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Carmen Montejo

Actor
Died February 25, 2013 (87 years)
Carmen Montejo (born María Teresa Sánchez González; May 26, 1925 - February 25, 2013) was a Cuban-born actress of telenovelas, stage and the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico.

Real name: María Teresa Sánchez González Montejo started her career in radio as a child at the age of 6 in Cuba in a show titled Abuelita Cata transmitted on CMOX. While still in Cuba she was nicknamed "Muñeca" Sánchez in theatre and because of her golden curls as the Cuban Shirley Temple. She began acting studies in 1939 at Universidad de La Habana under Ludwing Shayovich. After concluding her collage studies her parents offered her a trip to the United States but instead she chose to go to Mexico for two months.

After arriving in Mexico she obtained a job in radio claiming to be a famous star in Cuba with a role in the radionovela El diario de Susana Galván. In 1943 she obtained a role in the film Resurrección directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and then Chano Ureta who changed her professional name to "Carmen Montejo" when she told him she lived across the Hotel Montejo.

In Venezuela she participated in one of the first films shot in that country titled Páramo (1954). In theater she obtained the role of Adela in the 1946 production of The House of Bernarda Alba of Federico García Lorca. She co-starred with Virginia Fábregas and was directed by Ricardo Mondragón at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She has also participated in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Trojans.

In television she has performed roles in many telenovelas as well as the sitcom Tres Generaciones with Angélica María and Sasha Sokol in the 1980s.

For her work in television, films and theatre, Montejo was inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias.

Carmen Montejo died on February 25, 2013, in Mexico City. She was 87.
Known For
  • El vampiro
  • Nosotros los pobres
  • In the Palm of Your Hand
  • Den Of Wolves
  • ¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
  • La Casa Que Arde de Noche
  • The Cubs
  • The Faces of the Moon
  • Doña Macabra
  • Las aventuras de Juliancito
  • La verdadera vocación de Magdalena
  • Ni Chana, ni Juana
  • Sor Ye-yé
  • Prisión de mujeres
  • Presage
  • Mamá, soy Paquito
  • The Hex
  • La muñeca perversa
  • En la trampa
  • Mujeres sin mañana
  • Adventures in Time

Filmography

2008
En Nombre Del Amor (TV Series) · as Madeleine Martelli
2008
La Rosa de Guadalupe (TV Series) · as Carmela
2007
Amor sin maquillaje (TV Series) · as Verónica Vda. De Velázquez
2002
The Faces of the Moon · as Mariana Toscano
2001
Adventures in Time (TV Series) · as Margarita Rosales De Flores
2001
2000
Friends 4 Ever (TV Series) · as Doña Julia Ruvalcaba Vda. De Vidal
1999
1996
Te Sigo Amando (TV Series) · as Paula Garza Vda. De Torres-Quintero
1986
Den Of Wolves (TV Series) · as Esperanza Mandujano
1985
1985
Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real (TV Series) · as Margarita
1984
Mamá, soy Paquito · as Mrs. Falcon
1984
Ni Chana, ni Juana · as Pilar Del Río
1983
The Hex (TV Series) · as Doña Emilia
1982
1981
1979
En la trampa · as Laura
1978
The Children of Sanchez · as Aunt Guadalupe
1977
Prisión de mujeres · as Marta/ La Macabra
1977
Dinastía de la muerte · as Doña Herminia Del Fierro
1976
1976
Coronation · as Doña Elisa - Abuela
1975
Paloma (TV Series) · as Gloria Nava
1974
Presage · as Doña Agueda
1973
The Prophet Mimi · as Magdalena, Prostituta Vecina
1973
The Cubs · as Mrs. Cuéllar
1972
1972
Doña Macabra · as Demetria
1972
Las vírgenes locas · as Elena Guardiola
1971
Los marcados · as Remedios
1969
La muñeca perversa · as Tía Jenny
1969
Las aventuras de Juliancito · as Tía Claudia
1969
1968
1968
Sor Ye-yé · as Madre Superiora
1964
1961
Young People · as Rosa, Madre De Alicia
1958
1957
El vampiro · as Eloisa
1957
1955
1955
La sospechosa · as Señora Adela Perez
1953
Reportaje · as Feminist Nurse
1953
1952
1951
1951
1951
1951
In the Palm of Your Hand · as Clara Stein
1951
1949
1949
1948
Nosotros los pobres · as Yolanda La Tísica
1946
Crimen en la alcoba · as Martha
1943
1943
Resurrección · as Presa

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