Ara Celi (born May 31, 1974) is an American actress active in American film and television. She had a starring role in the minor 1997 dance movie Looking for Lola, but she is probably best known for her guest starring role as Ampata Gutierrez a.k.a. "Inca Mummy Girl" in season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is now most often seen in television advertisements for Universal Toyota car dealership in San Antonio, Texas, Charles Maund Toyota dealership in Austin, Texas, Boggus Ford dealership in McAllen, Texas, and Jim Norton T-Town Chevrolet in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
At age 18, she moved to Mexico, where she had a role on a Spanish language soap opera. After three months she decided to move to Los Angeles, where she landed a guest appearance on Saved by the Bell: The College Years. She made several other guest appearances in television series, including The Brothers García, Nip/Tuck and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In 2000, she married Robert Godines, a financial advisor, and in 2006 they moved to the Texas Hill Country near San Antonio to start a family. They have two children, a boy and a girl. Celi is a spokesperson for a local automotive dealership, and she and her husband own a barbering franchise in San Antonio.[5]
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