Beatriz Sheridan

Beatriz Sheridan
Born	Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough Mexico City, México

Beatriz Sheridan (June 25, 1934 – April 30, 2006) was a Mexican actress and director. She died from a heart attack.

Biography

Beatriz Sheridan was born in Mexico, D.F., Mexico, as Elizabeth Ann Sheridan on June 25, 1934, to an English mother and a Mexican father. She had seven siblings. After studying at the University of Missouri and studying acting with Seki Sano, she participated in the first Mexican telenovela in 1958 called Senda prohibida and later became one of Mexico's premier stage actresses. She received several awards for her work in the theater. For her 1980 performance in Fassbinder's Las amargas lágrimas de Petra von Kant, she received every available award––the only person ever to have been so honored. Also to honor her for this performance, Mexican Poet Guadalupe Amor penned her poem Las Amargas Lágrimas de Beatriz Sheridan. She won two "Ariel" awards for movie roles, notably her performance in the movie Confidencias. She became Mexico's first television soap opera director, achieving wide acclaim, and devoted her last years to work in this medium both as director and actress. In 2004, two years before her death, the UNESCO International Theatre Institute awarded her a medal for her life's work in the theater. Her contributions to the Mexican performing arts community span a fifty-year period. Beatriz Sheridan is listed in Francisco Blanco Figueroa's anthology, Mujeres mexicanas del siglo XX - La otra revolución.

Selected filmography

• Pedro Páramo (1967)
• Alondra (1995)

Confidencias

External links

• Beatriz Sheridan at IMDb