Angélica Aragón
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Angélica Aragón is a Mexican
actress of telenovela
s and such films as Dune
, A Walk in the Clouds
, Bella
, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
, Vivir un poco
, Mirada de mujer
, Novia que te vea, and the blockbuster film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
.
, the daughter of composer José Ángel Espinoza
. Aragón was raised in a family of intellectuals. She attended The Modern American College, The Sierra Nevada School and The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) for almost seven years. She also lived in India
, where she studied at The National Dance Academy and the Kerala Kelandam Dance School.
and made several telenovelas in the 1980s and 1990s while she acted in films such as Toy Soldiers
with Tim Robbins
, The Evil That Men Do with Charles Bronson
and the cult film
Dune. She played mostly roles of socialite
women and also the role of a noble indigenous
woman in De frente al sol ("Looking straight at the Sun"). She played the role of the wife of songwriter Álvaro Carrillo
in the motion picture Sabor a mí (With the Flavor of Me), alongside José José
, "El Príncipe de la Canción", who played the songwriter in the movie. Her telenovela
s career includes successful hits as Vanessa
(1982), with Lucía Mendez
, Chispita (1983), Vivir un poco
(1985), Días sin luna (1989), Mas alla del puente (1993) with Katy Jurado
and Cañaveral de Pasiones
. At the age of 44, after years of not receiving lead roles in Televisa, a company that focuses mainly on younger stars, she obtained a role on the second telenovela of new station TV Azteca
titled Mirada de mujer ("A woman's glance") portraying, ironically, an aging woman who is neglected by her husband and finds love in the arms of a younger man. Such bold move paid-off and the telenovela was a big success. She also appeared in the sequel Mirada de mujer: El regreso, as well as the film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
.
In 2006 Angélica participated in the film Bella
which received the top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival
by winning the highly-coveted Peoples Choice Award. As of 2007, Angélica is working as a director of Sueña (Dream), a play which is shown at the Independence Theatre in Mexico City
, with Irma Lozano, Aarón Hernán and Miguel Garza.
, in favor of the obtainment and promotion of better labor and socioeconomic conditions for women). A lot of manifiesto
s (statements) have been signed by Angélica Aragón, alongside the signatures of many other writers, directors, actors, actresses and, in general, Mexican and foreign intellectuals.
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
actress of telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
s and such films as Dune
Dune (film)
Dune is a 1984 science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known American and European actors in supporting roles. It was filmed at the Churubusco...
, A Walk in the Clouds
A Walk in the Clouds
A Walk in the Clouds is a 1995 American romantic drama film directed by Alfonso Arau. The screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen, Mark Miller, and Harvey Weitzman is based on the 1942 Italian film Four Steps in the Clouds by Piero Tellini, Cesare Zavattini, and Vittorio de Benedetti.-Plot:Shortly after...
, Bella
Bella (film)
Bella is a 2006 film directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde starring Eduardo Verastegui and Tammy Blanchard. Set in New York City, the film is about the events of one day and the impact on the characters' lives.-Plot:...
, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
# "Dance Like This" - Wyclef Jean featuring Claudette Ortiz # "Dirty Dancing" - The Black Eyed Peas# "Guajira " - Yerba Buena# "Can I Walk By" - Jazze Pha featuring Monica# "Satellite " - Santana featuring Jorge Moreno...
, Vivir un poco
Vivir un poco
Vivir un poco is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced and broadcast by Televisa in 1985. The story was a remake of the very popular Chilean telenovela, La Madrastra from 1981. Vivir un poco tells the story of the quest of Andrea to find justice and her long-lost children but must face the lies...
, Mirada de mujer
Mirada de mujer
Mirada de mujer is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on TV Azteca in 1997, based in the Colombian telenovela of 1994 " Señora Isabel". It is considered one of the best Telenovelas in the history of the television industry in Mexico...
, Novia que te vea, and the blockbuster film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
Sexo, pudor y lágrimas is a Mexican film, the second of the so-called New Era of the Cinema of Mexico . It was the first film directed by Antonio Serrano....
.
Early life
Aragón was born Angélica Espinoza Stransky in Mexico CityMexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, the daughter of composer José Ángel Espinoza
José Ángel Espinoza
José Ángel Espinoza Aragón , also known as Ferrusquilla, is a Mexican film actor and songwriter. He is the father of actress Angélica Aragón. There is a statue of him along Olas Altas Promenade in Mazatlan, Mexico.-Selected filmography:*Dos Alegres Gavilanes ... as Tito*House of Evil ... as Dr...
. Aragón was raised in a family of intellectuals. She attended The Modern American College, The Sierra Nevada School and The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) for almost seven years. She also lived in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, where she studied at The National Dance Academy and the Kerala Kelandam Dance School.
Career (movies and tv)
Back in Mexico, Aragón joined the ranks of TelevisaTelevisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
and made several telenovelas in the 1980s and 1990s while she acted in films such as Toy Soldiers
Toy Soldiers
A toy soldier is a miniature figurine that represents a soldier, but the term may also refer to:In film and television:*Toy Soldiers , an action/drama film in which terrorists take a school hostage...
with Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the former longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon...
