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Biography

Irasema Dilián was born in Río de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, to Polish parents. She began her film career in Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

, having appeared in Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

's Maddalena, and Zero in Condotta. Over the next few years she worked for de Sica, Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda was an Egyptian-born Italian film director. Best known for his horror and thriller movies, Freda had no great love for the horror films he was assigned, but rather favored the epic sword and sandal pictures...

, and Mario Soldati

Mario Soldati

Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...

, together with actors like Alida Valli

Alida Valli

Alida Valli , sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, Bernardo...

 and Rossano Brazzi

Rossano Brazzi

-Biography:Brazzi was born in Bologna to Adelmo and Maria Brazzi. He attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, where he was raised from the age of four...

.

She appeared in four Spanish films between the years 1946 and 1949 before moving to Mexico

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...

 and making her debut in Muchachas de uniforme (Girls in Uniform, 1950), a remake of the 1931 German picture Mädchen in Uniform. In 1952, Dilián was nominated for an Ariel Award

Ariel Award

The Ariel is the Mexican Academy of Film Award. It has been awarded annually since 1947. The award recognizes excellence in motion picture making, such as acting, directing and screenwriting in Mexican cinema. It is considered the most prestigious award in the Mexican movie industry.- History :The...

 for Paraíso Robado. Over the next several years, Dilián starred in a number of important films with such major stars as Arturo de Córdova and Pedro Infante

Pedro Infante

José Pedro Infante Cruz , better known as Pedro Infante, is the most famous actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and is an idol of the Latinamerican people, together with Jorge Negrete and Javier Solís, who were styled the Tres Gallos Mexicanos . He was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa,...

, and played the leading female role in Luis Buñuel's Abismos de pasión

Wuthering Heights (1954 film)

Wuthering Heights is a film directed by Luis Buñuel. In 1931, Buñuel and Pierre Unik wrote a screenplay based on the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights but were never able to get financing. The 1954 film was produced by Óscar Dancigers and costarred Irasema Dilián and Jorge Mistral as the Cathy...

(1954).

Some of her Mexican films were scripted by her Italian husband, Arduino "Dino" Maiuri. Dilián's last Mexican-made film was Pablo y Carolina (1955), though she did appear in several co-productions in 1956. In 1958, she appeared in her last Spanish-speaking film.

Filmography

• La Muralla (1958)
• La Estrella del rey (1957)
• Pablo y Carolina (1957)
• Y si ella volviera (1957)
• Primavera en el corazón (1956)
• Historia de un abrigo de mink (1955)
• La Desconocida (1954)
• Un Minuto de bondad (1954)
• Abismos de pasión
  Wuthering Heights (1954 film)
  Wuthering Heights is a film directed by Luis Buñuel. In 1931, Buñuel and Pierre Unik wrote a screenplay based on the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights but were never able to get financing. The 1954 film was produced by Óscar Dancigers and costarred Irasema Dilián and Jorge Mistral as the Cathy...
  
  (1954)
• Dos mundos y un amor (1954)
• Las Infieles (1953)
• Fruto prohibido (1953)
• La Cobarde (1953)
• La Mujer que tu quieres (1952)
• Angélica (1952)
• Paraíso robado (1951)
• Muchachas de Uniforme (1951)
• Né de père inconnu (1950)
• Il Vedovo allegro
  Il vedovo allegro
  Il vedovo allegro is a 1950 Italian romance film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Carlo Dapporto.-Cast:* Carlo Dapporto - Bebè* Isa Barzizza - Lucy* Amedeo Nazzari - Il professore De Carlo* Ave Ninchi - Dolores...
  
  (1950)
• Botta e risposta
  I'm in the Revue
  I'm in the Revue is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Soldati. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.-Cast:* Nino Taranto - L'Habilleur* Isa Barzizza - Cleo, la kleptomane...
  
  (1950)
• 39 cartas de amor (1949)
• Donne senza nome (1949)
• Il Corriere del re (1947)
• La Figlia del capitano
  La figlia del capitano
  La figlia del capitano is a 1947 Italian adventure film directed by Mario Camerini. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Irasema Dilián - Maria Ivanovna "Mascia" Mironova...
  
  (1947)
• Cuando llegue la noche (1946)
• Un Drama nuevo(1946)
• Aquila nera (1946)
• Cero en conducta (1945)
• Fuga a due voci (1943)
• Malombra (1942)
• La Principessa del sogno (1942)
• Violette nei capelli (1942)
• I Sette peccati (1942
• Teresa Venerdì (1941)
• Ore 9 lezione di chimica
  Schoolgirl Diary
  Schoolgirl Diary is a 1941 drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli.-Cast:* Alida Valli - Anna Campolmi* Irasema Dilián - Maria Rovani * Andrea Checchi - Il professore Marini...
  
  (1941)
• Ecco la felicità (1940)
• Maddalena, zero in condotta (1940)

External links

• Cine Mexicano
• Biographical Dictionary of Mexican Film Performers