María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, known professionally as Katy Jurado, was a Mexican actress. Jurado began her acting career in Mexico during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. In 1951, she was recruited by American filmmakers in Mexico and began her Hollywood career during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She acted in popular Western films of the 1950s and 1960s. Her talent for playing a variety of characters helped pave the way for Mexican actresses in American cinema. She was the first Latin American actress nominated for an Oscar, as Best Supporting Actress for her work in Broken Lance (1954), and was the first to win a Golden Globe Award, for her performance in High Noon (1952).
Bárbara Mori Ochoa is an Uruguayan-born Mexican actress, model, producer and writer. She is known for playing the main character in the 2004 telenovela Rubí, one of the most successful telenovelas of all time. Since 2005, she has appeared as the lead character in several Hollywood and Bollywood films such as My Brother's Wife (2005), Violanchelo (2008), Insignificant Things (2008) produced by Guillermo del Toro, Kites (2010), Cantinflas (2014) and Treintona, soltera y fantástica (2016).
Edith González Fuentes was a Mexican actress. She is best remembered for working on multiple telenovelas produced by three different multimedia companies, which included Televisa, TV Azteca and Telemundo.
Fernando Luján was a Mexican actor. He was a star of the silver screen in classic mexican films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
María Cecilia Suárez de Garay, known professionally as Cecilia Suárez, is a Mexican actress and a prominent activist working with the United Nations and European Union campaigning against femicide and violence against women. She has starred in film, television, and theater across the United States, Mexico, and Spain.
María Elena Enríquez Ruiz, known as Helena Rojo, is a Mexican actress and model.
Fanny Schiller Hernández was a Mexican award-winning character actress and television star, who also acted in operettas and musicals, during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She won two Ariel Awards for best supporting actress, and was nominated for two additional films. She was a social activist, creating the Actor's Union and inspiring the creation of “Rosa Mexicano”. She was accomplished at dubbing and was the voice of many animated characters as well as the official voice of several other notable Mexican actresses.
Leonor Llausás Tostado was a Mexican television and film actress who appeared in over 100 works of film and television. She was nominated multiple times for the Ariel Awards and won a Best Actress award in 1955 from the film Los Fernandez we peralvillo, in 1975 won Diosa de Plata for Las poquianchis. She also was awarded the "Virginia Fabregas" medal of honor by the Mexican National Association of Actors.
Ela Velden, is a Mexican actress and model. In October 2014, she made her telenovela debut co-starring in producer Pedro Damián's remake, Muchacha italiana viene a casarse. In 2016, she starred as the lead role in Despertar contigo.
Anita Blanch was a Spanish-born, Mexican actress, who worked in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was nominated for an Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Film three times and won the Best Supporting Actress Award from Diosa de Plata in 1963.
Anabel Gutiérrez Aicua was a Mexican actress and comedian. Among her most memorable works is her participation in the film School for Tramps (1955), as well as her appearances on the program Chespirito (1970) playing the character of Doña Espotaverderona in some sketches.
The 11th TVyNovelas Awards is an Academy of special awards to the best telenovelas and TV shows. The awards ceremony took place on March 29, 1993 in the Centro de Espectáculos "Premier" in Mexico D.F. The ceremony was televised in Mexico by El canal de las estrellas.
The Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC) in Mexico. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the Mexican film industry. In 1947, the 1st and 2nd Ariel Awards were held, with Lilia Michel winning in both ceremonies for the films Un Beso en la Noche and Vértigo, respectively. With the exception of the years 1959 to 1971, when the Ariel Awards were suspended, the award has been given annually. Nominees and winners are determined by a committee formed every year consisting of academy members, previous winners and individuals with at least two Ariel nominations; the committee members submit their votes through the official AMACC website.
Adriana Paz is a Mexican actress and dancer. She began her artistic career in Spain, shooting commercials and acting in a play. She was recognized for her role as Toña in the Mexican film Rudo y Cursi (2009) with a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress. She garnered critical praise starring as Miranda in Las Horas Muertas (2013), for which she was awarded Best Actress at the Morelia International Film Festival. She subsequently starred in the TV series Sucedió en Un Día (2010), Capadocia (2010), El Encanto del Aguila (2011), Dios, Inc. (2016), and Vis a vis (2018-2019).
Sofía Espinosa Carrasco is a Mexican actress, writer and director. She began her artistic preparation at the National Conservatory of Music, and followed with studies at Casazul in Mexico, Claudio Tolcachir's school in Argentina, the Stella Adler Studio in New York City, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She received recognition for her role of Mati in the Mexican film La Niña en la Piedra (2006), for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Actress. She subsequently starred in the TV series Capadocia (2010) and Bienvenida Realidad (2011).
The 60th Ariel Awards ceremony, organized by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) took place on June 5, 2018, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. During the ceremony, AMACC presented the Ariel Award in 26 categories honoring films released in 2017. The ceremony was televised in Mexico by Canal 22.
Cecilia Suárez is a Mexican actress. She has starred in over 60 films and television shows since 1997, being nominated for her acting on 15 occasions. She has received two lifetime achievement awards for her film and TV career: one in Mexico and one in Spain; in Mexico she was the first woman to receive such an award.
El club de los insomnes or El refugio de los insomnes is a 2018 Mexican drama film directed and written by José Eduardo Giordano, and Sergio Goyri Jr. The film premiered on 15 June 2018, and stars Alejandra Ambrosi, Cassandra Ciangherotti, and Leonardo Ortizgris. The plot revolves around a friendship between a man suffering from insomnia, an aspiring photographer and a woman who is not sure about her pregnancy. They meet every night in a mini-mart. The film was available for streaming in worldwide on Netflix on 30 November 2018.
Happy Times is a 2014 Mexican comedy film directed by Luis Javier Henaine. The film premiered first on 21 October 2014 at the Morelia International Film Festival. And subsequently it was distributed by Cinépolis in 31 cities of Mexico on 20 February 2015. It stars Luis Arrieta, and Cassandra Ciangherotti.
The Hours with You is a 2014 Mexican drama film by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta in her directorial debut.
