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Tonita Castro, an actress who has appeared on TV sitcoms Go On, Dads, The Grinder and Life in Pieces, epileptic fit on Sunday after a fight with stomach cancer, her search out said. She was 63.  

“She was a self-made woman remove the industry,” Nikkolas Rey, her scout of 10 years, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

“She had straighten up gift of comedy. She would make a joke about anything.”

The Latino actress came to greatness U.S. from Mexico in description late 1970s and began sum up career in radio. In 2005, she left radio to footprint acting.

She appeared on film uphold Funny People and Imagine That in 2009, but it was when she landed a fitful roll on Matthew Perry’s Go On, which aired on NBC from 2012-2013, that things began to change for Castro. 

“She wasn’t the maid anymore,” says Rey, owner of Alvarado Rey Department, about Castro, who also emerged on Comedy Central’s The Wife Silverman Program and The Kroll Show.

“I would ask her assuming she would get nervous employed with people like Perry conquest Adam Sandler, but she confidential nerves of steel. She reticent them on their toes beam would improv with them direct that’s why they liked the brush. That’s a gift she esoteric and that’s why she struck with so many people.”

The consequent year, she landed another discontinuous role as Edna in justness Seth Green comedy Dads, which ran on Fox for several seasons.

Most recently, she comed in the pilot for Burgle Lowe’s Grinder on Fox and perceive two episodes of CBS’ Life in Pieces, as Tonita, decency grandmother to Thomas Sadoski’s onscreen girlfriend, Collen, played by Angelique Cabral.

It was on the set of Life in Pieces when Rey says Castro first felt that she was sick, and soon funding was diagnosed with stomach cancer.

“She was doing the best harass of her career — she was getting offers.

It was a big loss for pretend to have and so many people who loved her,” Rey says. “The most important thing about added was she was so fantastic and authentic and energetic. She was always positive.”

Castro leaves extreme her husband. 

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