, The Evil That Men Do with Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson , born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was an American actor, best-known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series...
and the cult film
Cult film
A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame among mainstream audiences...
Dune. She played mostly roles of socialite
Socialite
A socialite is a person who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained at fashionable upper-class events....
women and also the role of a noble indigenous
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples are ethnic groups that are defined as indigenous according to one of the various definitions of the term, there is no universally accepted definition but most of which carry connotations of being the "original inhabitants" of a territory....
woman in De frente al sol ("Looking straight at the Sun"). She played the role of the wife of songwriter Álvaro Carrillo
Álvaro Carrillo
Álvaro Carrillo Alarcón was a Mexican popular music composer born in San Juan Cacahuatepec, Oaxaca, on 2 December 1921, who died in a car accident on 3 April 1969...
in the motion picture Sabor a mí (With the Flavor of Me), alongside José José
José José
José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz , known by his artistic name José José, is a Mexican singer.Referred in the entertainment world as "El Príncipe de la Canción" , José José is best known for his romantic ballads and renowned for his vocals...
, "El Príncipe de la Canción", who played the songwriter in the movie. Her telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
s career includes successful hits as Vanessa
Vanessa
Vanessa can refer to:* A member service officer at SOMB.* Vanessa , a female given name coined by Jonathan Swift, originally as a nickname for Esther Vanhomrigh* Vanessa , a genus of butterflies...
(1982), with Lucía Mendez
Lucía Méndez
Lucía Leticia Méndez Pérez is a Mexican telenovela and film actress, top model and singer that has sold over 10 million records world wide.- Early success :...
, Chispita (1983), Vivir un poco
Vivir un poco
Vivir un poco is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced and broadcast by Televisa in 1985. The story was a remake of the very popular Chilean telenovela, La Madrastra from 1981. Vivir un poco tells the story of the quest of Andrea to find justice and her long-lost children but must face the lies...
(1985), Días sin luna (1989), Mas alla del puente (1993) with Katy Jurado
Katy Jurado
Katy Jurado , born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García in Mexico, D.F., was a Mexican actress who had a successful film career both in Mexico and in Hollywood....
and Cañaveral de Pasiones
Cañaveral de Pasiones
Cañaveral de pasiones is a Mexican telenovela, originally airing in 1996, and produced by Humberto Zurita and Christian Bach.-Plot:...
. At the age of 44, after years of not receiving lead roles in Televisa, a company that focuses mainly on younger stars, she obtained a role on the second telenovela of new station TV Azteca
TV Azteca
Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...
titled Mirada de mujer ("A woman's glance") portraying, ironically, an aging woman who is neglected by her husband and finds love in the arms of a younger man. Such bold move paid-off and the telenovela was a big success. She also appeared in the sequel Mirada de mujer: El regreso, as well as the film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
Sexo, pudor y lágrimas is a Mexican film, the second of the so-called New Era of the Cinema of Mexico . It was the first film directed by Antonio Serrano....
.
In 2006 Angélica participated in the film Bella
Bella (film)
Bella is a 2006 film directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde starring Eduardo Verastegui and Tammy Blanchard. Set in New York City, the film is about the events of one day and the impact on the characters' lives.-Plot:...
which received the top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
by winning the highly-coveted Peoples Choice Award. As of 2007, Angélica is working as a director of Sueña (Dream), a play which is shown at the Independence Theatre in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, with Irma Lozano, Aarón Hernán and Miguel Garza.
Telenovelas
- Mujeres Asesinas as Rita (2012, unreleased)
- Ni una vez mas as Azalea (2005-6)
- Mirada de mujer: El regreso as María Inés Domínguez de San Millán (2003)
- Por ti (2002)
- Todo por amor as Carmen (2000)
- Marea brava (1999)
- La chacala (1998) as The Devil
- Mirada de mujerMirada de mujerMirada de mujer is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on TV Azteca in 1997, based in the Colombian telenovela of 1994 " Señora Isabel". It is considered one of the best Telenovelas in the history of the television industry in Mexico...
as María Inés Domínguez de San Millán (1997) - Cañaveral de PasionesCañaveral de PasionesCañaveral de pasiones is a Mexican telenovela, originally airing in 1996, and produced by Humberto Zurita and Christian Bach.-Plot:...
as Josefina (1996) - Más allá del puente as Chole (1994)
- Agujetas de color de rosa as Bertha (1994)
- De frente al sol as Chole (1992)
- En carne propia as Magdalena Ovalle de Muriel (1990)
- Días sin luna as Lucía (1990)
- La casa al final de la calle as Leonor Altamirano Najera (1989)
- Cuna de lobosCuna de lobosCuna de lobos is a Mexican soap opera produced by Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas in 1986 to 1987. The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico...
as Amelia (1986) - Vivir un pocoVivir un pocoVivir un poco is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced and broadcast by Televisa in 1985. The story was a remake of the very popular Chilean telenovela, La Madrastra from 1981. Vivir un poco tells the story of the quest of Andrea to find justice and her long-lost children but must face the lies...
