Nancy Glenn-Nieto

Nancy Glenn Nieto
San Francisco, Calif. c. 1994, Nancy Glenn Nieto's Art Exhibit
Born	Nancy Linda Hoskins (1944-09-20)September 20, 1944 Oklahoma, U.S.
Other names	Nancy Nieto
Occupation	Model (people), actress, fine arts painter
Years active	1960–present
Works	Skull art
Spouse(s)	Rodolfo Nieto September 11, 1971 -his death 1984
Website	NancyNieto.com

Nancy Glenn-Nieto (born September 20, 1944) is an American-Mexican actress, model, and Fine art painter. Perhaps best known as a model and an actress in Mexico City, however, her art work has become highly collectable. She is the widow of the late Mexican Oaxacan painter Rodolfo Nieto.

Born Nancy Hoskins in Oklahoma to Howard Hoskins (March 1, 1911 – 1995), an engineer for Douglas Aircraft Company, and Mary Hoskins, (July 29, 1922 – March 6, 2014) a school teacher; when a child she moved with her family to Southern California. During her girlhood she spent a good deal of time with her maternal grandmother Herminia Matuse Harrel (May 7, 1889 – January 23, 1995) who was born and raised in Cruces, Chihuahua, Mexico. Nancy became enchanted with her grandmother’s stories that created colorful contrasting views of a country full of culture, music, and art, but politically on the brink of upheaval with individuals such as Porfirio Diaz, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata and how her grandmother escaped the Mexican Revolution of 1911 crossing the Rio Grande into the safety of El Paso, Texas. Growing up in a family of two cultures, Nancy integrated both with equal value into her personal perspective.

Her interest in art began when she was a little girl. She liked to draw pictures of the neighborhood dogs and cats, often bringing them into her home. Her mother remembered this time with “Nancy was always bringing a stray cat or dog home. She’d feed them, and soon they became part of our family.” During her High School years, her first job was painting Christmas scenes on the local merchants shop window.

While Nancy liked to paint and draw, she also liked the attention she got when she won the Miss Los Angeles beauty contest. That same year at 23 years old she entered the Queen of the Pacific Beauty Pageant held in Melbourne, Australia as the representative from California.

After graduating University of California, Santa Barbara, with a degree in Fine art, Nancy’s identification with her grandmother motivated her to get to know her grandmother’s Mexican roots. After traveling throughout Mexico, she decided to establish herself in Mexico City. While visiting an art gallery in the bohemian Zona Rosa, Mexico City, she was spotted by Ned Motola the publicity director of the Mexico City office of the international publicity company Doyle Dane and Bernbach. Impressed with her shapely legs, he offered her a contract to model in commercials for his client Christian Dior's leg wear. From that national exposure, her modeling career blossomed. Soon she became one of Mexico’s top models. Large international companies used her image to advertise their product. She appeared on billboards, TV commercials, magazines such as Vanity, in major newspapers, and she modeled in Haute couture fashion shows for Catalina Swimwear, Chanel, Dior, and El Palacio de Hierro. Not unlike the well known model Suzy Parker, modeling became Nancy’s springboard into acting in movies that is until her marriage to Rodolfo Nieto.