Angélica Aragón

Angélica Aragón
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Born	Angélica Espinoza Stransky (1953-07-11) July 11, 1953 Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Actress

Angélica Espinoza Stransky, best known as Angélica Aragón (Spanish pronunciation: [aŋˈxelika aɾaˈɣon]; born July 11, 1953) is a Mexican stage, film and telenovelas actress. She is the daughter of Mexican composer José Ángel Espinoza "Ferrusquilla". She is known for her performances in several Mexican and American film productions, as well starred the classic Mexican telenovelas Vivir un poco (1985) and Mirada de Mujer (1997).

Early life

Angelica Espinosa Stransky is the daughter of the Mexican composer José Angel Espinoza "Ferrusquilla" and Sonia Stranksy. She had a younger sister named Vindya. By mother's side, has two half brothers, John and Jacqueline. Her parents divorced when Angelica was a child. She spent her childhood between television and film forums with her father. She began her acting career in various projects of student theater. She made several plays of Federico García Lorca. In 1971, she made a small role in the Mexican telenovela El amor tiene cara de mujer. She also participated as an extra in the film The Holy Mountain, directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973). Eventually she emigrated to England, where she studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). She also lived in India with her then husband, studying drama at The National Dance Academy and in the Kerala Kelandam Dance School.

Career

Television

Returning to Mexico in 1980, Aragón integrates to the Mexican telenovelas of Televisa, by the hand of the producer Valentín Pimstein, whom she knows through the director of Greek origin Dimitrio Sarrás. She started with a small role in the telenovela Sandra y Paulina starring Jacqueline Andere. Aragón performed in another six telenovelas with Pimstein: El hogar que yo robé (1981), with Angélica María; Vanessa (1982), with Lucía Méndez; Chispita (1983) (which is her first starring role); La fiera (1984) and Principessa (1984).

In 1985, Pimstein gives her the principal role of the classic telenovela Vivir un poco, first Mexican version of the novel La madrastra. Her interpretation of the story's heroine gave her first big hit and one of the most outstanding of her career.

Her increasingly involvement in the film projects, cause her to return to television until 1989 with the telenovela La casa al final de la calle, directed by Jorge Fons.

In 1990, Aragón starring in two television productions: Días sin luna, where she plays a woman with a terminal illness and En carne propia. In 1992, Aragón plays the role of "Chole", a Zapotec Indian woman in the telenovela De frente al Sol and his sequel Mas allá del puente (1993). In 1996, participates in Cañaveral de Pasiones. This will be the last soap opera to date by Angelica in Televisa.

In 1997, the company Argos Comunicación, offers to Aragón the starring role in the Mexican adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Señora Isabel entitled Mirada de Mujer, in TV Azteca. Her rendition of "Maria Ines Dominguez of San Millán ', a mature woman in love with a man 20 years younger, brings the greatest success of her television career in a television project that is breaking ground in Mexico at the time.

Following the success of Mirada de Muujer, Angelica made only sporadic appearances on television. She returning with a starring role in 2000 on the soap opera Todo por amor, the Mexican version of the Colombian telenovela La madre. In 2003, returns to television for the second part of Mirada de mujer: Mirada de mujer: El regreso. Although the telenovela captures good hearing, fails, however, exceed the success of the first part. In 2005, Angelica performs her latest work in television in the mini-serie Ni una vez más. She also directs some episodes of the TV Azteca program Lo que callamos las mujeres. In 2011 Angelica returns to television with a small role in the television series A corazón abierto, Mexican version of the American series Grey's Anatomy.

Film

In 1984, Aragón debuts in film invited by the producer Pancho Kohner (son of the Mexican actress Lupita Tovar)in the American film The Evil That Men Do, directed by J. Lee Thompson alongside Charles Bronson. She participates in other three film productions in Hollywood: Toy Soldiers (1984), with Jason Miller and Tim Robbins; Samson and Delilah (1984), with Max von Sydow and Victor Mature, and Dune (1984), directed by David Lynch, with Silvana Mangano, Jose Ferrer and the singer Sting, among others. She debuts in the Mexican films in 1986 in the film Los dos frailes, along with Mario Almada.

Eventually, for the rest of the decade Aragón makes films like Lamberto Quintero (1987), alongside folk singer Antonio Aguilar; Sabor a mí (1988), with the singer José José, inspired by the life of Mexican composer Álvaro Carrillo; La furia de un dios(1988), directed by Felipe Cazals, and Goitia, un dios para si mismo (1989), inspired by the life of the painter Francisco Goitia.

