for being Sister Maria Patrizia in Sister Actstarred in Hocus Pocus and in The Wedding Planner, WALL-E and All You Can Eat, but also took part in tv series like Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty. She then worked as a voice actress and in the theater she is known for acting in Broadway’s Dirty Blonde.

Wendy Makena

We remember it as Sister Maria Robertabut also worked in A League of Their Own, Judging Amy, Oliver Beene, Listen Up, The Mob Doctor and his appearances in are known NCIS, Numb3rs and Rizzoli & Isles.

Mary Wickes

Sister Maria Lazzara in Sister Act she thinks she is a real driver, but in reality she is a danger on the road. She has subsequently worked as voice actress in works such as The hunchback of Notre Dame and starred in Little Women as Aunt March. In 1995, at the age of 85, she died after a long series of illnesses and hospitalizations.

Hervey Keitel

He played the mob boss Vince la Rocca, former lover of Deloris (Whoopy Goldberg). Later we also saw it in Pulp Fiction, Smoke, From Dusk Till Dawn, One Last Dance, Little Fockers, The Last Godfather and The Irishman.

Bill Nunn

He played the policeman Eddie Souther that he was supposed to protect Deloris’ life. We have also seen it in Me, Bulletproof, Ambushed, Lockdown, Firehouse Dog and Won’t Back Down and interpreted interpret Joseph “Robbie” Robertson in Spider-Man. The actor passed away on September 24, 2016, at the age of 62.

Richard Portnow

His was in Sister Act the role of one of Vince’s thugs, Willy, who was tasked with finding and killing Deloris. She has also worked in Night Eyes Three, Man of the House, Mad City, Desert Thunder, The Mystery of Spoon River and also on Home Free, EZ Streets and The Sopranos.

Will Sister Act 3 happen?

It has been talked about since 2018, but Goldberg recently revealed that she had received it sequel script. At the moment no other details, while the fans are eagerly awaiting, certain that it is now only a matter of time.

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