Operation Repo star Sonia Pizarro dies in her sleep at 60
Operation Repo actress Sonia Pizarro dies in her sleep at age 60: ex-husband Froylan Tercero leads tributes and calls her ‘a bad girl’
Operation Repo’s Sonia Pizarro passed away in her sleep Wednesday at just age 60, her niece and co-star Lyndah Pizarro revealed.
Though Sonia suffered a stroke that landed her in the hospital in 2018, Lyndah shared TMZ that her death was not caused by its complications.
Meanwhile, Sonia’s ex-husband Froylan Tercero, another Operation Repo actor, paid an overwhelming tribute to her following her passing.
“She will always have a place in my heart and on my body as I still have her name tattooed on my stomach,” he said, “Sonia we love you and I will honor you with all the good memories you have left me given, thank you and I love you.’
Froylan, who also starred alongside Sonia in the 2009 comedy Repo Chick, praised her as “a bad girl who kicked some serious a**.”
Dear departed: Operation Repo’s Sonia Pizarro passed away in her sleep on Wednesday at just the age of 60, her niece and co-star Lyndah Pizarro revealed; photo 2012
Operation Repo was a family business for Sonia – not only did some of her relationships starring in the program, but her brother Lou Pizarro was also the creator.
The series, which began as a Spanish show on Telemundo before landing in English on truTV, followed car seizures in the San Fernando Valley.
A group of actors was gathered to play fictionalized versions of alleged true stories set in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
After Sonia started her run on the show in 2012, she also starred in a spin-off TV movie called Operation Sonia: Love Thy Sleeping Neighbor in 2016.
She starred in Operation Repo: Lou’s Revenge later that same year and in 2018 played a homeless woman in a movie called Followed.
Sonia is survived by her children Ruby, Robert and Froylan Jr. and her three grandchildren Bryant, Brie and Danica.
Her death comes nearly five years after another Operation Repo star, Carlos Lopez Jr., apparently committed suicide by gunshot at the age of 35.
His roommate discovered him on the balcony of their apartment and when emergency services arrived, they pronounced Carlos dead at the scene.
Carlos, who starred in the Tom Cruise movie American Made, was also a veteran who, according to TMZ served 37 months in combat with 82nd Airborne.
His grief-stricken family posted a tribute on Facebook that began, “Our hearts are heavy. Our handsome adventurous and loving son Carlos Jr. left us to heaven yesterday and our hearts are so heavy.’
They added: ‘Please keep our family and Carlos’ friend Ronnie Lee in your prayers. We have lost our eldest son and military warrior.”