Early in the next decade, Aragón participates in movies like Gertrudis (1992), based on the life of Mexican political activist Gertrudis Bocanegra, with Ofelia Medina, and Ámbar (1994). In 1994, she obtained his first Silver Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress for her participation in the film Novia que te vea. In 1995, Angelica is involved in 2 successful films: Cilantro y perejil, in Mexico, and the American production A Walk in the Clouds, directed by Alfonso Arau, with Keanu Reeves, Anthony Quinn and others. In 1999, she participates in Crónica de un desayuno and the successful film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas. In 2000, Aragón meets with Alfonso Arau in Picking Up the Pieces. In 2002 participates in the successful and controversial movie of Carlos Carrera The Crime of Father Amaro, with Gael García Bernal. In 2004 participates in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, with Diego Luna. In 2006, she participates in the hit movie Bella, to name a few of her most prominent film work. Among her most recent film appearances include From Mexico with Love (2009), and Cinco de Mayo: La batalla (2013).

Personal life

When Angelica was 19 years old, she married a musician named Shahid of Indian origin. They lived in India for one year. The marriage ended a year later. In 1989, while she was filming a movie in Zacatecas, she had an affair with an old friend from her youth named Rodrigo. Her only daughter, María, was born as result of this relationship.

Political activities

Aragón is an activist, mainly in Mexico but also outside Mexico. She has been working pro women (against sexual abuse, in favor of the obtainment and promotion of better labor and socioeconomic conditions for women). A lot of manifiestos (statements) have been signed by Angélica Aragón, alongside the signatures of many other writers, directors, actors, actresses and, in general, Mexican and foreign intellectuals.

Filmography

Telenovelas

• A corazón abierto as Elena (2011)
• Ni una vez mas as Azalea (2005-6)
• Mirada de mujer: El regreso as María Inés Domínguez de San Millán (2003)
• Por tí (2002)
• Todo por amor as Carmen (2000)
• Marea brava (1999)
• La chacala (1998) as The Devil
• Mirada de Mujer as María Inés Domínguez de San Millán (1997)
• Cañaveral de Pasiones as Josefina, director (1996)
• Agujetas de color de rosa as Bertha (1994)
• Más allá del puente as Chole (1994)
• De frente al sol as Chole (1992)
• En carne propia as Magdalena Ovalle de Muriel (1990)
• Días sin luna as Lucía (1990)
• La casa al final de la calle as Leonor Altamirano Najera (1989)
• Cuna de lobos as Amelia Larios(1986)
• Vivir un poco as Andrea Santos de Merisa-Oregon (1985)
• Principessa as Fernanda (1984)
• Chispita as Lucía (1983)
• La fiera as La Costeña (1983)
• Vanessa as Luisa (1982)
• El hogar que yo robé as Genoveva (1981)
• Sandra y Paulina as Isabel (1980)
• El amor tiene cara de mujer (1971)

Films

Hollywood

• Bella as the mother (2006)
• Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
• Picking Up the Pieces as Dolores (2000)
• A Walk in the Clouds as María José Aragón (1996)
• The Harvest as Dr. Emma (1993)
• Toy Soldiers as Presidenta López (1984)
• Samson and Delilah as Niji (1984)
• The Evil That Men Do as María (1984)
• Dune as Bene Gesserit Sister (1984)

Mexican cinema

• Cinco de mayo: La batalla (2013)
• El quinto mandamiento (2012)
• Tequila (2011)
• El Atentado (2010)
• Recién Cazado (2010)
• Todos Hemos Pecado (2009)
• Guadalupe (2006)
• La mujer de mi hermano (2005)
• Tres (2005)
• Zapata: El sueño de un héroe as Waitress #1 (2004)
• Desnudos (2004)
• The Crime of Father Amaro as Augustina Sanjuanera (2002)
• ¿Y si Cristóbal despierta? as Mariana (2000)
• El grito as Blanca (2000)
• Crónica de un desayuno as Paloma (1999)
• Sexo, pudor y lágrimas as Carlos' mother (1999)
• Entre la tarde y la noche (1999)
• Fibra óptica as Doña Carmen (1998)
• Ámbar as Adrianina (1997)
• De muerte natural (1996)
• En el aire as Teresa (1995)
• Cilantro y perejil as Teresa (1995)
• Sucesos distantes as Irene Gorenko (1994)
• Novia que te vea as Oshinika's Mother (1993)
• Gertrudis Bocanegra (1992)
• Pueblo de madera as a corner shop owner (1990)
• Goitia, un dios para sí mismo (1988)
• La furia de un dios (1987)
• Lamberto Quintero as María de los Ángeles (1987)
• Sabor a mí" as Ana María (1987)

External links

• Angélica Aragón at the Telenovela Database
• Angélica Aragón at IMDb
• Angélica Aragón- photos