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.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. Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald Top Movies & Young Movies