Actrices Mexicanas
by jmbarron-69099 | created - 13 May 2020 | updated - 18 May 2020 | Public1. María Félix
Actress | Enamorada
Doubtlessly the most famous Mexican movie star, María Félix created a larger-than-life character: herself. La Doña, as the star was known after the character of her 1943 movie Doña Bárbara, starred in 47 movies, most of them forgettable except for her presence in them. More a star than an actress, ...
2. Dolores Del Río
Actress | Las abandonadas
Dolores del Rio was the one of the first Mexican movie stars with international appeal and who had meteoric career in the 1920s/1930s Hollywood. Del Rio came from an aristocratic family in Durango. In the Mexican revolution of 1916, however, the family lost everything and emigrated to Mexico City, ...
3. Blanca Estela Pavón
Actress | Cuando lloran los valientes
Blanca Estela Pavón was born on February 21, 1926 in Minatitlan, Veracruz, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Cuando lloran los valientes (1947), Ustedes, los ricos (1948) and ¡Vuelven los García! (1947). She died on September 26, 1949 in near Popocatépetl, Puebla, Mexico.
4. Sara García
Actress | La tercera palabra
The legendary "granny of Mexican cinema" began her movie career when she was a 22-year-old teacher in a nun's school for girls. One day, young Sara's attention was attracted to a small building in downtown Mexico City. Inside it was Azteca Films, one of the very first Mexican film production ...
5. Katy Jurado
Actress | High Noon
Katy Jurado was born María Cristina Estela Jurado García into a wealthy family on January 16, 1924. Her early years were spent amid luxury until her family's lands were confiscated by the federal government for redistribution to the landless peasantry. Despite the loss of property, the matriarch of...
6. Carmen Montejo
Actress | Mujeres sin mañana
Carmen Montejo was born on May 26, 1925 in Pinar del Río, Cuba. She was an actress and writer, known for Mujeres sin mañana (1951), Los cachorros (1973) and La infame (1954). She was married to Manuel González Ortega. She died on February 25, 2013 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
7. Marga López
Actress | Salón México
Marga López was born on June 21, 1924 in San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Salón México (1949), Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) and La entrega (1954). She was married to Carlos Amador. She died on July 4, 2005 in Mexico City, Mexico.
8. Libertad Lamarque
Actress | Gran Casino
Libertad Lamarque was born November 24, 1908 in Rosario, Argentina, the youngest of ten children of Gaudencio Lamarque, an Uruguayan tinsmith who was worked as a contortionist in her youth, and Josefa Bouza, a Spanish immigrant. Since her childhood, Libertad Lamarque demonstrated a great talent for...
9. Elsa Aguirre
Actress | Cantando nace el amor
Elsa Aguirre was born on September 25, 1930 in Chihuahua, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Cantando nace el amor (1954), La mujer de dos caras (1957) and Cuatro noches contigo (1952).
10. Sara Montiel
Actress | La violetera
Sara Montiel was born in the village of Campo de Criptana, province of Ciudad Real, in the region of Castille-La Mancha, Spain. Her parents were Isidoro Abad, a peasant, and Maria Vicenta Fernández, a door-to-door beautician. The future star was christened Maria Antonia Alejandra Abad Fernández. ...
11. Lilia Prado
Actress | El rincón de las vírgenes
Lilia Prado was born on March 30, 1928 in Sahuayo, Michoacan, Mexico. She was an actress, known for El rincón de las vírgenes (1972), Talpa (1956) and El analfabeto (1961). She was married to Gabriel España. She died on May 22, 2006 in Mexico City, Mexico.
12. Magda Guzmán
Actress | En nombre del amor
Magda Guzmán was born on May 16, 1928 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. She was an actress, known for In the Name of Love (2008), La duda (1954) and La vida no vale nada (1955). She was married to Federico Falcón and Julian Dupre. She died on March 12, 2015 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
13. Silvia Derbez
Actress | Lazos de amor
Silvia Derbez was born on March 8, 1932 in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Lazos de amor (1995), El rey de México (1956) and Cruz de amor (1970). She died on April 6, 2002 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
14. Gloria Marín
Actress | Si Adelita se fuera con otro
She was born Gloria Pina Ramos Luna in Mexico City the 19th of April 1919. Her father was Pedro Méndez Armendáriz (1884-1954), and her mother, María Ramos Luna (1887-1960). Gloria took her stage name from her mother, who was known as Laura Marín; this was the surname she used for her acting career. ...