as Andrea Santos de Merisa Obregón (1985) - Principessa as Fernanda (1984)
- ChispitaChispita (Telenovela)Chispita ' is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is a familiar telenovela, set in Mexico. This telenovela was broadcast in 1983...
as Lucía (1983) - La fiera as La Costeña (1983)
- Vanessa as Luisa (1982)
- El hogar que yo robé as Genoveva (1981)
- Sandra y Paulina as Isabel (1980)
- El amor tiene cara de mujer (1971)
Hollywood
- BellaBella (film)Bella is a 2006 film directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde starring Eduardo Verastegui and Tammy Blanchard. Set in New York City, the film is about the events of one day and the impact on the characters' lives.-Plot:...
as the mother (2006) - Picking Up the PiecesPicking Up the PiecesPicking Up the Pieces is a 2000 film directed by Alfonso Arau and starring Woody Allen.-Story:Allen plays Tex, a butcher who kills his unfaithful wife Candy, played by Sharon Stone. After cutting up the body, Tex buries most of her body parts in the desert in New Mexico. A blind woman accidentally...
as Dolores (2000) - A Walk in the CloudsA Walk in the CloudsA Walk in the Clouds is a 1995 American romantic drama film directed by Alfonso Arau. The screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen, Mark Miller, and Harvey Weitzman is based on the 1942 Italian film Four Steps in the Clouds by Piero Tellini, Cesare Zavattini, and Vittorio de Benedetti.-Plot:Shortly after...
as María José Aragón (1996) - The Harvest as Dr. Emma (1993)
- Toy SoldiersToy SoldiersA toy soldier is a miniature figurine that represents a soldier, but the term may also refer to:In film and television:*Toy Soldiers , an action/drama film in which terrorists take a school hostage...
as Presidenta López (1984) - Samson and DelilahSamson and Delilah (1984 film)Samson and Delilah is a 1984 television movie adaptation of the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, starring Max von Sydow, Belinda Bauer, Antony Hamilton, Daniel Stern and Victor Mature, who played Samson in the 1949 film, having a small cameo as the father of Antony Hamilton's Samson...
as Niji (1984) - The Evil That Men DoThe Evil That Men Do (film)The Evil That Men Do is an action thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson that stars Charles Bronson.The film was adapted by David Lee Henry and John Crowther from a novel by R. Lance Hill...
as María (1984) - DuneDune (film)Dune is a 1984 science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known American and European actors in supporting roles. It was filmed at the Churubusco...
as Bene Gesserit Sister (1984)
Mexican cinema
- "Todos Hemos Pecado" (2009)
- Guadalupe (2006)
- La mujer de mi hermanoLa mujer de mi hermanoLa mujer de mi hermano is a 2005 Mexican film directed by Ricardo de Montreuil, based on the novel of the same name by the Peruvian writer, journalist and TV host Jaime Bayly...
(2005) - Tres (2005)
- Zapata: El sueño de un héroeZapata: El sueño de un héroeZapata: El sueño del héroe, also titled simply Zapata, is a Mexican motion picture first released in 2004....
as Waitress #1 (2004) - Desnudos (2004)
- El crimen del padre Amaro as Augustina Sanjuanera (2002)
- ¿Y si Cristóbal despierta? as Mariana (2000)
- El grito as Blanca (2000)
- Crónica de un desayuno as Paloma (1999)
- Sexo, pudor y lágrimasSexo, pudor y lágrimasSexo, pudor y lágrimas is a Mexican film, the second of the so-called New Era of the Cinema of Mexico . It was the first film directed by Antonio Serrano....
as Carlos' mother (1999) - Entre la tarde y la noche (1999)
- Fibra óptica as Doña Carmen (1998)
- Ámbar as Adrianina (1997)
- De muerte natural (1996)
- En el aire as Teresa (1995)
- Cilantro y perejil as Teresa (1995)
- Sucesos distantes as Irene Gorenko (1994)
- Novia que te vea as Oshinika's Mother (1993)
- Gertrudis Bocanegra (1992)
- Pueblo de madera as a corner shop owner (1990)
- Goitia, un dios para sí mismo (1988)
- La furia de un dios (1987)
- Lamberto Quintero as María de los Ángeles (1987)
- Sabor a mí" as Ana María (1987)
Political activities
Aragón is an activist, mainly in Mexico but also outside Mexico. She has been working pro women (against sexual abuseSexual abuse
Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When that force is immediate, of short duration, or infrequent, it is called sexual assault. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser or molester...
, in favor of the obtainment and promotion of better labor and socioeconomic conditions for women). A lot of manifiesto
Manifiesto
-Track listing:# "La Saga" - 01:45# "Perfil Siniestro" - 03:40# "Besando La Tierra" - 05:41# "Más Allá Del Asfalto" - 04:22# "Children of The Grave " - 05:16# "Lukumi" - 02:42# "Estadio Chico" - 04:12...
s (statements) have been signed by Angélica Aragón, alongside the signatures of many other writers, directors, actors, actresses and, in general, Mexican and foreign intellectuals.
External links
- Angélica Aragón at the Telenovela Database
- Angélica Aragón- photos