Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald
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| Portrayed by | Eva Tamargo | ||||||||||
| Duration | 1999–2008 | ||||||||||
| First appearance | July 6, 1999 | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | August 7, 2008 | ||||||||||
| Created by | James E. Reilly | ||||||||||
| Book appearances | Hidden Passions | ||||||||||
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| Residence | Lopez-Fitzgerald House 462 Railroad Street Harmony, New England |
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| Parents |
Antonio Lopez Maria Lopez |
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| Siblings |
Florencia Lopez Francisco Lopez Maria Lopez |
| Spouse | Martin Fitzgerald |
| Children |
Antonio Lopez-Fitzgerald Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald Paloma Lopez-Fitzgerald |
| Grandchildren | Ethan Winthrop II Maria Lopez-Fitzgerald Marty Lopez-Fitzgerald Jane Winthrop |
Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV soap opera Passions. Pilar was played by Eva Tamargo during the entire run of the show.
Pilar is the matriarch of the Lopez-Fitzgerald family. She had been born in Mexico, but had moved to Harmony in her twenties as the wife of Martin Fitzgerald, whom she had married when she was 18. She had immediately gotten a job working for the wealthy Winthrop family, becoming Ivy Winthrop's personal maid when Ivy was only a small child. When Ivy had married Julian Crane, Pilar had gone with her to the Crane household.
Martin had disappeared shortly after Pilar had given birth to their youngest daughter, Paloma Lopez-Fitzgerald, leaving her with five children under age 10. Pilar had immediately sent Paloma to Mexico to live with and be raised by her sister Maria, leaving grade-school-aged Antonio in charge of toddlers Theresa and Miguel. At the same time, the young family had also been kicked out of their home on the Crane grounds. Pilar had refused to leave Ivy and because the Cranes paid poorly, she had worked two jobs to support her family, leaving young Antonio to care for his younger brothers and sister. This had continued for the next dozen years until Antonio had disappeared shortly after Luis graduated high school, at which point Luis had become a police officer and Pilar had been able to quit her second job.
Although Pilar had always been loyal to Ivy (including keeping the secret of the paternity of her son, Ethan Crane), her first loyalty is to her family. As the series begins in 1999, Pilar discovers that Theresa is obsessively pursuing Ethan, despite the fact he was in a relationship with Gwen Hotchkiss, but Pilar does nothing to stop her daughter. In 2000 Pilar takes preventative methods when she learns that Theresa had accidentally come across the papers that proved that Ethan was Sam Bennett's son and not Julian Crane's. Pilar forces Theresa to lie to Ivy and Ethan. With the secret about Ethan is finally out in the open in 2001 when Gwen and her mother frame Theresa for exposing it, Pilar tries hard to keep Ivy from interfering in Sam and Grace Bennett's marriage. In 2002, as Ethan and Theresa are about to marry, Ivy intends to tell her son that Theresa had accidentally wed Julian and had then believed that she was having his child. To protect the secret, both Pilar and Theresa attack a wheelchair-using Ivy, leaving her locked in her room without any means of escape so that Theresa can marry Ethan without interference. Ivy manages tell Ethan the truth anyway.
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