15. Ninón Sevilla
Actress | Noche de carnaval
Ninon Sevilla was a Mexican showgirl born in Cuba and raised by an aunt in the populous Centro Habana sector, Ninón Sevilla was graced with feline features, wonderful legs and exceptional vitality. She successfully danced her way through Havana night clubs and cabarets, and arrived in Mexico in ...
16. Ana Bertha Lepe
Actress | Lo que le pasó a Sansón
Ana Bertha Lepe was born on September 12, 1934 in Tecolotlan, Jalisco, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Lo que le pasó a Sansón (1955), Neutron Traps the Invisible Killers (1965) and Barú, el hombre de la selva (1962). She died on October 24, 2013 in Mexico, Distrito ...
17. Mimí Derba
Actress | En defensa propia
Althought most of her career was before the cameras, Mimí Derba is better remembered as the first woman director in Mexico (and perhaps in Latin America). On 1917, when Mexican screens were filled by italian melodramas of "divas", Derba organized one of the very first Mexican production companies: ...
18. Miroslava
Actress | La muerte enamorada
Born in interwar Prague as Miroslava Stanclová, her father died and she was adopted by a Jewish doctor, the psychoanalyst Dr. Oskar Leo Stern (1900-1972) who married her mother, Miroslava (née Becka; 1898-1945). Dr. and Mrs. Stern had a son, Ivo (1931-2011), the actress's half-brother. The family ...
19. Famie Kaufman
Actress | La vida en broma
Tall, thin comic actress born in Toronto, Canada, but raised in Cuba. She made her debut as a performer in Havana in 1937. In the 1940s, she relocated in Mexico where she worked thereafter.
Vitola frequently appeared with Tin Tan, in roles of varying importance, but was always a welcome, eccentric ...
20. Andrea Palma
Actress | La mujer del puerto
Andrea Palma became the first diva of Mexican cinema, when she appeared in the tragic leading role of Rosario, the prostitute of The Woman of the Port (1934), one of the iconic films of the "cine de pecadoras" genre that became a staple in the Mexican film industry. Andrea was the daughter of Julio ...
21. Silvia Pinal
Actress | Viridiana
Now a living legend and still very active, Silvia Pinal began her career in theater and became a leading lady in her first movie roles, in the late 1940s. Always a smart urban girl, she belongs to the second and most versatile generation of Mexican movie stars of the Golden Era, together with Pedro...
22. Ana Luisa Peluffo
Actress | Lazos de amor
Ana Luisa Peluffo made her screen debut in 1953. She was a pioneer to appear in nude scenes in Mexican cinema in mid-decade. This helped her to establish her name and allowed her to turn to dramas and comedies, though she returned to her roots in the 1970s. Peluffo has one of the longest ...
23. María Antonieta Pons
Actress | Teatro del crimen
María Antonieta Pons was born on June 11, 1922 in Havana, Cuba. She was an actress, known for Teatro del crimen (1957), La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra (1947) and Embrujo antillano (1946). She was married to Ramón Pereda and Juan Orol. She died on August 20, 2004 in Mexico City, ...
24. Martha Roth
Actress | Una familia de tantas
Martha Roth was born on May 29, 1932 in Padua, Veneto, Italy. She was an actress, known for Una familia de tantas (1949), Corazón salvaje (1956) and Massacre (1956). She was married to Juan Fernando Pérez Gavilán and Rubén Fuentes. She died on October 7, 2016 in Mexico City, Mexico.
25. Rosita Quintana
Actress | A los cuatro vientos
Rosita Quintana was born on July 19, 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress and writer, known for A los cuatro vientos (1955), ¿Dónde estás, corazón? (1961) and Carabina 30-30 (1958). She was married to Sergio Kogan, Jorge D'Arnell and Julio Chapira. She ...
26. Emilia Guiú
Actress | Bel Ami
Emilia Guiú was born on March 31, 1922 in Manresa, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress, known for Bel Ami (1947), El último Round (1953) and Carta Brava (1949). She was married to Abraham Piceno, Manuel Suárez, Enrique de la Concha, Guillermo Méndez and Bill Hieb. She died on ...
27. Columba Domínguez
Actress | Maclovia
Columba Domínguez was born on March 4, 1929 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Maclovia (1948), One Day of Life (1950) and La malquerida (1949). She was married to Emilio Fernández. She died on August 13, 2014 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
28. Tongolele
Actress | Han matado a Tongolele
Yolanda Montes, artistically known as "Tongolele", became a professional dancer when she was only 15 years old. Tongolele was an exotic dancer and actress of Mexican films from the late 1940's into the 1980's. She was and still is well known in Latin America and Spain. Her father was Spanish/...
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