Carmen Lopez (character)

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Carmen Consuelo Lopez (played by Masiela Lusha) is a main character in the television series, George Lopez.

[edit] Background

The sitcom character, Carmen Consuelo Lopez^[1]^[2] is George and Angie's daughter and first-born child, Max's older sister, Benny and Vic's granddaughter and Veronica's cousin.

Carmen is a passionate and rebellions force, a student who has been to three schools throughout her time on the show, and a poet. In an early episode, She attended a public school, where she was sexually harassed and labeled as a whore by an ex-boyfriend whom she wouldn't sleep with. The rumor then spread throughout the school, causing her to transfer to Allendale Prep., a private prep school^[3]^[4] After a year there, Carmen was expelled for running away and partying with rapper Chingy in San Francisco. After Allendale Prep., she was briefly home-schooled by Angie before attending St. Teresa's Catholic School.^[5] She graduates there and goes off to college.^[6]

Carmen had an on-again, off-again boyfriend, Jason MacNamara, for much of Seasons 3 and 4. In early Season 5, he ran away from her after she pressured him into having a baby. Her middle name comes from Angie's grandmother, Consuelo.^[7] She is last seen in flashbacks near the end of George's Mom Faces Hard Tambien.

On her role, actress Masiela Lusha, described Carmen as "possessing a wisdom, a naivety, and an idealism that is all glued together by passion of the rawest form. Carmen taught me more about boys and rebellion than most of my friends. I often envied her brash, passionate ways. As Masiela, I enjoyed feeling sheltered, compared to Carmen who yearned to escape the confines of a family who couldn’t understand her." ^[8]