45 Facts About Santana Lopez

Santana Lopez is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee.

Santana Lopez is introduced alongside Quinn and Brittany as one of the three most popular cheerleaders at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio, where the show is set.

Santana Lopez joins the school's glee club, and soon is spying on it for Sue Sylvester, coach of the cheerleading team the Cheerios.

Santana Lopez has several romantic relationships, briefly dating Noah "Puck" Puckerman, taking Finn Hudson's virginity, and carrying on a friends with benefits relationship with Brittany.

Santana Lopez is introduced as a popular cheerleader at William McKinley High School.

Brittany reveals in an offhand comment that she and Santana Lopez have slept together.

Santana Lopez takes his virginity, though Finn immediately regrets sleeping with her.

When Puck briefly dates Mercedes Jones, Santana Lopez is jealous and confronts her with an aggressive duet of "The Boy Is Mine".

Santana Lopez is demoted from her position as head cheerleader when Quinn reveals that she had breast implants over the summer, leading to a physical fight between the two.

Santana Lopez blackmails closeted jock and Kurt's bully Dave Karofsky into becoming her beard and running mate, and to start an anti-bullying campaign with her to get Kurt to transfer back, as he only left McKinley to go to Dalton Academy for a safe school environment because Karofsky had threatened to kill him.

Santana Lopez is briefly banished from New Directions for disloyalty, and though she is soon allowed to return, she leaves again to join Mercedes in a newly formed all-girl glee club, the Troubletones, and convinces Brittany, who is her girlfriend, to come with her.

In "Mash Off", Santana Lopez pushes the growing rivalry between the clubs to a new level by bullying Finn and Rory.

In season four, Santana Lopez is attending the University of Louisville in Kentucky on a cheerleading scholarship.

Santana Lopez comes by McKinley to help out with the school musical in "Glease" and again for Thanksgiving and to help New Directions prepare for the upcoming Sectionals competition in "Thanksgiving".

Santana Lopez confronts Quinn that she suspects cheerleader, glee clubber, and Quinn's apprentice, Kitty Wilde, is trying to deliberately hurt Marley.

Santana Lopez is present for the Sectionals performance, and her suspicions appear to be confirmed when Marley collapses on stage due to starvation and anxiety.

Later, Kurt and Rachel are shown attempting to adjust to Santana Lopez, who is making herself at home in the loft a little too quickly for their comfort.

In "Girls On Film", Santana Lopez later confronts Rachel about a used pregnancy test she found in the garbage, causing Rachel to break down in Santana Lopez's arms.

In "Feud", Santana Lopez takes Rachel to the doctor, where they discover her pregnancy was a false alarm.

However, Santana Lopez learns that Rachel's boyfriend, Brody Weston, is a gigolo.

Santana Lopez confronts Brody over this and eventually informs Finn, who tries to scare Brody into leaving town.

In season five, Santana Lopez is employed at a diner in New York.

Santana Lopez meets Dani, a fellow waitress at the diner who is a lesbian.

Santana Lopez later confesses to Kurt that she had planned on being nice and telling everyone about the nice things Finn had done for her.

Santana Lopez joins Kurt's new band in the episode "A Katy or a Gaga" and suggests that they name the band the Apocalypsticks, which is shot down by Kurt.

Santana Lopez asks Brittany to go with her to New York after their trip, Brittany accepts.

Santana Lopez returned to New York in "Opening Night" to watch her friend, Rachel's Broadway debut in the revival of Funny Girl.

In "The Back-Up Plan", Santana Lopez helps Mercedes to finish her album.

However, Mercedes' producer rejected their duet because Santana Lopez isn't famous enough.

When Santana Lopez found out that Rachel is stuck in Los Angeles because of her audition for a television show, she suggests that she would play Fanny Brice for the night.

The next day, Santana Lopez said that she would be a better friend.

Santana Lopez sang Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight" with Artie, Blaine, Kurt, Maggie, Mercedes, Rachel, and Sam.

In "The Untitled Rachel Berry Project", Santana Lopez was not in New York because she was shooting a Yeast-I-Stat commercial.

Santana Lopez performs "Take On Me" and "Home" with the alumni around the school.

Santana Lopez auditioned for the role as she loves singing, dancing and acting, and had never before had the opportunity to combine all three skills in one project.

Santana Lopez found the show's pacing challenging, especially the dancing, and commented in June 2009 that her most memorable moment on Glee was performing the Cheerios' glee club audition piece, "I Say a Little Prayer".

Santana Lopez played a more prominent part in the last nine episodes of Glee first season.

Santana Lopez was included in TV Guide list of the best TV bitches.

Santana Lopez was listed in MTV's Best TV Characters of 2011.

Sandra Gonzalez of Entertainment Weekly was somewhat surprised by the storyline, observing that Santana Lopez had not previously been portrayed as "so serious and vulnerable", but enjoyed the depth it brought to her character.

Santana Lopez called the scene where Santana confessed her feelings for Brittany one of the best moments of the season.

VanDerWerff praised the character development of Santana Lopez, calling it the highlight of the episode "Born This Way".

The reveal about Santana Lopez hasn't washed away her less savory qualities; indeed, it's heightened them, to a degree, as she struggles to be true to herself and still maintain her status as the hottest girl in school.

The character of Santana Lopez had a positive impact on US television, providing rare queer Latina and Afro-Latinx representation on prime time television and laying the foundation for similar characters and stories to follow.

Alicia Ramirez for O, The Oprah Magazine wrote that Santana Lopez was "one of the most visible Latinx lesbians on primetime TV".