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Yolanda Varela

Actor
Died August 29, 2009 (79 years)
Yolanda Varela (March 30, 1930 - August 29, 2009) was one of the greatest Mexican actresses of the golden age of the Mexican Cinema. She was born on March 30, 1930. She started in the business at a very young age. She studied ballet in the National Institute of the Performing Arts. Yolanda Varela was the leading actress in many Mexican films and some Spanish/Mexican co-productions. Among her most important films are, Dos tipos de cuidado (1953) alongside Golden Age-idols Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete, Llamas Contra el Viento and El Niño y el Muro (1965), the film was about the segregation and violence situation in Western Europe, it was directed by Ismael Rodriguez and filmed in East Berlin, Germany. She also co-starred with Daniel Gélin, Arturo de Córdova, Jorge Mistral, Manolo Fabregas, Ernesto Alonso, Pedro Vargas, Mauricio Garces, Pedro Vargas, Fernando Soler, Resortes, Clavillazo, German Valdez "Tintan", Enrique Rambal, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Joaquín Cordero, and many more Mexican celebrities. She met her husband, the film producer Fernando de Fuentes Reyes, while working for him on the movie Lo que le Paso a Sanson. She died on August 29, 2009 of natural causes.
Known For
  • Two Careful Fellows
  • Escuela de rateros
  • The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
  • Face of the Screaming Werewolf
  • Departamento de soltero
  • Lo que le pasó a Sansón
  • La herida luminosa
  • Yo quiero ser artista
  • Island for Two
  • La fuerza de los humildes
  • Al diablo las mujeres

Filmography

2005
1971
1965
1964
Face of the Screaming Werewolf · as Woman In Apartment (as Landa Varle)
1960
Amor en la sombra · as Mariela Morán
1960
La casa del terror · as Paquita
1959
1958
1958
Escuela de rateros · as Amante De Víctor
1957
Locos peligrosos · as Minerva
1957
1956
1956
La herida luminosa · as Adela
1956
1956
El sultán descalzo · as Cristina Mena
1956
1955
El 7 leguas · as Adelita
1955
1955
1955
1953
Two Careful Fellows · as María
1952

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