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Gorgeous.

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I wonder what her ethnicity is. She plays a Mexican-American in F13: Part III but her surname is French;

The surname Labelle was first used as a surname by the people of ancient French region of Gascogne. It was a name for a person distinguished by great physical beauty. Interestingly, the name Labelle was originally derived from the French words, "la belle," which means, " the beautiful."
How appropriate!

I saw a 23&Me article on the surname;
White - 93.14%
Hispanic - 2.02%
American Indian and Alaskan Native - 2.19%
Two or More Races - 1.36%
Asian/Pacific Islander - 0.63%
Black - 0.68%

The most commonly-observed ancestry found in people with the surname Labelle is British & Irish, which comprises 40.8% of all ancestry found in people with the surname. The next two most common ancestries are French & German (29.9%) and Italian (6.5%).

https://discover.23andme.com/last-name/Labelle

I know Florida has a decent Hispanic population so I guess she could be mixed race... or they just cast a White woman as a Mexican, this was the 80s after all, none of your modern race sensitivity;
https://i.postimg.cc/hGGrBQKT/8u-M3d-Duyj-Mi-Jatx2-Dmha-UDJGLCp.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/9X9BChH8/s-l1600.webp

https://i.postimg.cc/7YynLWxx/s-l1600ss.webp

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