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5 famous Mexican actors


 

Mexico has fashioned some of the greatest, entertainment in Latin America. The country’s stars have gone as far as taking over Hollywood.

Majority of the Latin characters we see in English speaking amusement is thanks to Mexican celebrities who pulled down barriers and transitioned into American platforms.

Eva Longoria and Salma Hayek, are just a few of Mexico’s gifted personalities who are shaking thing up in the movie industry. Mexicans are also leading behind the screens, with some of the most renowned directors in the movie business.

Mexico has produced pop icons like Paulina Rubio and Thalía, and part American celebrities like Chiquis and Becky G. These celebrities continue to excel and make their people proud.

Here, you will look at five famous Mexican actors. These are all actors who claim Mexico as their birthplace.

1. Katy Jurado

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Katy Jurado was originally, María Cristina Estela Jurado García, introduced to the world on January 16, 1924. Her early years were amid lavishness until the federal regime took possession of her family’s land. They did so to reallocate it to landless country people.

When movie star Emilio Fernandez discovered Katy at the age of 16 and wanted to cast her in one of his films, Jurado’s grandmother objected, however, Jurado eventually made her debut.

Her first starring role was in No matarás in 1943. This was during what we now know as “The Golden Age of Mexican films”. Blessed with striking beauty and a self-assured personality, Jurado focused on taking on the characters of strong-minded women in a lot of films in Mexico and America.

Jurado has taken the Ariel awards home thrice, the Mexican equal of the Oscar. She is remembered as the Best Supporting Actress in 1999 for her role in “El Evangelio de las Maravillas”. Other awards include Best Actress in 1974 for Fe, esperanza y Caridad, and best Supporting Actress in 1954 for Bunuel’s El Bruto.

Katy Jurado died on July 5, 2002, at the age of 78 at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

2. Rita Moreno

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Rita Moreno is one of the very few performers to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, claiming the title of ‘EGOT’ — Introduced to the world as Rosita Dolores Alverío on December 11, 1931.

Her mother relocated to New York City in 1937, taking Rita with her, separating from her allegedly disloyal husband. Rita’s professional career began before she was a teenager.

Moreno won a 1972 Grammy Award for her job in ‘The Electric Company’s soundtrack collection’, tailing it up three years after the fact with a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for “The Ritz” (a job she would repeat in the film form, The Ritz). She at that point won Emmy Awards for The Muppet Show (1976) and The Rockford Files (1974).

She has kept on working consistently on the screen and in front of an audience, cementing her notoriety for being a national fortune, a status formally sanctioned with the honour of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bramble in June 2004.

3. Demián Bichir

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Demián Bichir Nájera was conceived in Mexico City, Mexico, to María de la Cruz Najera Botello, an entertainer, and Alejandro Bichir Batres, a theater executive.

Demián started acting, at age three at the Palace of Fine Arts in his local Mexico City. He became a part of the National Theater Company of Mexico at age 13 and acted in a few plays coordinated by eminent global experts, for example, José Tamayo, José Quintero, and Clifford Williams

the proposal of a job in Hasta Morir, for which he won an Ariel (what might be compared to an Oscar). His profession took off in Mexico. In 1991, his film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas broke Mexican film industry records turning into the #1 film throughout the entire existence of Mexican film.

4. Lupe Velez

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Lupe Velez was conceived on July 18, 1908, in San Luis de Potosi, Mexico, as Maria Guadalupe Villalobos Velez. She went to Texas at 13 years old to live in a religious circle. She later conceded that she was a sorry understudy as she was so rowdy.

Her presentation at Teatro Principal was an incredible achievement particularly in light of the fact that hours prior to her first show she was taboo to follow up on stage (she wasn’t viewed as a “top-notch” on-screen character by then Mexican on-screen characters organization).

Her extraordinary achievement joined with the rising professions of other Latin individuals like Valentino, Del Río and Novarro, called the consideration of Hollywood big shot Hal Roach who offered Vélez an agreement to make motion pictures.

She got the lead in Gaucho, The (1927) with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Her Hollywood profession can be considered the best of every single Mexican star of that age.

Medications and liquor crushed her life at 34. At the point when she ended it all, she was pregnant by youthful entertainer Harald Maresch.

5. Salma Hayek

 

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One of Hollywood’s most amazing driving on-screen characters, Salma Hayek was conceived on September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico.

She before long handled the title job in Teresa (1989), an immensely fruitful drama that earned her the star status in her local Mexico.

Salma has won various honours — she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special for The Maldonado Miracle in 2004.

She likewise got a Primetime Emmy Award selection for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series after visitor featuring in the ABC TV parody dramatization Ugly Betty in 2007.

Hayek’s ongoing movies include Grown-Ups, Puss in Boots, Tale of Tales, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, and Like a Boss among such huge numbers of others.

 

Her creation organizations “Ventanarosa” delivered the 1999 Mexican element film No One Writes to the Colonel. The film appeared at the Cannes Film Festival — it was chosen as Mexico’s authentic Oscar submission for a best outside film.

Her break came when Robert Rodriguez and his spouse Elizabeth Avellan happened to watch and were stricken with the well-informed, obstinate young woman. Robert at that point allowed her to star inverse Antonio Banderas in the now-exemplary Desperado in 1995 and the rest was history.

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