Ada Carrasco was a Mexican

Mexico

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 film

Film

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 and television

Television

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 actress. She started her career as an actress in 1952, and went on to make over 38 soap operas, including Los Ricos También Lloran, with Verónica Castro

Verónica Castro

Verónica Castro is a Mexican actress, singer and television host. She is the mother of singer Cristian Castro and filmmaker Michelle Sáinz Castro and the sister of actress Beatriz Castro,and telenovela producer José Alberto Castro....

 in 1979, Rosa Salvaje in 1987, De Frente al Sol in 1992, Más Allá del Puente in 1994, and finally, her last soap opera was made in 1994 in Marimar with Thalía

Thalía

Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda , known simply by the mononym Thalía , is a Mexican singer and actress. She has sold over 40 million albums worldwide...

. She died of a heart attack on 5 April 1994.

She is also known for various film appearances from Two Mules for Sister Sara

Two Mules for Sister Sara

Two Mules for Sister Sara is an American-Mexican western film starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine set during the French intervention in Mexico. The film was released in 1970 and directed by Don Siegel. It was to have been the first in a five-year exclusive association between Universal...

 (1970) where she was given a supporting role, to OK Mister Pancho (1981) where she starred as a woman who traveled to the United States with María Elena Velasco

María Elena Velasco

María Elena Velasco is a Mexican actress, film director, award-winning screenwriter, producer, and singer. She is also one of Mexico's few major female film directors...

's character of La India María.

Mother of the also actress Malena Doria and great-grandmother of the actress Andrea Escalona.

Filmography (Selected)

• La Leona (1961)
• Casa de huéspedes (1964)
• Maria Isabel (1966)
• El juicio de los hijos (1967)
• Lucía Sombra (1971)
• La casa de Bernarda Alba (1974)
• Ardiente secreto (1978)
• 'Los Ricos Tambien Lloran
  Los ricos también lloran
  Los Ricos También Lloran is a popular telenovela produced in Mexico in 1979, starring Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and Rocío Banquells. Castro also sang the theme Aprendí a Llorar , a song written by Lolita de la Colina. The telenovela was produced by Chilean Valentín Pimstein and Carlos...
  
   (1979)
• Bianca Vidal (1982)
• Rosa Salvaje
  Rosa salvaje
  Rosa salvaje is a Mexican telenovela that was broadcast in 1987. It starred the popular Mexican actress Verónica Castro, who played the main character, "Rosa", co-starring with Guillermo Capetillo as her love interest and Laura Zapata as the villain of the story.This telenovela was a huge success...
  
   (1987)
• Amor en silencio
  Amor en silencio
  Amor En Silencio is a Mexican telenovela, produced and broadcast byTelevisa in 1989. The telenovela, which starred Erika Buenfil and Omar Fierro in the lead roles, is most remembered for its shocking scene in which the main heroine, Marisela and her fiancé Fernando are shot to death at their...
  
   (1988)
• Amor de nadie (1990)
• De frente al sol (1992)
• Mas allá del puente (1993)
• Marimar (1994)

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