Her career in theater helped Cardona with public speaking and was especially helpful in teaching students, she told the Sundial in 2010.īorn and raised in Los Angeles, Cardona began her long history as a dancer. “But everything came from her desire to make them better, and they responded.” “She drilled them and drilled them, critiqued them and gave them harsh words of advice,” Moreno said. Recently, Cardona was involved with the McNair Scholars Program, designed to prepare undergraduate students for doctoral studies.
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That drive, they said, compelled her to push students to reach their full potential. She had a fascinating background, yet she was very devoted to our students.”Ĭardona’s friends and colleagues describe her as extremely driven. “She was so talented and so passionate about everything she did. Ana Sánchez-Muñoz, assistant professor of linguistics in the chicano/a studies department. “Annette was an amazing person,” said Dr.
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“(Cardona) is part of that legacy.”Ĭardona also made occasional guest role appearances in episodic TV shows and performed at the White House for former President Ronald Reagan. “Imagine 18,000 die-hard Grease fans in poodle skirts and leather jackets singing their hearts out in front of a screen the size of Texas,” said Brittany Maiman, CSUN almuna and usher at the Hollywood Bowl.
The film’s cult following spawned a Barbie doll collection, including one for Cardona’s character, and a popular sing-along show at the Hollywood Bowl. The actress-turned-professor was perhaps best know for her electric performance in Grease, where she played “the best dancer at St. She was my big sister, my friend and my colleague-all rolled into one.”Ĭardona joined CSUN as a lecturer in the chicano/a studies department in 2002 after a long career on stage. “There are no easy words to describe Annette or who she was.
“Her illness was very fast and did not give any of her closest friends time to have closure,” said friend and chicano/a studies professor Renee Morena. She was 63.Ĭardona, a seasoned dancer, singer and actress, died of lung cancer although she was not a smoker.
CSUN communication professor Annette Cardona, known for her iconic role in “Grease” as Cha Cha DiGregorio, died Aug.
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