María Félix

María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña ( born April 8, 1914 in Álamos, Sonora, † April 8, 2002 in Mexico City) was a Mexican film actress. Because of their high prestige it has been specifically mentioned in their later years La Doña. It applies in addition to Dolores del Río as "the most beautiful face of the Mexican film ".

Life

In Guadalajara, she was elected Carnival Queen and then went towards the end of the 1930s, to Mexico City, where she was discovered by Fernando Palacio for the film. Her film debut was in 1942 in El peñón de las Animas by Miguel Zacarias. It was in the 1940s, the star of the Latin American film and was portrayed by Jean Cocteau, Diego Rivera and Leonora Carrington. She turned with well-known Mexican directors such as Emilio Fernández, Julio Bracho, Luis Buñuel (then a Mexican citizen ) and Fernando de Fuentes and abroad, among others with Jean Renoir. Your role type is the image of the femme fatale, but she was able to expand in the late 1950s to strong female persons.

In 1986, she was honored for her life's work with the Golden Ariel.

María Félix was married five times, including with the singer and actor Jorge Negrete, the composer and singer Agustín Lara and singer Raul Prado. Lara wrote the song María Bonita for them. She died at her 88th birthday of heart failure.

Filmography (selection)

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